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The Transnational Alliance to Combat Illicit Trade (TRACIT) is a non-governmental organisation consisting of corporations and select trade associations within a range of sectors including tobacco, alcohol, agri-foods, petroleum and pharmaceuticals. TRACIT aims to build co-operation between business and government regarding regulatory responses to illicit trade. It has extensive tobacco industry connections and its reports ignore any industry involvement in…

In January 2013, in the wake of the Dalligate scandal, the Alliance for Lobby Transparency and Ethics Regulation (Alter-EU), along with Corporate Accountability International, the European Public Health Alliance and Smoke-Free Partnership wrote to President Barroso to “express our concerns about the failure of the European Commission to properly implement Article 5.3 of the World Health Organisation Framework Convention…

The revised EU Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) entered into force on 19 May 2014. On 20 May 2016 the new rules were transposed into national tobacco control legislation.67 This page provides a brief overview of the new rules under this Directive. Health Warnings Combined graphic and text health warnings have to 65% of the front, back…

Background The tobacco industry’s strategy to influence decision-making around the revision of the European Union (EU) Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) was strongly dependent on third party lobbying.68 Worryingly, this involved several high profile ‘Revolving Door’ cases where former senior EU politicians and policy makers turned tobacco industry lobbyists, took advantage of their existing contacts within…

This page was based on a Smokefree Partnership Briefing on the revision of the Tobacco Products Directive published in 2011. (This was updated in 2015) 88 Plain Packaging has become a widely-used term used within the smoking and health debate. However, it is more accurate to use the term Standarised Packaging. Plain packaging suggests…

Background In April 2014, the European Union (EU) adopted the EU Tobacco Products Directive (2014/40/EU) (TPD), which regulates the manufacture, presentation and sale of tobacco products in the Member States. It took five years for the TPD to be adopted, with a spokesperson of the European Parliament describing the TPD as “the most lobbied dossier in the history…

From September to December 2010, the European Commission held a public consultation on the possible revision of the Tobacco Products Directive 2001/37/EC. The EU Tobacco Products Directive Revision (TPD) is the piece of legislation that regulates tobacco products in Europe. To learn more about the TPD, and why it is currently being revised, please visit EU…

This page details the timeline of the ‘Dalligate’ controversy, when the European Union (EU) Health Commissioner was forced to resign as a result of a complex ‘cash for access’ lobbying scheme.109 For more information, see TPD: Dalligate. Timeline concerning the ‘Cash for Access’ controversy dubbed ‘Dalligate’, 2010-2012 Date Event 20/08/2010 At request of ESTOC, an off-the-record…

On 16 October 2012, EU Health Commissioner John Dalli was forced to resign as a result of a “cash for influence” lobbying scandal dubbed by some media as ‘Dalligate’.110 The scandal has also been referred to as ‘Barrosogate’ and ‘Olafgate’.111112 Background Dalli’s resignation occurred only days before he was due to launch the much anticipated, and…

The tobacco industry and its supporters have set up several campaigning websites to mobilise EU citizens support to oppose the EU Tobacco Products Directive Revision, known as the TPD. These websites promote anti-regulation messages, encouraging seemingly grass-root opposition to the TPD. Forest: No Thank EU Image 1: House magazine is wrapped in Forest advert 2013 No Thank…