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Document 52021AE2040

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on ‘Proposal for a Council Directive amending Directive 2006/112/EC as regards exemptions on importations and on certain supplies, in respect of Union measures in the public interest’ (COM(2021) 181 final — 2021/0097 (CNS))

EESC 2021/02040

OJ C 286, 16.7.2021, p. 190–190 (BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, HR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)

16.7.2021   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 286/190


Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on ‘Proposal for a Council Directive amending Directive 2006/112/EC as regards exemptions on importations and on certain supplies, in respect of Union measures in the public interest’

(COM(2021) 181 final — 2021/0097 (CNS))

(2021/C 286/31)

Referral

Council of the European Union, 16.4.2021

Legal basis

Article 113 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union

Section responsible

Economic and Monetary Union and Economic and Social Cohesion

Adopted at plenary

27.4.2021

Plenary session No

560

Outcome of vote

(for/against/abstentions)

220/0/7

Since the Committee has announced its support for taxation rules due to the COVID-19 crisis in its opinion on the Proposal for a Council Directive amending Directive 2011/16/EU to address the urgent need for deferring certain time limits for the filing and exchange of information in the field of taxation due to the COVID-19 pandemic (COM(2020) 197 final — 2020/0081 (CNS)); on the Proposal for a Council Decision amending Directives (EU) 2017/2455 and (EU) 2019/1995 as regards the dates of transposition and application due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 crisis (COM(2020) 198 final — 2020/0082 (CNS)) and on the Proposal for a Council Regulation amending Regulation (EU) 2017/2454 as regards the dates of application due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 crisis (COM(2020) 201 final — 2020/0084 (CNS)) (1), adopted on 10 June 2020 and this amendment to Directive 2006/112/EC (2) does not contain any further content for the EESC to comment on, it decided, at its 560th plenary session of 27 and 28 April 2021 (meeting of 27 April 2021), by 220 votes with 7 abstentions, to issue an opinion endorsing the proposed text and to refer to the position it had taken in the abovementioned document.

Brussels, 27 April 2021.

The President of the European Economic and Social Committee

Christa SCHWENG


(1)  OJ C 311, 18.9.2020, p. 76.

(2)  OJ L 347, 11.12.2006, p. 1.


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