Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-05-22-Speech-2-402"
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"Anyone who, in the name of subsidiarity, wishes to abolish the minimum tax on alcohol must agree, also in the name of subsidiarity, to allow a limit to be placed on private imports of alcohol. Otherwise, countries with high excise duties will be completely overflowing with cheap, privately imported spirits and have to pay for this in terms of high health care costs. Without import restrictions, it will be the country with the lowest taxes that will force its alcohol policy on all the others.
What is the logic according to which it is possible to take 200 kg of wine, beer and spirits across the EU countries’ borders, but only 15 kg of fresh fish? Moreover, it is absurd to have zero tax on wine when there is tax on beer and spirits. It is even more absurd when Sweden is taken to court for having, as the Commission sees it, favoured the beer sector through its high taxes on wine. The EU is itself distorting the market through its zero tax on wine. Alcohol is not a normal product. To do as the committee does and see this as an internal market issue without taking account of public health is irresponsible and economically unsound."@en1
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