According to recent reports, the EU Council and Parliament are preparing to move forward on the proposed directive to require public Country-by-Country reporting, with the next round of negotiations scheduled 17 May 2017. A revised draft of the directive was released in December 2016 with certain compromises ({News-2016-12-21/P/2- previous coverage}) and a further proposal with stricter requirements was put forward by an EU Parliament committee in February 2017, which includes using the EU Ac…