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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8022

8 August 2001
(eu) eu/tobacco/fraud
Further complaint lodged on behalf of ten member States on Monday against two American cigarette manufacturers

Brussels, 07/08/2001 (Agence Europe) - Less than a month after the rejection of its first complaint (see EUROPE of 19 July, p.7), the European Commission announced on Monday, as we predicted, that it was lodging another case before the American courts against Philip Morris and RJ Reynolds, suspected of being implicated in cigarette smuggling in Europe (see EUROPE of 3 August, p.4). But, this time, it has decided to lodge a complaint not in its own name but on behalf of ten Member States...