The completion of the internal market continues to require a system of administrative cooperation in the field of excise duties encompassing all aspects of legislation concerning the application of excise duties to the goods referred to in Article 1 of Council Directive 2008/118/EC of 16 December 2008 concerning the general arrangements for excise duty

2. Where the third country concerned has given a legal undertaking to provide the assistance required to gather evidence of the irregular nature of transactions which appear to contravene legislation on excise duties, information obtained under this Regulation may be communicated by the competent authority of a Member State to that third country, in accordance with that Member State’s national law regarding transfers of personal data to third countries, for the purposes of the correct application of excise duties or similar taxes, duties and charges applicable in the third country with the consent of the competent authorities which suppl ...[+++]ied the information, in accordance with their national law.

In the case of exemption from excise duty on goods procured from indigenous sources, it was found that the duty paid on purchases by a non-EOUS unit can be used as a credit for its own future duty liabilities, e.g. towards payment of excise duty on domestic sales (the so-called Cenvat mechanism).

‘intra-Community movement of excisable products’ means the movement between two or more Member States of excisable products under the suspension arrangements for excise duties within the meaning of Title III of Directive 92/12/EEC or of excisable products released for consumption within the meaning of Articles 7 to 10 of Directive 92/12/EEC;

- Customs duties, taxes and (user) Charges ( the application of customs duties, covered by Council Directive 92/12/EEC of 25 February 1992 on the general arrangements for products subject to excise duty and the holding, movement and monitoring of such products [8] and the exemption of aviation fuel from excise duties covered by Council Directive 92/81/EEC of 19 October 1992 on the harmonisation of the structures of excise duties on mineral oils [9])

25. However, a number of Member States (mainly those applying high tax levels) reported that Internet sales companies based in countries with low excise duty levels increasingly sell duty paid products to customers in the higher taxing territory without payment of the appropriate duty in the recipient country.