Ζητώ την κατανόηση της ομάδας διαχείρησης που παραβιάζω τους κανόνες και δημοσιεύω εκτός του νήματος του καταστήματός μου,αλλά θεωρώ πως είναι πολύ σημαντικό και πρέπει να δημοσιευτεί εδώ και όχι εκεί που θα το δουν λιγότεροι.
Από πληροφόρηση που έχω, εχθές στις Βρυξέλες είχαμε σε περίληψη τα παρακάτω. Το κείμενο στα Αγγλικά, όποιος μπορεί ας το μεταφράσει.
Brussels, 03/12/2013 (Agence Europe) - Are we moving towards a second reading on the tobacco directive? Although the European institutions want to complete negotiations on this highly sensitive dossier as quickly as possible, before the European elections, the positions of the Council and European Commission on the one side and the European Parliament on the other, are so far apart, following the third trialogue meeting on 3 December, that Frédérique Ries MEP (ALDE, Belgium), says a second reading cannot be ruled out.
Discussions are making progress on the size of health warnings, flavourings and the list of banned substances but everything has stalled on the question of electronic cigarettes. On Tuesday 3 December during a press conference at the EP which Professor Bertrand Dautzenberg, an expert in pneumology, also attended, Ries bitterly pointed out that a so-called compromise is proposed to us
this is provocation and a declaration of war on us, the parliamentarians. It is almost a fundamentalist approach
I am particularly pessimistic as to the outcome, she said at a Parliament press conference at which Professor Bertrand Dautzenberg, a specialist in pneumology, also took part.
On 8 October, the EP, in passing the report by Linda McAvan (S&D, United Kingdom), voted, after a stiff contest, that electronic cigarettes should not be classed as pharmaceutical products (see EUROPE 10938), as proposed by the European Commission (Article 18 of the directive). Although Parliament had set the maximum nicotine content allowed in electronic cigarettes at 30mg/ml, accompanied by strict rules, the compromise put forward by the Lithuanian Presidency proposes 5mg/ml and a total ban on all rechargeable devices. This minimum quantity will destroy a very profitable market as people who have given up tobacco for electronic cigarettes will, instead of having a genuinely effective substitute product, have a vague tasteless alternative that will not get rid of any craving for nicotine. It will result in their going back to tobacco products, regretted Professor Dautzenberg. He said that electronic cigarettes are real substitute products that, although they remain potentially noxious, are nothing in comparison to cigarettes in their level of toxicity. While one out of two smokers will die from tobacco related disease (50%), the risk is less than 1% for electronic cigarette smokers (0.5%). If the compromise put on the table by the Lithuanian presidency doesn't change, Parliament may throw down the gauntlet and not agree to the compromise by the 16 December deadline, which would leave the Greek Presidency during the first half of 2014 with the responsibility of beginning a second reading. While the Greek Presidency may be less intransigent on electronic cigarettes, it could prove a lot more lax on the other points, asserted Ries. The MEP also indicated that it was ridiculous that the Commission and the Council wanted much stricter rules on electronic cigarettes but were much more lenient when it came to other novel products that will come onto the market, as they would just require registration to be accepted (Article 17 of the directive). Ries said that this article lacked any substance at all and showed the inconsistencies contained within the compromise proposals submitted.
On other points, a compromise appears to be taking shape. This is so for the size of combined warnings and images, which will take 65% of the cigarette packet area. Cigarette flavours will remain banned except for menthol, which will enjoy a transition period. The transition period has not yet been set out, however (the Commission wants a year and a half, the Council five years and Parliament would prefer six and a half years). A priority list of banned worrisome substances is still on the cards. With regard to niche products such as cigars and cigarillos, which only account for an extremely limited share of the market (2.5%), Parliament will remain very firm, explained Ries. With regard to snus, which is chewed and is very popular in Sweden, the showdown continues between those supporting an extension of the exemption granted to Sweden and those that want to put an end to it. (IL/transl.fl)
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