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"Mr President, we are very much in favour of extending to all Member States the derogations granted to some as regards reduced rates of VAT, for example for restaurant services.
We are no less in favour of continuing to maintain reduced rates of VAT for labour-intensive services, which began as an experiment in 1999. In its report evaluating the experience, the Commission was sceptical, particularly with regard to the effects on employment. Finally, it proposes certain continuations, which is positive, but it includes them in a broader plan aimed at eventually doing away with the derogations, which gives rise to pointless discussions.
As elected representatives, we see the benefits of these VAT reductions on the ground. The report provided by France also emphasised this. We therefore believe that they must continue or at least, in the meantime, that the experiment must be continued for several years along the path demonstrated by the Ecofin Council of 25 November, for example for six years, as our rapporteur has just proposed. It also seems to us that in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity this subject should, without discussion, be the competence of the states alone. I will supplement these assessments in my explanation of vote."@en1
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