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". – First of all I should like to thank Mr Vatanen for his very kind remarks. I feel the weight of all those motorists in Finland on my shoulders – a very heavy load indeed.
One complicating factor is that this is an area which has not yet been harmonised in the European Union. The Commission's legal basis for its actions is Article 90 of the Treaty on the one hand, which prohibits tax discrimination, and on the other hand two directives adopted in 1983. Article 90 gives the Court of Justice the opportunity for abundant jurisprudence. Since interpretations of the judgments of the Court are not always unanimous, it is time to create a synthesis of all the various interpretations in order to determine clearly our future action.
That need for a synthesis is one of the reasons that led me to include in the Commission's working programme for this year a communication on motor vehicle taxation. It is my intention that this communication, which I hope will appear around the end of this year or the beginning of next year, will cover all the problems in connection with vehicle taxation and vehicle pricing, so that we can take a broader approach to them and settle the problem in Finland to which Mr Vatanen has referred. I hope that will be to his satisfaction."@en1
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