EU upholds tough rules on tobacco packaging [View all]

[muriel_volestrangler]

Rules that will drastically alter cigarette packaging are set to be adopted, after big tobacco firms failed to block new European Union laws.

Europe's highest court upheld a law that will standardise packaging and ban the advertising of e-cigarettes.

The Court of Justice found the laws "did not go beyond the limits of what is appropriate and necessary".

Under the new rules health warnings will have to cover 65% of the front and back of cigarette packaging.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-36200778

It's rulings like this that could be threatened by TTIP:

Investment Dispute Settlement – It is worrying that this does not appear to include appropriate safeguards for the right to regulate for public health in the proposal and interestingly, there is no general exception of tobacco control measures ( ‘tobacco carve out’). EPHA is calling for a public health carve out instead of a tobacco carve out. Greenpeace link - http://ttip-leaks.org/serpedon/doc15.pdf

http://www.epha.org/a/6513