Campaign for a revised Tobacco Products Directive in the European Union: lessons learnt

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 464-467 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florence Berteletti ◽  
Jean King ◽  
Jennifer Burch ◽  
Anca Toma Friedlaender
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Tobacco Products ◽  
Lessons Learnt

scholarly journals LEGAL REGULATION OF TOBACCO AND TOBACCO PRODUCTS IN THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC AND IN THE EUROPEAN UNION

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 44-53
Author(s):  
Barbara Pavlíková
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Slovak Republic ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Tobacco Products ◽  
Excise Duty ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
Regulatory Instruments ◽  
The Eu

Abstract The contribution deals with the Slovak and the EU legal regulation of tobacco and tobacco products. Its primary purpose is to point out the Slovak and European legal acts which constitute the main regulatory instruments in this field using the method of analysis and synthesis. Rules of production, distribution and conditions of use of tobacco and products thereof are in the Slovak Republic contained mainly in two acts - the Act No 335/2011 Coll. on Tobacco Products and the Act No 377/2004 Coll. on the Protection of Non-smokers, as well as in special Decree No 212/2012 Coll., regulating tobacco products. Regulation of excise duty on tobacco products can be found in the Act with the same name - Act No 106/2004 Coll.. Another objective of the paper is also to draw attention to the amendment of Act on Protection of Non-smokers which entered into force on 1 July 2013. The European Union struggles with the negative consequences of smoking at the supranacional level and its institutions - the European Commission, the European Parliament and the Council of the EU - are already for several years adopting legal acts to facilitate uniformity and easier interpretation of European law also in the field of legal regulation of tobacco and tobacco products. The predominant part of the existing legislation deals with the approximation of laws in areas that are closely related to the manufacture, presentation and sale of tobacco products, but also to the collection of taxes from these products.

Lessons Learnt From Ignalina NPP Decommissioning Project

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Claude Naisse
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Project Management ◽  
Power Plant ◽  
Nuclear Power Plant ◽  
Present Status ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Management Unit ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Lessons Learnt ◽  
The Republic

The Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP) is located in Lithuania, 130 km north of Vilnius, and consists of two 1500 MWe RBMK type units, commissioned respectively in December 1983 and August 1987. On the 1st of May 2004, the Republic of Lithuania became a member of the European Union. With the protocol on the Ignalina Nuclear Power in Lithuania which is annexed to the Accession Treaty, the Contracting Parties have agreed: - On Lithuanian side, to commit closure of unit 1 of INPP before 2005 and of Unit 2 by 31 December 2009; - On European Union side, to provide adequate additional Community assistance to the efforts of Lithuania to decommission INPP. The paper is divided in two parts. The first part describes how, starting from this agreement, the project was launched and organized, what is its present status and which activities are planned to reach the final ambitious objective of a green field. To give a global picture, the content of the different projects that were defined and the licensing process will also be presented. In the second part, the paper will focus on the lessons learnt. It will explain the difficulties encountered to define the decommissioning strategy, considering both immediate or differed dismantling options and why the first option was finally selected. The paper will mention other challenges and problems that the different actors of the project faced and how they were managed and solved. The paper will be written by representatives of the Ignalina NPP and of the Project Management Unit.

scholarly journals Plain packaging of tobacco products in the European Union: an EU success story?

2017 ◽  
Vol 50 (5) ◽  
pp. 1701232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Constantine Vardavas ◽  
Filippos T. Filippidis ◽  
Brian Ward ◽  
Marine Faure ◽  
Carlos Jimenez-Ruiz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Success Story ◽  
Tobacco Products ◽  
Plain Packaging

scholarly journals Opinions of university students regarding pictorial warnings on cigarettes packsÜniversite öğrencilerinin sigara paketleri üzerindeki resimli uyarılar hakkındaki görüşleri

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 987
Author(s):  
Funda Özpulat ◽  
Nazmi Bilir
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
University Students ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Male Students ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Tobacco Products ◽  
Pictorial Warnings ◽  
Raising Awareness

