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Welcome visitor! [ About ] The Interest Groups that are presented in the following table are accessible to you. The authorization is granted through a username and a password which are requested by the system when you click on a specific interest group. In order to become a member (i.e. obtain a username and a password) you should read the information supplied for each interest group and then follow the subscription instructions. The information is available by clicking on the information icon (i) located on the right side of each interest group name.

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Group   Description
Consultation on Double Tax Conventions and the Internal Market: factual examples of double taxation cases i This interest group was migrated to the new CIRCABC site and is no more usable on the CIRCA platform. Please follow this link to access the new group.
Please note that if you were using an account from the @circa domain, your login and password are not valid for CIRCABC. Please follow this link: How to get your password to get more information on how to get your new credentials.
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Consultation on Double Tax Conventions and the Internal Market - factual examples of double taxation cases. Contributions received.
Consultation on financial sector taxation i This interest group was migrated to the new CIRCABC site and is no more usable on the CIRCA platform. Please follow this link to access the new group.
Please note that if you were using an account from the @circa domain, your login and password are not valid for CIRCABC. Please follow this link: How to get your password to get more information on how to get your new credentials.
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Consultation on financial sector taxation
Consultation on Taxation of cross border interest and royalty payments between associated companies i Consultation on Taxation of cross border interest and royalty payments between associated companies: replies received
Consultation on the review of the customs legislation on enforcement of intellectual property rights i This interest group was migrated to the new CIRCABC site and is no more usable on the CIRCA platform. Please follow this link to access the new group.
Please note that if you were using an account from the @circa domain, your login and password are not valid for CIRCABC. Please follow this link: How to get your password to get more information on how to get your new credentials.
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TAXUD:Consultation on the review of the customs legislation on enforcement of intellectual property rights
Public consultation "Green paper on the Future of VAT" i Public consultation "Green paper on the Future of VAT"
Public consultation dividends taxation i This interest group was migrated to the new CIRCABC site and is no more usable on the CIRCA platform. Please follow this link to access the new group.
Please note that if you were using an account from the @circa domain, your login and password are not valid for CIRCABC. Please follow this link: How to get your password to get more information on how to get your new credentials.
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Public consultation dividends taxation: replies received
TARIC and Quota data and information i This interest group was migrated to the new CIRCABC site and is no more usable on the CIRCA platform. Please follow this link to access the new group.
Please note that if you were using an account from the @circa domain, your login and password are not valid for CIRCABC. Please follow this link: How to get your password to get more information on how to get your new credentials.
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This group provides information and downloadable data, which are extracted from the Taric database and the quota database. It is held by Unit A5 of DG Taxation and Customs Union. It is public and not password-protected. No registration is mandatory. However you may also sign up, which will guarantee being informed of the updates when they are published.

TARIC: Tariff data and the nomenclature files are updated every month. Descriptive data (e.g.: footnotes) are updated every 6 months. All data reflect always the situation on the 1st day of the month and are provided by default in English. The nomenclature is by default in English, French and German and, twice a year, in all official languages (except Maltese and Gaelic, which are not included in the TARIC).

Quota: The Commission’s Directorate General for Taxation and Customs Union, in co-operation with the customs administrations of the Member States, is in charge of the treatment of EU tariff quotas managed following the chronological order of dates of customs declarations (the so-called “first-come first-served” method). (Article 308a of the Implementing Provisions of the EU Customs Code.) In order to ensure maximum transparency, it has been decided to publish on a weekly basis a consolidated report on the use of these tariff quotas for the entire European Union in an Excel format. Usage of "First Come First Served" quotas is published on a weekly base.

For more details, click on name of the group to go to its home page. Click on Library in the top tool bar and read the explanation files.