TOBACCO PRODUCTS DIRECTIVE
August 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN tobacco industry is resisting handing over detailed cigarette ingredients data to national European Union (EU) governments, a European Commission report has claimed, despite it being their legal duty under the EU tobacco products directive. Highlighting "some difficulties associated to the submission of ingredient information...by the industry", the Commission said data has so far only been sent to Brussels by 13 out of the 25 EU member states. The report said that the data format submitted by manufacturers "varies greatly...either ...
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