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Der er erklæringen om, at ord ningen bør ændres, men ikke kan ændres ensidigt af Kommissionen.
It claims for example that there is too little research into alcohol in the Member States.
Den skal inddrage budgetmyndigheden i disse drøftelser. Hvis dette ikke sker, vil det i realiteten kvæle vor evne til at garantere netop de programmer, som stats- og regeringscheferne forpligtede sig selv til på topmødet i Cannes.
However, there are few subjects in the world which have been so thoroughly researched as the relationship between people and alcohol.
Men dette er en yderst vigtig betænkning.
This report also lays to rest many myths concerning alcohol.
Det er en betænkning om en beretning fra Kommissionen om lån og garantier i forbindelse med disse lån.
For instance, it is not true that wine is replacing spirits.
Lån, som Fællesskabet yder, hvad enten det er af Kommissionen gennem lånoptagelse og långivning eller af Den Europæiske Investeringsbank, behøver en garanti.
Per capita consumption of wine in France, Germany and Spain is extremely high, but consumption of spirits is also significantly higher than in Sweden, and they have a conespondingly high frequency of alcohol-related illness.
Det har altid været Parlamentet, som institutionerne har måttet henholde sig til.
questions, than for example the C02tax, which has not really managed to take off and generate the appropriate consensus.
Garantier var tidligere fuldstændig og udelukkende i form af en symbolsk opførelse på budgettet.
I believe the background to the attack on Nordic alcohol taxes i$ a very cynical one.
Det var pres fra Parlamentet, som medførte ændringen og indførelsen af en garantifond.
Consumption of alcohol has fallen significantly since 1980 in, for example, France, Spain, Germany and Italy.
Vor argumentation gik til dels på at beskytte fællesskabsbudgettet, navnlig de ikkeobUgatoriske udgifter, mod risikoen for at skuUe dække misligholdte lån.
Awareness of the risks associated with alcohol, of the health issues and of course road safety has contributed to this reduced consumption.
Vi fik denne fond, men garantifondsordningen er ikke helt tilstrækketig, som det fremgår af Kommissionens beretning.
Alcohol producers thus naturally want to increase their markets in countries where consumption remains low.
Der er en række specifikke udtalelser - ikke kritikpunkter, da vi anser os selv for at arbejde i et partnerskab med Kommissionen - med enten beklagelse eller bekymring, og de er indeholdt i første del af beslutningen.
This Parliament, in the cunent draft of the report if not amended, is prepared to contemplate substantial increases in motor fuel excises, especially for environmental reasons; and believes that such a tax regime should never have a lower rate of tax on a fuel that is more polluting.
Som jeg siger i punkt 3, mener vi, at beretningen kun er en beskrivende vurdering uden en passende analyse.
We are calling for a comprehensive tax base with regard to mineral oils, and if there are exclusions such as aviation gas or kerosene or natural gas, the Commission should justify these and explain their effect in terms of the operation of the internal market.
Vi håber, at Kommissionen vil se meget seriøst på vore bemærkninger, tage dem til efterretning og udarbejde en bedre beretning næste gang og i den forbindelse vil erkende det, vi siger i betænkningen, nemlig at den skal se på den ordning, hvorefter den informerer Parlamentet, navnlig når der er risiko for vore garantier.
A fear that we express: if these duties increase and they are to be the counterpart, taking the White Paper on employment growth and competitiveness, of reducing direct taxes on labour, how do we make the interconnection?
Den beskriver lånoptagelses- og långivningstransaktionerne, og den beskriver Den Europæiske Investeringsbanks transaktioner.
We are not trying to export the Swedish model but we should all understand that as far as alcohol is concerned, health and safety must come before market interests.
Enhver, som læser om det omfang, hvori vi er involveret i at dække denne långivning gennem garantier, vil se noget af Den Europæiske Unions økonomiske indvirkning på udviklingen ikke kun i, men navnUg også uden for Fælles-
This Parliament too, Mr President, should act in the spirit of the World Health Organisation.
Nr. 4-488/221 derimod om en virkelig trussel mod EU-budgettet, hvis der ikke nu klart foretages ændringer. Jeg anmoder derfor Kommissionen og Rådet om at forelægge forslag for Parlamentet i denne henseende. Vi har gjort det nødvendige med hr. Tomlinsons betænkning, som vi støtter.
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Papoutsis, medlem af Kommissionen. - (EL) Hr. formand, mine damer og herrer, først og fremmest vil jeg takke ordføreren, hr. Tomlinson, for det fremragende arbejde, han har fremlagt for os, og for de synspunkter, han har givet udtryk, og som Kommissionen i det store og hele kan gå ind for.
