11. 1. 94 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 7/13 COUNCIL DECISION of 22 December 1993 aﬁthorizing the Federal Republic of Germany to apply a measure derogating from Articles 2 (1) and 17 of the Sixth Directive 77/388/EEC on the harmonization of the laws of the Member States relating to turnover taxes (94/8/EC) THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to the Sixth Council Directive 77/388/EEC of 17 May 1977 on the harmonization of the laws of the Member States relating to turnover taxes — Common system of value added tax : uniform basis of assessment (*), and in particular Article 27 thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, Whereas, under Article 27 (1) of Directive 77/388/EEC, the Council, acting unanimously on a proposal from the Commission, may authorize any Member State to intro- duce special measures for derogation from that Directive, in order to simplify the procedure for charging the tax or to prevent certain types of tax evasion or avoidance ; Whereas, by letter dated 27 October 1993 and received by the Commission on 10 November 1993, the Federal Republic of Germany requested authorization to intro- duce a measure for derogation from Article 17 of Directive 77/388/EEC; Whereas the other Member States were informed on 22 November 1993 of the request made by the Federal Republic of Germany; Whereas implementation of the transitional VAT arrange- ments leads to VAT being charged on certain work on movable tangible property and certain services relating to - the transport of goods and ancillary transport activities at the place where these services are supplied, irrespective of the place where the taxable person to whom these services are supplied is able to exercise his rights of deduction ; whereas this results in growing use of the refund procedures provided for by Directives 79/1072/EEC (%) and 86/560/EEC (); Whereas the increasing use of the refund procedures provided for by Directives 79/1072/EEC- and 86/560/EEC may impede the development of intra- Community trade in certain services; (") OJ No L 145, 13. 6. 1977, p. 1. Directive as last amended by Directive 92/111/EEC (O] No L 384, 30. 12. 1992, p. 47). (3 OJ No L 331, 27. 12. 1979, p. 11. () OJ No L 326, 21. 11. 1986, p. 40. Whereas the measure for derogation in question aims to introduce a simplification consisting in the exemption of certain services supplied to taxable persons not estab- lished in the territory of the country but identified in the Community, for which these taxable persons would in any event be entitled to a refund; Whereas certain requirements should be imposed . on taxable persons with a view to preventing tax evasion or avoidance ; Whereas it is desirable for this derogation to be limited to the time necessary to enable the Council, acting on a proposal from the Commission, to adopt a definitive solution ; Whereas the measure for derogation in question has no effect on the Buropean Communities’ own resources accruing from value added tax, HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION : Article 1 By way of derogation from Article 2 (1) of Directive 77/388/EEC, the Federal Republic of Germany is hereby authorized to exempt the supply of services referred to in Article 2 rendered to taxable persons identified in accord- ance with Article 22 (1) (c), (d) and () of Directive 77/388/EEC and in a Member State other than Germany who would have qualified in accordance with Directives 79/1072/EEC and 86/560/EEC for a refund of the tax which would have been due had these services been taxed. Article 2 In the circumstances provided for in Article 1, the Federal Republic of Germany is authorized to exempt : 1. the supply of services referred to in the third and fourth indents of Article 9 (2) (c) of Directive 77/388/EEC but excluding the supply of services exempted in accordance with Articles 14, 15 and 16 of Directive 77/388/EEC ; ' 2. the transport services located in the territory of the ‘country in accordance with Article 9 (2) (b) of Direc- tive 77/388/EEC, directly linked to the intra- Community transport of goods as defined in Article 28b (C) (1) of Directive 77/388/EEC;