TOBACCO: COMMISSION CALLED ON TO IMPROVE TRANSPARENCY.

• Position: Brief article

The EU must respect the World Health Organisation (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), including its guidelines on transparency (Article 5.3). This is the purpose of a letter penned, on 17 January, by the Alliance for Lobby Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU), Corporate Accountability International, the European Public Health Alliance (EPHA) and the Smoke-Free Partnership, and sent to the President of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso. The letter calls on the EU...