Translation of "To place a wagon out service " (English → French) :

If the ideas set out in Mr Karas's report are put into practice, this will have negative and dangerous repercussions, because the Commission and many of the countries in the Council want the place of consumption to be the determining factor for the provision of services, rather than, as now, the place from where the service is provided.

Therefore, a modernisation of rules on the place of supply of services was inevitable, which was to be carried out in two steps.

35. Welcomes the stabilisation at a reduced level of the expenditure of staff missions between Luxembourg and Brussels due to the transfer of staff, carried out on a consensual basis and with the necessary sensitivity to social issues; notes the proposed merger of the studies/research services currently based in Luxembourg with the committee secretariats to be based in Brussels; calls on the Secretary-General to submit a note on the number of officials concerned in the present DG IV and the proposed solutions (dégagement, redeployment in other departments) for those who, for personal reasons, cannot move to Brussels; points out that t ...[+++]ransfers of this kind can be made only on a voluntary basis and also takes the view that this transfer should not take place unless all the services of DG IV and DG II can be housed in a single building in Brussels and not spread over several temporary buildings;

The Commission services are best placed to carry out this task.

The EC declaration of type conformity (guarantee of production quality), the EC verification, and the EC unit verification may be carried out at the manufacturer's works or any other location if transport to the place of use does not require dismantling of the instrument, if the taking into service at the place of use does not require assembly of the instrument or other technical installation work likely to affect the instrument's performance, and if the gravity value at the place of putting i ...[+++]nto service is taken into consideration or if the instrument's performance is insensitive to gravity variations.

3. In order to avoid double taxation, non-taxation or the distortion of competition the Member States may, with regard to the supply of services referred to in 2 (e) and the hiring out of movable tangible property consider: (a) the place of supply of services, which under this Article would be situated within the territory of the country, as being situated outside the Community where the effective use and enjoyment of the services take place outside the Community;