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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10588
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SECTORAL POLICY / (ae) health

Tobacco products - adverse effects of new directive

Brussels, 03/04/2012 (Agence Europe) - The new directive on tobacco products could, as it stands today, significantly increase the risk of illegal trade in tobacco. This is the fear expressed by Transcrime, the joint research centre on transnational crime, which sets out the problem in a new report published on Tuesday 3 April.

The report examines in detail the current options and provisions of the proposal for a directive, which will be presented by the European Commission during 2012, and...

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