Traduction de «groupe de travail eco-taxe » (Français → Anglais) :

a working group, operating in conjunction with the Thematic Strategy on the Sustainable Use and Management of Natural Resources, with a view to identifying environmentally harmful subsidies on the one hand and environmentally beneficial taxes on resources on the other;

The rapporteur is further of the opinion that a strategy to shift tax from labour towards environmental use should be pursued more vigorously in the European Union and that the Working Committee settled by the President Romano Prodi on European tax should take into account the hypothesis of using energy taxation as a future resource of EU budget.

As this Communication does not discuss policy measures affecting labour demand, the following measures only reflect those implemented by Member States aimed at influencing labour supply: (i) more favourable tax treatment for older workers deciding to prolong their working life (Spain); (ii) reform of the housing taxes not to penalise the entry in the labour market, namely of low income households, and total exemption for recipients of the RMI (France); and (iii) partial reduction or exemption of social security contributions paid by targeted groups of employees such as those working in painful conditions, disabled, etc (France, Portuga ...[+++]l).

As this Communication does not discuss policy measures affecting labour demand, the following measures only reflect those implemented by Member States aimed at influencing labour supply: (i) more favourable tax treatment for older workers deciding to prolong their working life (Spain); (ii) reform of the housing taxes not to penalise the entry in the labour market, namely of low income households, and total exemption for recipients of the RMI (France); and (iii) partial reduction or exemption of social security contributions paid by targeted groups of employees such as those working in painful conditions, disabled, etc (France, Portuga ...[+++]l).

This may mean finding alternative forms of taxation and one possibility might be the energy tax already suggested by the Commission Young people need to be better equipped for life on the labour market.

To some delegations it is decisive that the tax will only apply above a certain level of emissions related to the EC average; NOTES the progress made in the Ad Hoc Working Party on the Commission's proposal for a carbon/energy tax, and that a decision on a fiscal instrument of this nature will need inter alia to define the base for the calculation of the tax; PLEDGES its commitment to the rapid adoption of the proposals for the SAVE directive and ALTENER programme of the Community, and URGES the European Parliament to forward its opinion on these proposals before the meeting of the Council (Energy) in June 1993; STRESSES the importance of joint efforts and effective measures on the part of industrialized countries to combat climate chang ...[+++]e and therefore AGREES that the Community will also rapidly take an initiative in the OECD framework in order to promote the use of fiscal instruments with a view to an effective and coordinated effort to reduce CO2 emissions, consistent with the Community's own strategy; that at the same time it will continue a constructive dialogue with its other trading partners, energy producers and developing countries; WELCOMES in this context the US administration's proposal for new energy taxes as an important contribution which, together with the tax initiatives of the other OECD countries in this field, helps to meet the Community's demand that the effects on competitiveness of any corresponding tax initiative by the Community be reduced; URGES the Presidency to establish a basis for a decision on a fiscal instrument with a view to accelerating the work in the Council (ECOFIN).