Council Directive 2003/96/EC restructuring the Community framework for the taxation of energy products and electricity | Energy Taxation Directive | Monti Directive | ETD [Abbr.]

energy tax Directive

Taxation and Business Financing Policy Directorate [ Taxation, Business Financing & Investment Directorate ]

Definition: This block contains a wide variety of disorders that differ in severity and clinical form but that are all attributable to the use of one or more psychoactive substances, which may or may not have been medically prescribed. The third character of the code identifies the substance involved, and the fourth character specifies the clinical state. The codes should be used, as required, for each substance specified, but it should be noted that not all fourth character codes are applicable to all substances. Identification of the psychoactive substance should be based on as many sources of information as possible. These include self-report data, analysis of blood and other body fluids, characteristic physical and psychological symptom ...[+++]s, clinical signs and behaviour, and other evidence such as a drug being in the patient's possession or reports from informed third parties. Many drug users take more than one type of psychoactive substance. The main diagnosis should be classified, whenever possible, according to the substance or class of substances that has caused or contributed most to the presenting clinical syndrome. Other diagnoses should be coded when other psychoactive substances have been taken in intoxicating amounts (common fourth character .0) or to the extent of causing harm (common fourth character .1), dependence (common fourth character .2) or other disorders (common fourth character .3-.9). Only in cases in which patterns of psychoactive substance-taking are chaotic and indiscriminate, or in which the contributions of different psychoactive substances are inextricably mixed, should the diagnosis of disorders resulting from multiple drug use (F19.-) be used. | Modifiers The following fourth-character subdivisions are for use with categories F10-F19: Code Title .0 Acute intoxication A condition that follows the administration of a psychoactive substance resulting in disturbances in level of consciousness, cognition, perception, affect or behaviour, o ...

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endemic conditions associated with environmental iodine deficiency either directly or as a consequence of maternal iodine deficiency. Some of the conditions have no current hypothyroidism but are the consequence of inadequate thyroid hormone secretion in the developing fetus. Environmental goitrogens may be associated.

Definition: A disorder characterized by impairment of memory, learning difficulties, and reduced ability to concentrate on a task for more than brief periods. There is often a marked feeling of mental fatigue when mental tasks are attempted, and new learning is found to be subjectively difficult even when objectively successful. None of these symptoms is so severe that a diagnosis of either dementia (F00-F03) or delirium (F05.-) can be made. This diagnosis should be made only in association with a specified physical disorder, and should not be made in the presence of any of the mental or behavioural disorders classified to F10-F99. The disorder may precede, accompany, or follow a wide variety of infections and physical disorders, both cerebral and syst ...[+++]emic, but direct evidence of cerebral involvement is not necessarily present. It can be differentiated from postencephalitic syndrome (F07.1) and postconcussional syndrome (F07.2) by its different etiology, more restricted range of generally milder symptoms, and usually shorter duration.

While point 152 of the Guidelines may apply only to taxes harmonised by the Energy Tax Directive, Austria argues, Article 25 of the Regulation requires only that the exemption mechanism respect the minimum tax levels set in the Energy Tax Directive, even if it is not a harmonised energy tax.

Chapter 4 of the Guidelines (points 151–159) sets out requirements for State aid granted in the form of reductions of or exemptions from environmental taxes. It provides for two types of assessment. First, if the aid is in the form of a reduction of or exemption from an environmental tax that has been harmonised under Community law, the measure is compatible provided the beneficiaries pay at least the Community minimum tax level set by the Energy Tax Directive (22). If the measure provides for reductions of or exemptions from harmonised environmental taxes that go beyond these minimum tax levels, or reductions of or exemptions from envir ...[+++]onmental taxes that have not been harmonised, the Member State has to provide detailed information on the necessity and proportionality of the measure.

First, it lays down rules for the reduction of energy taxes harmonised under the Energy Tax Directive, which can be declared compatible without further analysis provided the minimum tax levels set out in the Energy Tax Directive are respected.

But even if the exemption mechanism did constitute State aid, Austria considers that it could in any event be declared compatible with the internal market by analogy with Chapter 4 of the Environmental Aid Guidelines, with Article 25 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 800/2008 of 6 August 2008 declaring certain categories of aid compatible with the common market in application of Articles 87 and 88 of the Treaty (General Block Exemption Regulation) (11), and with Article 17 of Council Directive 2003/96/EC of 27 October 2003 restructuring the Community framework for the taxation of energy ...[+++] products and electricity (12) (Energy Tax Directive).