CIGARETTE SMUGGLING
May 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALL
FURTHER action to fight cigarette smuggling has been demanded by the European Parliament's budgetary control committee, which underlined concerns about its losing Euro 200 million in revenue to European Union coffers in 2003. It adopted a report by Austrian MEP Herbert Bösch demanding better cooperation between member states and Europol. Whilst welcoming an agreement between the Commission and Philip Morris International on combating cigarette smuggling, it wanted all member states signing (15 of 25 have not, including Britain).
FURTHER action to fight cigarette smuggling has been demanded by the European Parliament's budgetary control committee, which underlined concerns about its losing Euro 200 million in revenue to European Union coffers in 2003. It adopted a report by Austrian MEP Herbert Bösch demanding better cooperation between member states and Europol. Whilst welcoming an agreement between the Commission and Philip Morris International on combating cigarette smuggling, it wanted all member states signing (15 of 25 have not, including Britain).
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