Englisch Fiscalis 2007
On 3 December 2002 the European Parliament and the Council adopted the Fiscalis 2003-2007 programme. This was published on 17 December as Decision No 2235/2002/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 3 December 2002 adopting a Community programme to improve the operation of taxation systems in the internal market (Fiscalis programme 2003-2007).
The European Commission originally adopted the proposals for two programmes in January 2002, "Fiscalis 2007" and "Customs 2007", to help Member States work more closely together against tax and customs fraud, through improved electronic systems for information exchange between national administrations, co-operation in investigations, training seminars for customs and tax officials and experts and the exchanges of officials between national administrations.
The Fiscalis 2007 Communication and proposal
The text of the Press Release when the proposal was made
The "Common position" of the Parliament and Council was agreed on 24 October 2002. For more details see the press release issued at the time.