Press Release: Car taxation: infringement procedures against Malta and Romania

The Commission has decided to send to Romania and Malta formal requests to amend their car registration tax rules which discriminate against second-hand car brought from other Member States into these countries. The requests take the form of "letter of formal notice", the first stage of the infringement procedure laid down in Article 226 of the EC Treaty. If the Commission does not receive satisfactory responses from these Member States within two months, it may proceed with the second stage of the said procedure and ultimately bring the cases before the Court of Justice.