Translation of "translation of non-livraison transitoire " (French → English) :

Under those arrangements, supplies of investment gold were in principle subject to VAT, but some Member States were authorised on a transitional basis to exempt them.

Under those arrangements, supplies of investment gold were in principle subject to VAT, but some Member States were authorised on a transitional basis to exempt them.

However, in order to limit the main dangers of distortion of competition arising from differences in VAT rates during the transitional period, the rate applied would be that of the country of destination for: - 2 - - purchases of new private vehicles (cars and motorcycles), which would be taxed in the country of registration; - purchases made from companies specializing in mail-order sales, which would be taxed in the country of destination (b) For transactions between taxable persons (generally firms), the transitional arrangements ...[+++]would take the following form: - delivery of goods to another Community country would be exempt from VAT; - purchase of goods in the country of destination would be subject to VAT and the tax would be payable by the purchaser.

Whereas intra-Community acquisitions of a certain value by exempt persons or by non-taxable legal persons and certain intra-Community distance selling and supplies of new means of transport to individuals or exempt or non-taxable bodies should also be taxed, during the transitional period, in the Member States of destination, at those Member States' rates and under their conditions, in so far as such transactions would, in the absence of special provisions, be likely to cause significant distortions of competition between Member State ...[+++]s;

Whereas advantage must be taken of the transitional period of taxation of intra-Community trade to take measures necessary to deal with both the social repercussions in the sectors affected and the regional difficulties, in frontier regions in particular, that might follow the abolition of the imposition of tax on imports and of the remission of tax on exports in trade between Member States; whereas Member States should therefore be authorized, for a period ending on 30 June 1999, to exempt supplies of goods carried out within specified limits by duty-free shops in the context of air and sea travel between Member St ...[+++]ates;

The concepts of importation and exportation in intra-Community trade would thus no longer exist and the crossing of a frontier would cease to be the event giving rise to a tax obligation: - 5 - (a) For individuals, this would mean freedom to purchase goods in the Member State of their choice (with those goods being taxed according to the conditions applicable in that Member State) and to use them without restriction in their Member State of residence; as a result, travellers' allowances would have to be scrapped (cf. point III). However, in order to limit during the transitional period the main risks of distortion of competition arising ...[+++] from the differences in VAT rates, the rate applied would be that of the country of destination for: - purchases of new private vehicles (cars and motorcycles), which would be taxed in the country of registration; - purchases from companies specializing in mail-order sales, which would be taxed in the country of destination; (b) For transactions between taxable persons (generally speaking, firms), the transitional arrangements would take the following form: - delivery of goods to another Community country would be exempt from VAT; - purchase of goods in the country of destination would be subject to VAT and the tax would be payable by the purchaser.