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Only the EU Commission's health department (DG SANTE) implements and enforces Article 5.3 by limiting its meetings with the tobacco industry and pro-actively listing meetings with the tobacco industry on their website (Photo: Piotr Drabik)

How Big Tobacco bypasses EU lobbying rules

In early July Corporate Europe Observatory published a report, Smoke And Mirrors showing that the European Commission is failing to implement its obligations to protect public health decision-making from tobacco industry influence.

This is despite being obliged to do so as a signatory to the UN's 2005 tobacco treaty (UNFCTC).

Article 5.3 of this treaty ...

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Olivier Hoedeman, researcher at Corporate Europe Observatory, an NGO which monitors lobbying of the EU.

Only the EU Commission's health department (DG SANTE) implements and enforces Article 5.3 by limiting its meetings with the tobacco industry and pro-actively listing meetings with the tobacco industry on their website (Photo: Piotr Drabik)

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Olivier Hoedeman, researcher at Corporate Europe Observatory, an NGO which monitors lobbying of the EU.

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