Xinhua news agency, Brussels, January, 10 (reporter Shuai Rong) Gunter Oettinger, the member of the European Commission responsible for the budget, said to the media in Brussels 10, the European Commission is going to levy taxes on plastic packaging, so as to reduce environmental pollution and increase the EU's budget revenue.

Oettinger said, because China launched the relevant measures to ban foreign garbage entry, the EU's plastic waste exports were affected, so the EU hopes to reduce the use of plastic packaging through taxation.

He said the details of the tax on plastic packaging, such as taxes to consumers or producers, and the determination of tax rates, are still under discussion.

Oettinger also said that the EU plan to raise the funding from Member States to the EU budget and reduce budgets to fill the fiscal gap left after Britain's "off Europe".

It is reported that the British "de Europe" will lead to the EU's budget gap of more than 12 billion euros (1 euros, about $1.2) a year. At the same time, the EU also needs to increase spending in areas such as immigration, border control, and defense.