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Austria loses waste tax discrimination case

ENDS Europe
Thursday 8 November 2007

The European court of justice has confirmed that Austria was wrong to overrule a local authority which granted a tax exemption on fees for treating imported Italian waste derived from contaminated land. The case was brought against the federal government by the Frohnleiten municipality to an Austrian court, which in turn referred it to Luxembourg.

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The Danish government presents the programme of the Danish Presidency of the Council of the European Union ‘Europe at work'

Denmark took over the presidency of the EU on 1 January.

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