BYRNE SPEECH
July 1st, 2003
BY ALAN OSBORNTHE EUROPEAN Commission has served notice of its intention to introduce a number of important anti-smoking moves, including that it is "about to conceive a major initiative aimed at banning smoking in workplaces" throughout the 15 EU countries and the new Member States joining next May.David Byrne, commissioner for health policy, told the World Conference on Tobacco or Health, in Helsinki, earlier this month (3 August 2003) that he was "determined to exploit all the possibilities that the (EU) Treaty offers" to achieve such a ban. He said he was ...
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