煙草在線據(jù)《煙業(yè)通訊》報道編譯　　菲莫國際表示，提議修改歐盟的《煙草產(chǎn)品指令（TPD）》將是對煙草黑市罪犯們的一份禮物，但對于政府收入和合法煙草業(yè)是一個打擊。

　　“在過去5年中，歐盟已經(jīng)忽略了其制訂政策的適當(dāng)性和基于證據(jù)的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)，《煙草產(chǎn)品指令》也正被考慮，”菲莫國際的歐盟區(qū)總裁德拉戈·阿茲諾維克說。

　　阿茲諾維克就歐盟委員會、議會和理事會對《煙草產(chǎn)品指令》達成修改協(xié)議做出評論。

　　“在歐洲理事會和歐洲議會的討論可能略微修改了原文，但歐盟的這個失敗，將是送給從煙草黑市獲利的犯罪分子的一份禮物，該失敗不僅打擊了成千上萬的在煙草業(yè)合法工作的人，還將使各成員國面臨預(yù)算缺口，”阿茲諾維克說。

　　“該《指令》既定的目標(biāo)不是進一步統(tǒng)一內(nèi)部市場，《煙草產(chǎn)品指令》中采取的措施將進一步削弱歐盟憲章所保護的財產(chǎn)權(quán)。這還對其它經(jīng)濟部門發(fā)出了一個令人擔(dān)憂的信號，這些經(jīng)濟部門依賴于法律的確定性和對知識產(chǎn)權(quán)的嚴(yán)格保護。”

　　新《指令》仍然被歐洲理事會和歐洲議會正式通過，新《指令》在法律措辭版本定稿后將被投票。

　　一旦新《指令》被各成員國采納，各成員國將有兩年的時間將新規(guī)則納入本國法律。

PMI says EU failed to do homework on revision of tobacco products directive

　　Philip Morris International says that proposed revisions to the EU's Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) will be a gift to black market criminals but a blow to government revenues and to people working in the licit tobacco industry.

　　"The EU has ignored its own standards for proportionate, evidenced-based policymaking during the five years that the Tobacco Products Directive has been under consideration," said PMI's EU region president, Drago Azinovic.

　　He was commenting on an agreement reached between the European Commission, Parliament and Council on the proposed TPD revisions.

　　"Discussions in Council and the European Parliament might have marginally amended the original text, but the EU's failure to do its homework will be a gift for the criminals profiting from the black market in tobacco, and a blow to the hundreds of thousands of people working in the legal industry and member state governments now faced with filling budget gaps," said Azinovic.

　　"Instead of further harmonizing the internal market, a stated objective of the directive, measures in the TPD will further erode property rights that the EU Charter protects. This sends a worrying signal to other sectors of the economy that depend on legal certainty and a rigorous defense of intellectual property rights."

　　The new directive has still to be formally adopted by the European Parliament and the Council, which will vote on it only after the legal-linguistic revision of the text has been finalised. And once the directive is adopted member states will have two years to transpose the new rules into national law.