The Green Group is entirely in favour of using product taxation to pursue broader objectives, such as public health and environmental protection.
Formålet med den halvårlige beretning om garantier er at informere budgetmyndigheden om udvikUngen med' hen syn til långivningen og ydelse af garantier for lån, som påvirker EU- budgettet.
We consider it quite appro priate for taxation of mineral oils, for example, to be used as an instrument of environmental policy, while taxation of alcohol and tobacco of course can promote health.
Pronk (PPE). - (NL) Hjertelig tak til ordføreren for den gode betænkning, han har udarbejdet.
the dinner but the after-dinner drink there is certainly competition between whisky and wine.
Også beretningen fra Kommissionen om garantier opført i det almindelige bud get er en meget god beretning, som kommer detaljeret ind på situationen i de lande, der er ydet lån til.
I say that there is price-driven tax-distorted competition between different categories of drinks and a zero rate amounts to distorted competition.
Derfor kan vi i og for sig kun have lovord tilovers for denne beretning.
The only fair way is to impose excise rates for alcoholic drinks according to alcohol content.
Den rejser dog spørgsmål med hensyn til garantifondsreformen.
That is what the Commission used to believe.
Garantifondsordningen indebærer nemlig en række store risici.
It used to have an original position of harmonization and it has moved away from that.
Især økonomisk svage eller politisk ustabile lande har svært ved at tilbagebetale deres lån. Det lægger på sigt et stort pres på Unionens budget.
I must also say that the places with whisky distilleries in my area are places where there are no alternative jobs and where remote glens and islands depend economically entirely on that industry.
Af den grund skønner PPE det nødvendigt, at der kreeres nye rammebetingelser med hensyn tU garantifonden.
Our chairman, Mr von Wogau, has just spoken very warmly about the differences among cultures and the various traditions in respect of alcohol.
For det første bør der ske en kraftig forbedring af samarbejdet med Kommissionen og information af Parlamentet ved tildeling af finansiel støtte.
des Places (EDN). - (FR) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, first of all I must thank the rapporteur for his efforts, and also my colleague Philippe Martin for his report on behalf of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development.
For det andet anvendes stadig det efter min mening forkerte retsgrundlag 235 ved tildeling af finansiel støtte til tredjelande.
Despite that, I consider that there are no objective grounds for completely exempting one type of alcohol from excise.
Endelig bør budgetmyndighedens rolle genvurderes.
Excise duties are taxes designed to achieve political objectives.
Europa-Parlamentet må ikke for alvor holdes uden for beslutningsprocessen.
Some of us would like the rates of excise duty to be raised or lowered in order to assist this or that category of economic operator.
Nu, hvor Europa-Parlamentet har for Udt at skulle have sagt om garantirisikoen for budgettet, er dette en uacceptabel og også, finansielt set, meget risiko fyldt situation.
Personally, as a member of the Com mittee on Agriculture, I do not want to take sides in favour of any particular undertaking, but I do want to defend European agriculture as a whole.
Beretningen fremstiller udviklingen i de tilknyttede risici år for år frem til år 2002 på grundlag af de aktiviteter, som Kommissionen har besluttet eller foreslået.
In the case of tobacco there is the strange exception to which Mrs Peijs refened, namely that hand-rolling tobacco is taxed much more lightly.
I øvrigt har erfaringen vist, at denne ordning indtil nu har bidraget til at forene budgetdisciplinen med opretholdelsen af et lånebeløb af størrelsesordenen 2, 3 mia écu om året.
Regarding excise duties in the sector of tobaccos and cigarettes, I personally favour preserving the existing status quo, and I would remind the House that some European agricultural regions depend on tobacco production.
Derfor vü PPE anmode Kommissionen om at kreere nye rammebetingelser til garantifonden. Det ville være optimalt, om denne beretning kunne forelægges Parlamentet inden 1997, idet aUe lån til tredjelande i 1997 som bekendt vil blive sidestillet.
Among mineral oils, there is the case of aviation fuel, kerosene.
Det er et meget godt tidspunkt til at fjerne alle fejl, systemet er behæftet med, således at vi får et rigtig godt system, selvom man må indrømme, at det takket være blandt andre hr. Tomlinsons anstrengelser alligevel er forbedret lidt i forhold til tidligere.
Finally, Mr President, while we are trying to meet the convergence criteria, ought not states still to get their tax revenue from somewhere?
