欧共体委员会最近原则上通过了关于征收能源税的提案。征收能源税的目的在于控制废气排放量,减轻对于环境的污染,这是欧共体于去年9月提出来的。根据这一提案,从1993年起,12个成员国开始征收能源税,每桶石油征收税金3美元,以后每年增加1美元,到2000年购买一桶石油要付税金10美元。欧共体希望到2000 The EC Commission recently approved the proposal to levy an energy tax. The purpose of levying energy taxes is to control emissions and reduce environmental pollution, which was raised by the EC in September last year. According to this proposal, since 1993, 12 member states started to impose an energy tax of 3 U.S. dollars per barrel of oil, 1 U.S. dollar per year thereafter, and 10 U.S. dollars for a barrel of oil to be purchased by the year 2000. EC hopes to 2000