Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-11-06-Speech-4-117"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-11-06"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Vote (continuation)2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20031106.6.4-117"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-11-06-Speech-4-1072
lpv:speaker	lp:Yves Butel2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; PECH (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Ukraine and the EU-Moldova Parliamentary Cooperation Committees and Delegation for relations with Belarus (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 co-chair; EDD (2002-07-03--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Chasse, Pêche, Nature, Traditions (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Better coordination of the Member States’ taxes on cars may appear necessary, but it must not be the opportunity to put a European tax system in place. Taxation of passenger cars cannot be divorced from a general tax system involving VAT, excise duties and income tax or corporation tax. It constitutes, moreover, an instrument of budget revenue and, as such, comes under the sovereignty of the Member States. Nor am I happy with the environmental approach chosen by the European Commission. Taxing passenger cars at European level, as proposed, seems inappropriate to me because, as a result of persistent lobbying, many sectors that cause a greater amount of pollution are not affected and because the structure of the automobile market is specific to each Member State. There are, for example, small countries and large countries, flat countries and mountainous countries, countries with little in the way of road infrastructure and countries with long traditions of public transport. These are differences specific to each Member State, and they cannot be levelled out all at once through the harmonised taxation of passenger cars."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"(Explanation of vote abbreviated in accordance with Article 137(1) of the Rules of Procedure)"1

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