31/03/2021 (Agence Europe) – The European Commission launched on Tuesday 30 March a public consultation to help prepare its review of EU tobacco taxation rules, scheduled for 2021 and announced in its Beating Cancer Plan (see EUROPE B12650A1). In a report published in February 2020, the Commission already considered that the current rules were less effective than before in deterring tobacco consumption (see EUROPE B12422A15). The directive, which dates from 2011, has not kept up with...