Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-09-04-Speech-1-102"
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"Mr President, let us not kid ourselves. The report we have before us clearly addresses the issue of taxation. Whether a report deals with tax structures – which is the case here – or tax levels, it is not a competence of the European Union and these discussions should not, in my opinion, be taking place here. As with many other areas of business we debate, I fear that this would only be the thin end of the wedge in terms of EU interference with taxation: further treaty creep would most probably follow. In my opinion, sovereign Member States should be free to set their own criteria and levels of taxation, and not have the EU dictate to them. In that I agree wholly with Mrs Doyle.
However, I have to say I am pleased to see that Parliament is addressing an issue which the Commission has failed even to acknowledge: that of vintage vehicles. They must be excluded from the provisions of this directive and I personally will support any amendments to this end.
We all want to see cleaner vehicles on our roads. Indeed, in the UK we are moving to a car-tax structure based on emissions levels. However, harmonisation of tax structures is not the way to achieve this: better design, cleaner fuels and research into alternative fuels are the way forward, not a half-baked attempt to extend the competence of the EU into tax."@en1
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