EU Finance Ministers to Discuss Energy Tax Reform in December

The EU agreed to debate in December a controversial bill to overhaul its electricity and fuel tax system.

Hungary, which holds the EU’s rotating presidency, will put the bill, called the Energy Taxation Directive, on the agenda for a Dec. 10 meeting of the bloc’s finance ministers. A political decision needs to be made on what to do with the bill, according to people familiar with the matter.

The bloc is still divided over whether to tax shipping and aviation fuels, which are currently excluded from the latest version of the bill, and when exactly ...