Traduction de «Franchise pour voyageurs » (Français → Anglais) :

Council Directive 69/169/EEC of 28 May 1969 on the harmonisation of provisions laid down by law, regulation or administrative action relating to exemption from turnover tax and excise duty on imports in international travel established a Community system of tax exemptions.

4. The value of the personal luggage of a traveller, which is imported temporarily or is re-imported following its temporary export, and the value of medicinal products required to meet the personal needs of a traveller shall not be taken into consideration for the purposes of applying the exemptions referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2.

TRAVELLERS' ALLOWANCES The Council reached political agreement on: - raising allowances for travellers from third countries from ECU 45 to ECU 175 (and from ECU 23 to 90 for adolescents) and the limits on tax- free purchases in intra-Community travel from ECU 45 to 90; this latter figure could be subject to review in 1995; - allowing Germany to be exempt from application of the new third- country allowances until 1997 in respect of travellers coming from third countries, other than EFTA countries, within which Germany has a common border, and entering German territory by a land border or by a coastal sea route; - allowing Spain to apply, until 31 December 2000, an allowance o ...[+++]f ECU 600 for imports of goods by travellers from the Canary Islands, Ceuta and Melilla entering Spanish tax territory.

The directives on tax-free allowances for travellers are not applicable here since the sums involved are too high.

This decision brings to an end an infringement in that, until 18 March, the Irish authorities refused to grant any allowance to travellers leaving the country for less than 48 hours.

TRAVELLERS' ALLOWANCES The Council turned to the issue of increases in travellers' allowances to see whether unanimous agreement was now possible on the formula which 11 delegations had accepted in December 1992, i.e.: - to increase allowances for travellers coming from third countries from ECU 45 to ECU 175 and limits on tax-free purchases made during intra-Community travel from ECU 45 to ECU 90; - to authorize Spain, until 31 December 1996, to grant travellers from the Canary Islands, Ceuta and Melilla entering the fiscal territory of Spain an allowance of ECU 600 in respect of goods imported.