EU TOBACCO LEGISLATION ROUND-UP
September 1st, 2005
BY ALAN OSBORNIT is probably true, as some anti-tobacco campaigners claim, that if the European Union (EU) had had the statutory authority to act in the public health area in recent years, then the legal crackdown on smokers would have been far tougher than it has been. In fact all the EU legislation currently in place covering tobacco - from ingredients, manufacture, taxation and labelling to advertising and product regulation - has been based on the internal market legal base (Article 95 EC) rather than the public health one (Article 152) where the right to ...
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