EU TPD meeting Feb 25th

[rolygate]

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

 

[Berylanna]

Here is the agenda for the first meeting on this subject:

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/docum...01302/20130205ATT60533/20130205ATT60533EN.doc


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

Dumb question: what does "Public Hearing" mean? Does that mean the public can go? If you can get ANY MEP's to go (it looks like some are invited) then can you get Europe's equivalent of Bill Godshall to go? Even if they can only schmooz during breaks, they could maybe enlighten somebody. And/or give a press release?

 

[rolygate]

This sort of meeting is a whitewash, as you can see by the people invited, who are described as 'the main stakeholders'.

If this is some sort of reference to the stakeholders in outcomes related to the TPD rewrite, it is quite simply an outright lie.

 

[Berylanna]

This sort of meeting is a whitewash, as you can see by the people invited, who are described as 'the main stakeholders'.

If this is some sort of reference to the stakeholders in outcomes related to the TPD rewrite, it is quite simply an outright lie.

I got that, it is obvious. But if it is a "Public Meeting" doesn't that mean people can sit in the audience? Then maybe they can float around during breaks? (For instance, the FDA public meeting had an invitation list but the video showed a lot of empty audience chairs.)