clearing circuit in the destination country

The Green Paper aims to describe as precisely as possible the challenges faced by the EU health workforce which are common to all Member States: the demography issue (ageing global population and ageing health workforce), which means that there are insufficient numbers of younger people coming through the system to replace those who leave; the diversity of the health workforce; the weak attractiveness of the wide variety of healthcare and public health related jobs to new generations; the migration of health professionals in and out of the EU; the unequal mobility within the EU – and in particular the movement of some health professi ...[+++]onals from poorer to richer countries within the EU, as well as the health brain drain from Third countries.

The United Kingdom and Portugal are now following the growing number of countries (Cyprus, Denmark, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands and Slovakia), which after first raising the retirement age to cover earlier increases in longevity have opted to introduce an explicit link between the pensionable age and future gains in life expectancy.

The cumulative assessment was provisionally considered appropriate in view of the comparable conditions of competition between the imports from these two countries and the like Union product, i.e. through the same sales channels and to the same categories of customers.

3. Recalls that the establishment of a VAT system based on the "origin principle", which implies that transactions between Member States liable to VAT bear the tax charged in the country of origin rather than being zero-rated, remains a long-term solution for combating tax fraud effectively; notes that the "origin principle" would make it unnecessary to exempt from VAT goods traded in the internal market and to tax them subsequently in the country of destination; recalls that in order to be operational, a VAT system based on the "or ...[+++]igin principle" requires the establishment of a clearing system, as originally proposed by the Commission in 1987;