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". – I would like to reply to Mr Bowe's very understandable question by firstly saying that I recognise the problem, but that on the other hand we should welcome the sale of goods through the Internet. In itself it is a welcome phenomenon of the internal market and therefore we should try to further such commerce. The problem then arises of the payment of VAT and excise duties, and thus the problem to which Mr Bowe referred. As I said earlier, we cannot really propose a useful course of action until and unless we have analysed the situation and that analysis is based on the investigations of Member States into the size of the problem. Only then, when we have that analysis, can we propose something useful.
Mr Bowe will be interested to know that Member States will be gathering details until July of this year, so in a few months' time the intelligence ought to have been gathered and then the Commission can propose a useful course of action – but only if it is decided that there is a distortion of the internal market; and secondly, of course, we want to target only those commercial consignments which really present a problem. After all, if one asks people to comply with certain requirements, it needs to be checked that these are correct and this implies a cost for the governments concerned; that is basically the reason for the
rule. There may be exceptions and it may quite possibly be that Mr Bowe's constituents form such an exception, but I would ask Mr Bowe to give us until the end of June or July of this year, and then we will come back to the matter if Mr Bowe so desires."@en1
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