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"en.20111201.35.4-275-500"2
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"Article 349 of the Treaty authorises the Member States of France, Spain and Portugal to provide for a difference between the taxation of local products and the taxation of products from other Member States. This was introduced on the basis of the perceived permanent handicaps that affect the economic and social conditions of these ‘outermost regions’, as they are defined in the Treaty. This latest Article 349 measure concerns rum produced in French Overseas Departments and sold on the French mainland with a reduced rate of excise duty. The reduction is limited to an annual quota of 108 000 hectolitres of pure alcohol. The Commission’s proposal is to extend this special tax exemption for two additional years until December 2013, and to increase the annual quota concerned to 125 000 hl. I have voted against such Article 349 measures, on the basis that the Treaty provision grants an unfair advantage to the three Member States concerned, even though all Member States have their own peripheral regions and yet cannot benefit from such exemptions from harmonising Community provisions on VAT."@en1
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