Imidlertid har Kommissionen konstateret, at denne ordning ikke vil muliggøre gennemførelsen af en mere ambitiøs lånepolitik i overensstemmelse med retningslinjerne fra De Europæiske Råd i Cannes og Madrid og heller ikke vil muliggøre en genoptagelse af den makroøkonomiske bistand.
In my opinion excise is a very appropriate source, also from the point of view of maintaining balance in the public finances.
Men det, det ikke gør, er i tilstrækkelig grad at interessere sig for sikkerheden.
So there will be another speaker later on wine.
Desuden undersøgte Kommissionen sammen med Den Europæiske Investeringsbank muligheden af at ændre de gældende detaljer for ydelsen af garanti fra EU-budgettet for lån ydet af EIB til tredjelande.
With regard to the excise duty on wine, spirits and alcoholic beverages, I must remind the House that wine is an agricultural product, not an industrial one, and that consequently the zero rating principle must be maintained, along with the principle of taxation by volume and not by strength, as certain lobbyists for the beer and whisky industries would prefer.
Det eneste rigtige svar ville være en revision af de finansielle overslag.
So, the committee was also divided. I am only going to speak about the whisky situation.
Men da dette åbenbart ikke er muligt, vil Rådet skulle stå til ansvar for, hvis garantirisikoen i de kommende år stiger på EU-budgettets bekostning og der dermed opstår uberegnelige risici for finansieringen af EU's inteme og eksterne politik.
I represent the Highlands and Islands of Scotland and have a huge responsibility in representing the bulk of Scotch whisky in the world although others represent constituencies where whisky is produced.
I september 1995 forelagde vi en beretning for Rådet, med en kopi sendt til formanden og ordføreren for Budgetudvalget, hvori vi foreslår at sænke den samlede dækningsgrad for sikkerhedsstillelse til 75 % for EIB-lån til tredje lande.
As regards mineral oils, the Committee on Agriculture has unanimously adopted the following text, and I quote: 'In view of the ecological benefits and the use of agricultural land for the manufacture of biofuels, calls on the Commission to study a system of taxation that would encourage the use of biofuels.'
For nylig udgav Kommissionen, efter aftale med Den Europæiske Investeringsbank, en ny beretning med nye forslag til ændringer.
At a time when there is talk of reducing agricultural aid, when some farmers, and especially live stock breeders, want to plough up their pastureland in view of the present depressed state of veal and beef production, and when we are in danger of exceeding the European limit, it is necessary to encourage the use of biofuels incorporating agricultural products.
Denne beretning konkluderer, at en sænkning af den samlede dækningsgrad for sikkerheds stillelse til 50 % harmonerer med opretholdelsen af den høje kreditværdighed, som EIB har haft indtil nu.
In France, for example, in view of the disastrous beef and veal situation, it is now estimated that we could exceed the limit by 300 000 hectares.
Alene af denne grund er en større gennemsigtighed særdeles påkrævet i forbindelse med långivning såvel som misUgholdelser.
In conclusion, ladies and gentlemen, I ask you, through your vote, to develop a system of indirect taxation that benefits European agriculture as a whole.
Det, som skatteyderen skal bøde for, må ikke gøre krav på hemmeligholdelse.
Our international agreements allow it, and we must have the political will to do it.
Derudover støtter jeg opfordringen til Kommissionen om at foretage en mere fleksibel vurdering af garantifonden, som i højere grad koncentrerer sig om de konkrete risici i forbindelse med de ydede kreditter.
In my 20 years in this Parliament I have seen whisky being treated unfairly time after time, the first time being the absurd proposal by a previous Commission that whisky labels should contain instructions as to use foUowed by last date for human consumption.
Jeg mener, at det fremgår klart af Tomlinson-betænknin-gen, at der ikke kun er tale om et teknisk problem, men
I do not know how much drinking is done in Scotland but I would assure him that if he concentrated not so much on
I øvrigt er det Kommissionens og Den Europæiske Investeringsbanks opfattelse, at risikoen kan fordeles mellem EU og EIB inden for en bestemt gruppe programmer.
Metten (PSE). - (NL) This report provides an occasion for Parliament to provide its view on the harmonisation of excise duties, without having to go into details on the various rates.
Papoutsis med ånden i konklusionerne fra De Europæiske Råd i Cannes og Madrid.
Well, you only need to cross a bridge from New York to New Jersey to know that the tax systems are not the same, and yet an American market exists.
betingelser.
That is a pity.
Tit er dette ikke nødvendigt eUer endog skadeligt.
