CELEX: 51990PC0076
Language: en
Date: 1990-02-22
Title: AMENDMENT TO THE PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL DIRECTIVE AMENDING DIRECTIVE 69/169/EEC TO INCREASE IN REAL TERMS THE TAX PAID ALLOWANCES IN INTRA-COMMUNITY TRAVEL

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
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                                                 Amendment t o t h e
                                                   Proposal f o r a
                                                COUNCIL DIRECTIVE
            amending D i r e c t i v e 69/169/EEC t o increase i n r e a l terms the tax
                         paid allowances i n intra-Community t r a v e l
              (presented by the Commission pursuant t o t h e t h i r d paragraph
                                   of A r t i c l e 149 of t h e EEC T r e a t y )
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                           EXPLANATORY MEMQRANPJM
On 26 July 1989 the Commission presented to the Council a proposal for a
Directive amending Directive 69/169/EEC to increase in real terms the tax-
paid allowances in intraKJomrnunity travel.1
The Economic and Social Committee delivered a favourable opinion on this
proposal on 18 October 1989;2 Parliament, while approving the principle
of the proposal, Included in its opinion of 22 November 19893 two
amendments whose purpose is to indicate clearly that the import
restrictions provided for in the Directive will be progressively
dismantled, until they are completely lifted on 1 January 1993.
The Commission has accepted these amendments.
 1  0CM(89)331 SYN 205; OJ C 245, 16.9.1989, p.5.
 2 OJ C
 3 OJ C
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Amendments to the proposal for a Council Directive
Directive 69/169/EBC to increase in real terms the tax paid allowances in
intra-^ommunity travel
(presented by the Commission in accordance with Article 149(3) of the EEC
Treaty)
              Title                                     EL£Le.
                                          The title of the proposal to read
                                          as follows:
Proposal for a Council Directive          Proposal for a Council Directive
amending Directive 69/169/EEC to          amending Directive 69/169/EBC so
increase in real terms the tax            as progressively to dismantle the
paid allowances in intra-                 restrictions on tax paid
Cammunity travel                          allowances in intra-Commuriity
                                           travel
                Preamble, Article 1 and Article 2 unchanged
                                          Article 3 becomes Article 4.
                                          A new Article 3 is inserted, as
                                          follows:
                                                      Article 3
                                          On 1 January 1993 the limits
                                          referred to in Article 2,
                                          column II of Article 4(1),
                                          Article 5 and Article 7 of
                                          Directive 69/169/EEC shall be
                                          abolished.
                         REST OF THE TEXT UNCHANGED
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Cette proposition est présentée suite aux amendements formulés par le
Parlement européen et constitue un élément de réalisation de l'Europe
sans frontières telle que définie par l'Acte Unique. L'impact sur la
compétitivité et l'emploi dans la Communauté est négligeable.
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