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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2006-06-15"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Protection of the Communities' financial interests (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"hu"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20060615.4.4-025"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2006-06-15-Speech-4-0262
lpv:speaker	lp:Béla Glattfelder2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation for relations with Mercosur (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 member; INTA (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; CONT (2005-12-01--2006-09-06)3 unknown; Fidesz-Magyar Polgári Szövetség (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; EPP-ED (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2004-09-15--2007-03-28)3 substitute; AGRI (2004-07-22--2007-01-14)3 substitute; PECH (2004-07-22--2007-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the report addresses the issue of cigarette smuggling comprehensively. It is very important to fight against cigarette smuggling, because it does not only endanger our financial interests, but consumer health, too. Smuggling poses a particularly serious problem in Hungary, because taxes are significantly higher than in neighbouring non-EU states. By now, this has resulted in a 25% increase in the market of untaxed cigarette products, causing huge damage to the Hungarian budget. Cigarettes are smuggled from Ukraine, Romania and other Balkan states. I wish to mention emphatically that duty free shops are operating on the Romanian side of the Hungarian-Romanian border, where travellers can purchase cigarettes to bring them in duty free, often in order to sell them in Hungary and other European Union Member States. In view of the imminent accession of Romania, the Romanian Government should close down these duty free shops immediately. However, smuggling will continue to be a problem even after the accession of Romania to the European Union, because Romania was granted transitional exemption in order to reach minimum tax levels; this means that we will have to monitor continuously whether Romania is able to enforce the excise regulations of the European Union, and whether it is able to prevent smuggling to other Member States, such as neighbouring Hungary. Obviously this does not affect tobacco products only; it is also an important issue for the market of alcoholic beverages, due to the disorganisation of the Romanian market and the transitional exemption."@en1

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