Commission Looking Into Drinks Pack Taxes

摘要

The Article 21 meeting last month heard that DG Enterprise is investigating the internal market problems faced by beverage cans and bottles at borders within the EU. As promised in 2006, DG Enterprise is working on a communication on beverage packaging, deposit systems and free movement of goods. "The Communication should be ready before the summer," the official told EE&PL. Added to that DG Environment told the committee it had contracted a consultant (Arcadis) to carry out a study on the implementation of packaging's essential requirements in the member states. "The details of the study still have to be arranged but the idea is to find out how companies putting packaging on the market prove they comply with packaging's essential requirement," the Commission official told EE&PL.