Press Release: Car taxation: infringement procedures against Greece, the Netherlands and Poland

The European Commission on 7 July 2005 decided to send Greece and the Netherlands formal requests to amend their car registration taxation rules. In addition, the Commission has decided to send Poland a formal request for information concerning the excise duty that Poland applied to cars when first registered in Poland. The excise duty rate increased according to the age of cars so that higher tax rates were applied only to imported second-hand cars.