EUROPEAN ANTI-FRAUD AGENCY TO CHAIR WHO ILLICIT TOBACCO TRADE BODY
February 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A SENIOR official from European Union (EU) anti-fraud office OLAF has become the chairman of the World Health Organisation's (WHO) new Inter-Governmental Negotiating Body (INB) charged with drafting a protocol fighting the illicit tobacco trade. This will be an international treaty aimed at creating worldwide measures combating this illegal commerce, linked to the WHO's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. OLAF's directorate B (investigations and operations) director Ian Walton-George will chair INB meetings. The first was held in Geneva, ...
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