I will keep myself to the former. The question now is this: are excise duties a good way of providing more income which would make it possible for governments to reduce tax on labour?
Det europæiske marked lever tværtimod af konkur rencen mellem systemerne.
A reversal of this trend should be our first objective.
Vort mål skal derfor ikke være en absolut tilpasning, men en tilnærmelse af punktafgiftssatserne.
But capital in particular is mobile and elusive.
Denne skal dog være tilstrækkelig til at eliminere de nuværende fordrejninger.
Can excise duties contribute to this reversal?
Kommissionen vil tage de synspunkter alvorligt i betragtning, som Europa-Parlamentet giver udtryk for, og selv kan jeg love, at Kommissionen vil holde formanden og ordføreren for Budgetudvalget underrettet om sagens udvikling inden for rammerne af de mujigheder, den fleksibilitet og den tillid, der kendetegner forholdet mellem Europa-Parlamentet og Kommissionen.
I should think they can. Paragraph 4 on the upward harmonisation of tobacco prices; paragraph 20b on a considerable increase in the minimum prices for engine fuels; paragraph 20c on the internalisation of externals costs; and paragraph 20f on an all-encompassing taxation basis for mineral oils and their competing products all clearly point in the right direction.
Tomlinson (PSE), ordfører. - (EN) Hr. formand, jeg takker kommissær Papoutsis for hans svar.
But there seems to be a taboo in this Parliament on increasing alcohol prices, and particularly on the introduction of a minimum excise duty on wine.
Vi tilstræber, at forskellene mellem punktafgiftssatserne i de forskellige medlemslande i det mindste ikke bliver større.
If you wanted harmonization in the name of market necessities and the single market, you should have started with the taxes or levies which created the greatest distortions.
Spørgsmålet om en harmonisering af punktafgifterne har imidlertid en kulturel dimension.
If it was absolutely necessary to harmonize VAT -600 thousand million francs in the case of my own country - or if it was necessary to harmonize excise duty, virtually insignificant in the case of my own country, then a fortiori it would first have been necessary for us to harmonize the social security contributions - 1.4 billion francs in my own country, twice as much as the VAT which you felt it absolutely essential to harmonize. But no!
Smag, skik og brag, livsstil og social adfærd som en del af kulturen i et land skal og må ikke påvirkes af en afgiftsharmonisering.
The Council of Ministers, in its great wisdom - we had a Prime Minister at that time, Mr Bérégovoy, who died of grief as a result - finally accepted the zero rate.
Forslaget om en garantifond var et vedvarende krav fra Europa-Parlamentets side. Det blev fulgt.
In the few seconds remaining to me, I would like to try to make you understand what you can't understand.
Desværre blev rådet ikke fulgt med hensyn til den sats, som vi sagde, at fonden skulle forhøjes til, og det er derfor, vi har de finansielle vanskeligheder, som min betænkning henviser til.
Just for once, you can do a service to Europe as a whole: cany out the necessary tax reform, especially as regards unemployment, and I'm not talking about VAT, I'm not talking about excise duties.
Hvad det betyder, vil jeg geme belyse ud fra et eksempel, måske også ud fra en kritik af eksisterende opfattelser: Der er jo den almindeüg udbredte opfattelse, at alkoholholdige drikkevarer konkurrerer meget direkte med hinanden.
Coming from the Netherlands, where even mineral water has an excise duty, this does seem to me to be somewhat incredible.
Jeg har altid betvivlet det og engang drøftet det med en skotsk kollega.
What also bothers me is that this report so clearly bears the vestiges of specific lobby activists.
Jeg sagde til ham, at han kunne da med den allerbedste vilje ikke sige, at whisky og vin konkurrerer direkte med hinanden, for når vi sammen spiser til middag eller aften, så drikker vi jo vin, vi vU jo ikke drikke whisky til maden!
Apart from the paragraph about the zero rate for wine, I will take the proposals for tax concessions for shag, small distillers and biofuels.
Dertil svarede han: »I Skotland gør vi det hver dag.« På baggrund heraf ser man, hvor forskeUige vanerne er.
If we want to stimulate the use of certain products by lower taxes, I am aware of more useful and favourable products.
Der er en række andre aspekter, der gør sig gældende i forbindelse med denne betænkning: Således har de produkter, som det her drejer sig om, også skadelige virkninger.
Allow this continent to have a very low rate of direct taxation, or better still none at all!
Med punktafgiftssatserne øves der indflydelse herpå.
