login
login
Image header Agence Europe
Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10869
Contents Publication in full By article 19 / 33
SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) health

Council focus is on “tobacco directive”

Brussels, 18/06/2013 (Agence Europe) - The “tobacco directive” will be the main item of the Health Council to be held on Friday 21 June in Luxembourg under the chairmanship of James Reilly, Ireland's Minister for Health.

Ministers will seek to set out general guidelines on the directive on the basis of a compromise text developed by the Irish Presidency of the EU Council. This is a highly sensitive issue on which opinions sometimes differ considerably, as the Presidency itself admitts....

Contents

A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
INSTITUTIONAL
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS
SECTORAL POLICIES
EXTERNAL ACTION
MEDIA - EDUCATION