This descriptive study was conducted on totally 460 students from the departments of nutrition and dietetic (n=143) and nursing (n=317) of a health college located in Akşehir County of Konya City in the period of December 1st-31st, 2015. Within the scope of the study, age, gender, department and grade characteristics of students, their individual and family member’s status in terms of consuming tobacco products, and their opinions regarding pictorial warnings to be printed on cigarettes packs, regulated by the European Union published on 17.12.2014.As a result of the study, it was determined that students’ opinions regarding efficiency of written and pictorial warnings on cigarettes packs were differing with respect to students’ gender and sigarettes usage status; and that illustrations on cigarettes packs were found more effective by female students and non-cigarettes user.Especially activities such as training programs, seminars/congress/conferences for male students and cigarettes users about tobacco products and their harms could contribute in raising awareness of university youth. Additionally, placing impressive or even scary images in larger sizes emphasizing serious health problems on cigarettespacks could be effective on significant decrease of usage of tobacco products. ÖzetKonya İli Akşehir İlçesinde yer alan bir sağlık yüksekokulunun beslenme diyetetik (n=143) ve hemşirelik bölümünden (n=317) toplam 460 öğrencinin katılımıyla gerçekleştirilen tanımlayıcı tipteki bu çalışma 1-31 Aralık 2015 tarihleri arasında uygulanmıştır. Çalışma kapsamında, öğrencilerin yaşı, cinsiyeti, bölümü, sınıfı, kendisinin ve aile bireylerinin tütün ürünlerini kullanma durumu gibi bazı özellikleri ile sigara paketleri üzerine basılmak üzere Avrupa Birliği tarafından 17.12.2014 tarihinde yayınlanan resimli uyarılar hakkındaki düşünceleri öğrenilmiştir.Yapılan çalışma sonucunda, sigara paketleri üzerindeki yazılı ve görsel uyarıları etkili bulma durumunun öğrencilerin cinsiyetine ve sigara kullanma durumuna göre değiştiği, kız öğrencilerin ve sigara kullanmayanların sigara paketleri üzerindeki ifadeleri daha etkili buldukları saptanmıştır.Özellikle erkek öğrencilere ve sigara kullananlara tütün ürünleri ve zararlarına yönelik düzenlenecek eğitim programları, seminer/kongre/konferans türü etkinlikler üniversite gençliğinin farkındalık düzeyinin arttırılmasına ve bilinçlendirilmelerine katkıda bulunacaktır. Ayrıca, sigara paketleri üzerine daha geniş alanı kapsayan, daha ciddi sağlık sorunlarına işaret eden çarpıcı hatta ürkütücü resimlerin basılması tütün ürünlerinin kullanılmasının önemli ölçüde azaltılmasında etkili olabilir.

scholarly journals Evaluating the European Union (EU) Tobacco Products Directive: Findings from the EUREST-PLUS ITC cohort study among six EU Member States (MS)

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Constantine Vardavas ◽  
Nicolas Bécuwe ◽  
Tibor Demjén ◽  
Esteve Fernández ◽  
Ann McNeill ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Cohort Study ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Tobacco Products ◽  
Member States ◽  
Eu Member States

Policy implementation for the ban of characterising flavours in tobacco products in the European Union: The EUREST-FLAVOURS Project

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Kyriakos ◽  
Manolis Tzatzarakis ◽  
Alexander Vardavas ◽  
Charis Girvalaki ◽  
Katerina Nikitara ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Policy Implementation ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Tobacco Products

scholarly journals Integrated weed management systems with herbicide-tolerant crops in the European Union: lessons learnt from home and abroad

2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 459-475 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jay Ram Lamichhane ◽  
Yann Devos ◽  
Hugh J. Beckie ◽  
Micheal D. K. Owen ◽  
Pascal Tillie ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Weed Management ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Integrated Weed Management ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Lessons Learnt ◽  
Herbicide Tolerant

scholarly journals Harmful Commercial Marketing and Children’s Rights: For a Better Use of EU Powers

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 841-850
Author(s):  
Amandine GARDE
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
European Union ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Unhealthy Food ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Tobacco Products ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
The Eu

The marketing of tobacco, alcohol, unhealthy food and gambling services is harmful to public health, the European economy and sustainability. If the European Union (EU) has embraced the regulation of cross-border marketing for tobacco products for over two decades, it has consistently resisted evidence-driven calls to regulate the marketing of other harmful commodities, preferring instead to rely on ineffective industry pledges. This contribution reflects on why the EU has failed to use its competence to regulate cross-border marketing more systematically to protect health and highlights why the time is ripe to reconsider the issue, before concluding with a possible way forward.

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