Alongside the plenary session, French MEPs Anne-Sophie Pelletier (The Left) and Michèle Rivasi (Greens/EFA) organised a round table on tobacco taxation on Wednesday 14 June. The experts called for tobacco taxation to be harmonised at European level.
They also condemned the delay in revising the directive on the taxation of tobacco products, which is part of the Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan (BCP) (see EUROPE B13126A3). The European Commission has still not communicated a date, although...