Ursprünglich sollte die Duty Free Regelung bereits mit der Errichtung des EU-Binnenmarktes zum 1. Junuar 1993 auslaufen. Um den betroffenen Unternehmen eine Anpassung an die geänderte steuerliche Situation zu gewähren, wurde eine Übergangsregelung mit Ablauf 30. Juni 1999 geschaffen. Gegen...

There are three approaches to deal with tax incentives within common markets: permit them, limit them, or harmonize them. Broadly speaking, the United States (U.S.) follows the first approach, the European Union (EU) adopts the second, and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) pursues the third by...

This article discusses the case law of the European Court of Justice concerning the compatibility with EU law of territorial tax incentives adopted by Member States from a legal institutional and policy perspective. The author in particular focuses on the potential justifications under EU...

After Brexit, legislators, practitioners, and legal scholars in the EU have to reconsider what may be legally needed to support business increasingly conducted in or from the EU rather than from London. Practically, practitioners and legal scholars will have to ask whether and to what extent a...

On 16th November 2009, SUERF, CEPS and the Belgian Financial Forum coorganized a conference "Crisis management at cross-roads" in Brussels. All papers in the present volume are based on contributions at the conference and the SUERF Annual Lecture which followed the event.

The global financial crisis has revealed the weaknesses of the European financial market, which triggered the European Union (EU) work on further integration of this market. The aim of this article is to present the direction of changes concerning the integration of the EU financial market....