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201 signatories. One message. Ahead of the next phase of the TPD and TAD revisions, Europe’s tobacco and nicotine value chain has joined forces to make their case directly to the European Commission.
What message did JTI submit to the Commission’s recently closed Public Consultation on the revisions? This article summarizes our key arguments: where the current framework is delivering, policymakers should first demonstrate why additional regulation is needed before proposing new restrictions.
Good policy starts with good questions. Yet aspects of the Commission’s consultation questionnaire have prompted concerns about whether the evidence generated will provide a sufficiently robust foundation for future legislative proposals.