(1)

Under Article 370 of Council Directive 2006/112/EC of 28 November 2006 on the common system of value added tax (2), Member States which, at 1 January 1978, taxed the transactions listed in Annex X, Part A, may continue to tax those transactions; these transactions must be taken into account for the determination of the VAT resources base.

(2)

Under Article 371 of Directive 2006/112/EC, Member States which, at 1 January 1978, exempted the transactions listed in Annex X, Part B, may continue to exempt those transactions, in accordance with the conditions applying in the Member State concerned on that date; these transactions must be taken into account for the determination of the VAT resources base.

(3)

In the case of the Netherlands, the Commission, on the basis of Regulation (EEC, Euratom) No 1553/89, adopted Decision 90/180/Euratom, EEC (3) authorising the Netherlands, with effect from 1 January 1989, not to take into account certain categories of transactions and to use certain approximate estimates for the calculation of the VAT own resources base.

(4)

Since 1 January 1993, the Netherlands has taxed the transactions referred to in point 5 of Annex X, Part B to Directive 2006/112/EC; the authorisation granted in this connection should be discontinued with effect from that date.

(5)

The Commission invited the Netherlands to verify whether those authorisations granted to the Netherlands with no explicit limitation in time, were still needed and to confirm this to the Commission; the Netherlands confirmed that authorisation to use approximate estimates for the transactions mentioned in point 5 of Annex X, Part B to Directive 2006/112/EC was no longer needed.

(6)

For the sake of clarity and transparency of Community rules, provisions that have become obsolete or have ceased to have effect should be repealed.

(7)

The measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Advisory Committee on Own Resources,