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"Today’s vote is a positive signal. It is heartening to see a majority of Parliament see past big tobacco’s well-endowed lobby tactics that this deal has become a travesty.
As the Commission (EC) contemplates a possible extension of the deal, we are facing litigious retaliation from Philip Morris, with an EU Court challenge against the EU’s review of the Tobacco Products Directive. And I find it astonishing that the EC maintains contact with its legal adversary on this very topic.
I personally know of, and believe in, the Commissioner for Health’s commitment to fight the scourge of an industry whose product kills its customers but I very much fear that the officialdom in charge of trade policy will once again win the day.
Member States and the EC have effectively outsourced key aspects smuggling and counterfeiting customs control to the industry itself, as part of a legal settlement over its misdemeanours, without subjecting the industry’s findings, which match its vested interests, to independent laboratory assessment.
Public bodies need to be put back in charge of crucial aspects of public policy, and for these companies to be subjected to the same set of rules, not to special deals dating back to when they bought themselves out of court."@en1
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