On January 13, 2016 MEP Fabio di Masi (Germany/Die Linke) on its website announced that he has filed a law suit against the European Commission at the Court of the European Union for violating EU law when not disclosing documents to the European Parliament’s Special Committee on Tax Rulings and Other Measures Similar in Nature or Effect (TAXE).
Acccording to Mr de Masi a legal study commissioned by GUE/NGL and authored by the Director of the Centre of European Law and Politics at the University of Bremen (Germany), Professor Andreas Fischer-Lescano, and Nele Austermann (University of Bremen) finds that the European Commission violated EU law when not disclosing documents, such as its minutes of the European Council’s Code of Conduct Group on business taxation, and by imposing restrictions on MEPs' access to documents. According to Mr de Masi the study asserts that the Commission has not sufficiently justified the limitations and restrictions it set for MEPs of the TAXE committee requesting access to Council documents when investigating tax rulings and other measures similar in nature or effect that helped multinational corporations avoid paying billions of tax.
For further information we refer to the announcement as published on the website of Mr de Masi, in which one can also find a link to download the report authored by Professor Andreas Fischer-Lescano, and Nele Austermann.
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The announcement is also available in the German language. Attached to the German version of the announcement one can find links to download the report authored by Professor Andreas Fischer-Lescano, and Nele Austermann in the German and the English language. Click here to be forwarded to the German version of announcement as available on the website of Mr. de Masi, which will open in a new window
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