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Originally Posted by Daveoc64
I don't believe there is a specific regulation, it's just been agreed after France wanted to do it. I think it was more of a case of the EU regulators establishing whether or not they could do it without a change in the law.
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France have passed such a law, due to come into force in 2012. I don't think that they are legally allowed to do this under current EU law.
I do note that there are moves afoot to get ebooks assigned to the reduced band of VAT, or even to remove VAT from ebooks altogether, but as far as I've been able to find out, nothing has actually been passed to do this.
It's not very surprising that France (and apparently Spain) are willing to pass a law that will be struck down if appealed to the EU.