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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2004-12-14"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Explanations of vote2
dcterms:Language	"pt"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20041214.8.2-134"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-12-14-Speech-2-1352
lpv:speaker	lp:José Ribeiro E Castro2
lpv:spokenAs	member; DEVE (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 unknown; Coligaçao Força Portugal (PPD/PSD.CDS-PP) (2004-07-20--2007-11-22)3 substitute; IMCO (2004-07-22--2007-01-14)3 member; DROI (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 member; EPP-ED (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	". The adoption by the Council, on 22 October 1999, of Directive 1999/85/EC amending Directive 77/88/EEC, was intended to foster the experimental scheme of reduced VAT rates for labour intensive services, thereby enabling those Member States wishing to do so to test the effects of reduced VAT on those sectors in terms of creating jobs and combating the parallel economy. The experiment was eventually the subject of an assessment report that revealed that it is not possible to establish a direct correlation between reducing VAT rates and combating unemployment and the parallel economy. Reducing VAT rates does not strike me as the best or most appropriate way of boosting the labour market and reducing the parallel economy. Given that nothing, however, was laid down – the experiment was due to finish definitively on 31 December 2003 – regarding the possibility of the new Member States applying reduced rates, the situation had become unfair. As I feel that the new Member States should be entitled to the same opportunity, I voted in favour."@en1

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