If you had the intelligence to get rid of income tax in this continent, you would be doing it a service which would even enable you to get rid of unemployment.
Efter min opfattelse kan en harmonisering af punktafgiftssatserne kun være vellykket, - hvis der også foretages en harmonisering af afgiftssatsernes struktur.
So the best thing we can do tomonow is to vote with my group against large parts of this report.
Dette skal ledsages af yderligere foranstaltninger til for bedring af samarbejdet mellem myndighederne i EU-medlemsstaterne.
As far as I am concerned, we could reduce the contents of this report merely to the paragraphs on the upwards harmonisation and the widening of the tax basis.
von Wogau (PPE), ordfører. - (DE) Hr. formand, mine damer og herrer, den foreliggende betænkning om tilnærmelse af punktafgiftssatserne i Den Europæiske Union består af tre dele.
Martinez (NI). - (FR) Mr President, on behalf of those who have lived through the excise duty saga in this Parliament, let me say that we are finally reaching a happy ending.
Som formand for Udvalget om Økonomi, Valutaspørgsmål og Industripolitik forelægger jeg den samlede betænkning.
We experienced the late 1980s, when Mr Patterson - who is no longer among us - used to explain to us that in the end we would have to base taxation on alcoholic strength.
Miller (PSE). - (EN) Hr. formand, jeg er helt på det rene med, at spørgsmålet om punktafgifter gennem årene har delt Parlamentet, ikke i poütisk henseende, men i geografisk henseende.
Lulling (PPE). - (DE) Mr President, naturally I do not agree with Mr Martinez that we should not levy any more direct taxes, but that is his problem in France. In my view there is at this time no need to act with regard to the approximation of excise duties on tobacco, alcohol and mineral oils.
Debatten er foregået mellem de vinproducerende regioner og de ikke-vinproducerende regioner.
The package of measures to harmonize excise duties put together in Luxembourg in 1992 so that the single market could enter into force on 1 January 1993 is not in need of reform, for the single market is not working badly at all, as incidentally has been confirmed in reports by experts.
For en tilnærmelse af punktafgiftssatserne på de nævnte områder i Den Europæiske Union er det et afgørende kriterium: alvorlige fordrejninger af eller hindringer for varebevægelserne i Fællesskabet.
We all know what the initial situation was: a tax of 18 francs per litre of wine in the United Kingdom and Ireland, about 15 francs in Denmark, 0 francs in the majority of Meditenanean countries, and in France a mere 22 centimes per litre of wine, which was a simple marketing tax.
En manglende harmonisering betyder en fordrejning af konkurrencen og afskærmning af markeder. Førstnævnte fører til protektionisme og hindrer de frie varebevægelser.
In other words, Mr President - you are Portuguese and I, since my name is Martinez, am French - in all the producing countries and in the majority of consumer countries, excise duty was at zero.
Sidstnævnte fører til pris diskrimination mellem markederne og negerer princippet om det ene marked for en vare. Men harmonisering er ikke - det vil jeg geme understrege - nogen værdi i sig selv.
But that took no account of what can fairly be called the European Commission's neurosis - its standardization neurosis.
Det drejer sig ikke om overalt i Europa at skabe kunstigt lige
The European Commission believes that there can be no single market
Da jeg påtog mig at udarbejde denne betænkning, forsøgte jeg at undgå de gamle argumenter og at tage fat på spørgsmålet ud fra et andet perspektiv.
Of course there are always people in this House who believe they can carry out health policy by imposing exaggerated excise duties, especially on the consumption of tobacco and alcohol.
Jeg mener ikke, at punktafgifter udelukkende skal ses som en indtægtskilde, men også som et jobskabende instrument.
Tobacco products are made from the agricultural product called the tobacco plant. Tens of thousands of jobs in agriculture and industry depend on this branch of production.
Men frem for alt bør den altoverskyggende prioritet være at gennemføre et retfærdigt afgiftssystem, hvor der ikke er nogen konkur rencefordrejning mellem de alkoholholdige drikkevarer.
We cannot tolerate tobacco-growing and even give it a costly organization of the market within the common agricultural policy, only to penalize the tobacco produced with taxes, and in particular to expose
Jeg nævner kort modsætningerne i form af de spørgsmål, der,er rejst.
But in practice what is involved is politicians and policy-makers seeking maximum revenues to be able to provide their .national treasuries with sufficient resources. sources.
Den Europæiske Fælles Akt fastsatte princippet om harmonisering af de indirekte skatter i Den Europæiske Union.
Much has aheady been said about the differences in excise duties between the Member States.