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Finance
The Fiscal Affairs Department has the following responsibilities:
- Joint Economic and monetary policy (u. A. Stability and Growth Pact)
- Economic situation and financial stability of the EU and the euro area
- Horizontal financial issues and financial aspects of the EU's external relations
- Annual budgetary procedure
- Financial Regulation
- Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) Direct taxation: in particular taxation of savings and company taxation
- Indirect taxes, in particular VAT, excise duty, energy tax
- Cooperation between tax administrations of the Member States
- EU customs legislation and policy
- Cooperation between customs administrations of the Member States
- International cooperation
- EU cooperation with Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein and Switzerland as part of EFTA or EEA, Andorra, San Marino and Monaco
- Ultra Peripheral Regions
- EU pre-accession and external assistance programs (IPA II, ENI and NIF)
- Basic Issues of EU financial integration
- Basic Issues of EU financial stability
- EU financial market harmonization in the banking, insurance and securities and investment nature
- EU legislation on payments
- EU legislation to combat money laundering, terrorist financing and other forms of financial crime
Head of department: Mr. Ralph Müller.