Here is the agenda for the first meeting on this subject:
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/docum...01302/20130205ATT60533/20130205ATT60533EN.doc
You will see that no stakeholders for existing bans or proposed bans are invited (Snus and ecig consumers or trade assocs). Only those they can't afford to exclude: the tobacco manufacturers.
We should try to have supporting MEPs present instead of just the paid pharma spokespersons.
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Public Hearing on "tobacco Products" organised by the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI)
Monday, 25 February 2013 from 15:00 to 18:30
European Parliament, Room JAN 4Q2, Brussels
AGENDA
Institutional Representatives
15.00 - 15.05 Welcome and opening by the Chair Matthias Groote
15.05 - 15.15 Mr James Reilly, Irish Minister for Health
15.15 - 15.25 Mr Tonio Borg, EU Commissioner for Health and Consumer Policy
15.25 - 16.00 Questions by MEPs
Position of the Main Stakeholders
16.00 - 16.10 Ms Florence Berteletti Kemp Director, Smoke Free Partnership:
The economic and heath burden of tobacco in the EU: The need to protect children and young people
16.10 - 16.20 Antonella Pederiva Secretary General, Confederation of European Community Cigarette, Manufacturers (CECCM)
Proposal for a revision of the Tobacco Product Directive: assessment and impacts
16.20 - 16.50 Questions by MEPs
Specific Aspects of the Proposal: ingredients, labelling and marketing
16.50 - 17.00 Dr Martina Pötschke-Langer Head of the Unit Cancer Prevention in the German Cancer Research Center:
Tobacco additives the increased health risk
17.00 - 17.10 Luk Joossens Advocacy Officer, Association of European Cancer Leagues (ECL):
Traceability, plain packaging and illicit tobacco trade
17.10 - 17.20 Dr David Hammond Associate Professor in the School of Public Health & Health Systems at the University of Waterloo - Canada:
Health warnings and plain packaging
17.20 - 17.30 Dr Jean King Director of Tobacco Control:
Interference by the tobacco industry in tobacco control policy and the need for transparency in official interactions with industry and in lobbying
17.30 - 18.15 Debate with MEPs
18.15 - 18.25 Concluding remarks by the Rapporteur
18.25 - 18.30 Closing statement by the Chairman
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/docum...01302/20130205ATT60533/20130205ATT60533EN.doc
You will see that no stakeholders for existing bans or proposed bans are invited (Snus and ecig consumers or trade assocs). Only those they can't afford to exclude: the tobacco manufacturers.
We should try to have supporting MEPs present instead of just the paid pharma spokespersons.
________________________________
Public Hearing on "tobacco Products" organised by the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI)
Monday, 25 February 2013 from 15:00 to 18:30
European Parliament, Room JAN 4Q2, Brussels
AGENDA
Institutional Representatives
15.00 - 15.05 Welcome and opening by the Chair Matthias Groote
15.05 - 15.15 Mr James Reilly, Irish Minister for Health
15.15 - 15.25 Mr Tonio Borg, EU Commissioner for Health and Consumer Policy
15.25 - 16.00 Questions by MEPs
Position of the Main Stakeholders
16.00 - 16.10 Ms Florence Berteletti Kemp Director, Smoke Free Partnership:
The economic and heath burden of tobacco in the EU: The need to protect children and young people
16.10 - 16.20 Antonella Pederiva Secretary General, Confederation of European Community Cigarette, Manufacturers (CECCM)
Proposal for a revision of the Tobacco Product Directive: assessment and impacts
16.20 - 16.50 Questions by MEPs
Specific Aspects of the Proposal: ingredients, labelling and marketing
16.50 - 17.00 Dr Martina Pötschke-Langer Head of the Unit Cancer Prevention in the German Cancer Research Center:
Tobacco additives the increased health risk
17.00 - 17.10 Luk Joossens Advocacy Officer, Association of European Cancer Leagues (ECL):
Traceability, plain packaging and illicit tobacco trade
17.10 - 17.20 Dr David Hammond Associate Professor in the School of Public Health & Health Systems at the University of Waterloo - Canada:
Health warnings and plain packaging
17.20 - 17.30 Dr Jean King Director of Tobacco Control:
Interference by the tobacco industry in tobacco control policy and the need for transparency in official interactions with industry and in lobbying
17.30 - 18.15 Debate with MEPs
18.15 - 18.25 Concluding remarks by the Rapporteur
18.25 - 18.30 Closing statement by the Chairman