Directorate-General Taxation and Customs Union (TAXUD) - Montesquieu Institute

The Directorate-General Taxation and Customs Union has to manage, defend and develop the customs unon as an essential part of securing the outer borders of the European Union.

The main tasks are:

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  to eliminate fiscal obstacles that hinder trade between member states
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  to actively engage in international developments in the field of customs and taxes
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  to encourage cooperation between member states to combat fraud
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  to maintain contact with concerned parties

position	first name	surname
Director-General	Heinz	Zourek
Assistant of the Director-General	S.	Mail Fouilleul

afd	section name	first name	surname
A	Douanebeleid, wetgeving, douanetarief	Miroslaw	Zielinski
B	Veiligheid en beveiliging, handelsfacilitering en internationale coördinatie	Antonis	Kastrissianakis
C	Indirecte belastingen en fiscaal beheer	Manfred	Bergmann
D	Directe belastingen, belastingcoördinatie, economische analyse en evaluatie	Philip	Kermode
R	Middelen	Marinus	De Graaff

Er zijn 179 voorstellen voor wetgeving en andere juridische instrumenten van dit Directoraat-Generaal in onderhandeling bij de Raad en het Europees Parlement.

Date	Title
17.05.2013	Position of the Council on the adoption of a Regulation concerning customs enforcement of intellectual property rights.
	Communication com(2013)282
16.05.2013	Objection of the Commission to a request by Germany to be allowed to continue to derogate from article 193 of the VAT Directive.
	Communication com(2013)283
14.05.2013	EU position on the proposal to amend the Customs Convention on the International Transport of goods under cover of TIR carnets (TIR Convention 1975).
	Decision com(2013)276
25.04.2013	Amendment of Regulation (EU) No 1344/2011 suspending the autonomous Common Customs Tariff duties on certain agricultural, fishery and industrial products.
	Regulation com(2013)237
23.04.2013	Amendment of Regulation (EU) No 7/2010 opening and providing for the management of autonomous tariff quotas of the Union for certain agricultural and industrial products.
	Regulation com(2013)227

Er zijn 166 wetten en andere juridische instrumenten van de Raad en het Europees Parlement, eerder voorgesteld door dit Directoraat-Generaal, die momenteel in Nederland worden geïmplementeerd.

Date	Title
30.01.2013	Authorisation of France to apply reduced levels of taxation to petrol and gas oil used as motor fuels in accordance with Article 19 of Directive 2003/96/EC.
	Decision com(2013)22
17.01.2013	Authorisation of France to apply a reduced rate of taxation to unleaded petrol used as motor fuel and consumed in Corsican departments.
	Decision com(2013)8
30.11.2012	Amendment of Implementing Decision 2009/1008/EU authorising Latvia to extend the application of a measure derogating from Article 193 of the VAT Directive.
	Decision com(2012)666
16.11.2012	Authorisation of Slovenia to apply a special measure derogating from Article 287 of the VAT Directive.
	Decision com(2012)667
14.11.2012	Authorisation of Belgium to apply a special measure derogating from Article 285 of the VAT Directive.
	Decision com(2012)654

Er zijn ten minste 538 rechtsgeldige wetten en andere juridische instrumenten die eerder door dit Directoraat-Generaal zijn voorgesteld.

Date	Title
06.03.2013	Authorisation of the Czech Republic and Poland to apply special measures derogating from Article 5 of the VAT Directive.
	Decision com(2013)116
12.02.2013	Authorisation of Latvia to derogate from Article 26(1)(a) and Articles 168 and 168a of the VAT Directive.
	Decision com(2013)68
11.01.2013	Waiver from the requirement to submit entry and exit summary declarations for Union goods that are moved across the Neum corridor.
	Regulation com(2013)1
17.12.2012	Authorising the Netherlands to apply a measure derogating from Article 193 of the VAT Directive.
	Decision com(2012)766
23.10.2012	Authorisation of Bulgaria and Romania to apply measures derogating from Article 5 of the VAT Directive.
	Decision com(2012)611