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Identification
Reference COD/1999/0244  
Title Tobacco: manufacture, presentation and sale of products (recast version direct. 89/622/EEC, 92/41/EEC, 90/239/EEC)
Legal Basis EC 095  
Dossier of the committee CODE/5/14568
Subject(s) 4.20.03 drug addiction, alcoholism, smoking
4.60.02 consumer information, publicity, labelling
4.60.04.02 consumer security
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Stages Documents: references Dates
Source reference Equivalent references Votes and amendments Joint resolution of document of publication in Official Journal
Commission/Council: initial legislative document Summaries EC COM(1999)0594 C5-0016/2000         16/11/1999 C 150 30.05.2000, p. 0043
Economic and Social Committee: opinion, report   ESC CES0365/2000           29/03/2000 C 140 18.05.2000, p. 0024
Committee of the Regions: opinion   CofR CDR0032/2000           12/04/2000 C 226 08.08.2000, p. 0005
EP: draft report by the committee responsible   EP PE232.878           13/04/2000  
EP: decision of the committee responsible, 1st reading/single reading Summaries               25/05/2000  
EP: tabled legislative report, 1st reading or single reading   EP A5-0156/2000           25/05/2000 C 067 01.03.2001, p. 0010
EP: position, 1st reading or single reading Summaries EP T5-0262/2000           14/06/2000 C 067 01.03.2001, p. 0063-0150
Commission: modified legislative proposal Summaries EC COM(2000)0428 C5-0353/2000         28/06/2000 C 337 28.11.2000, p. 0177 E
Council: common position Summaries CSL 09448/1/2000 C5-0431/2000         31/07/2000 C 300 20.10.2000, p. 0049
Council's activities Summaries               31/07/2000  
Commission: communication on the common position Summaries EC SEC(2000)1383           07/09/2000  
EP: draft report by the committee responsible   EP PE293.679           10/10/2000  
EP: decision of the committee responsible, 2nd reading Summaries               21/11/2000  
EP: tabled legislative report, 2nd reading   EP A5-0348/2000           21/11/2000 C 232 17.08.2001, p. 0010
EP: position, 2nd reading Summaries EP T5-0557/2000           13/12/2000 C 232 17.08.2001, p. 0077-0146
Commission: opinion on the EP position at second reading Summaries EC COM(2001)0029 C5-0022/2001         16/01/2001  
EP/Council: Conciliation committee, results Summaries               27/02/2001  
EP/Council: joint text   CSL/EP 3614/2001 C5-0086/2001         05/04/2001  
EP: tabled legislative report, 3rd reading   EP A5-0162/2001           27/04/2001  
EP: draft report by the delegation to the Conciliation Committee   EP PE287.586           30/04/2001  
EP: legislative resolution, 3rd reading Summaries EP T5-0242/2001           15/05/2001 C 034 07.02.2002, p. 0023-0104 E
Final legislative act Summaries EU 32001L0037           05/06/2001 L 194 18.07.2001, p. 0026
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05/06/2001 - Final legislative act
PURPOSE: to approximate Member State legislation concerning the manufacture, presentation and sale of tobacco products.
COMMUNITY MEASURE: Directive 2001/37/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the approximation of laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States concerning the manufacture, presentation and sale of tobacco products.
CONTENT: The aim of this Directive is to approximate the laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States concerning the maximum tar, nicotine and carbon monoxide yields of cigarettes and the warnings regarding health and other information to appear on unit packets of tobacco products, together with certain measures concerning the ingredients and the descriptions of tobacco procducts, taking as a basis a high level of health protection. Against this background, the Directive contains the following provisions:
Cigarettes: from January 2004, the yield of cigarettes released for free circulation, marketed or manufactured in the Member States, shall not be greater than 10mg per cigarette for tar; 1 mg per cigarette for nicotine and 10 mg per cigarette for carbon monoxide. Member States may apply the yield limits as from 1 January 2005 but shall in any event do so by 1 January 2007 at the latest. Greece shall have a derogation until 1 January 2007.
Measurement methods: the tar, nicotine and carbon monoxide yields of cigarettes shall be measured on the basis of the ISO standards 4387 for tar, 10315 for nicotine and 8454 for carbon monoxide. The accuracy of the tar and nicotine indications on packets shall be verified in accordance with the ISO standard 8243. Member States shall send the Commission a list of approved laboratories, specifying the criteria used for approval and the methods of monitoring applied, by 30 September 2002, and whenever the change is made.
Labelling: Specfic labelling requirements are laid down in the Directive (please refer to outcome of the Conciliation Committee). In addition to the percentages decided,in the case of unit packets intended for products other than cigarettes, the most visible surface of which exceeds 75 cm2, the warnings referred to shall cover an area of at least 22,5 cm2 on each surface. That area shall be increased to 24 cm2 for Member States with two official languages and 26,25 cm2 for Member States with three official languages. There are also provisions relating to the font used in text warnings.
Imports: Member States may not, for considerations relating to the limitation of tar, nicotine or carbon monoxide yields of cigarettes, to health warning and other indications or to other requirements of this Directive, prohibit or restrict the import, sale and consumption of tobacco products which they deem necessary in order to protect public health, insofar as such rules do not prejudice the rules laid down in this Directive.
ENTRY INTO FORCE: 18.07.2001.
 
List of summaries
Summaries 27/11/2007 Commission/Council: follow-up document
Summaries 27/07/2005 Commission/Council: follow-up document
Summaries 05/09/2003 Implementing legislative act
Summaries 05/06/2001 Final legislative act
Summaries 15/05/2001 EP: legislative resolution, 3rd reading
Summaries 27/02/2001 EP/Council: Conciliation committee, results
Summaries 16/01/2001 Commission: opinion on the EP position at second reading
Summaries 13/12/2000 EP: position, 2nd reading
Summaries 21/11/2000 EP: decision of the committee responsible, 2nd reading
Summaries 07/09/2000 Commission: communication on the common position
Summaries 31/07/2000 Council's activities
Summaries 31/07/2000 Council: common position
Summaries 28/06/2000 Commission: modified legislative proposal
Summaries 14/06/2000 EP: position, 1st reading or single reading
Summaries 25/05/2000 EP: decision of the committee responsible, 1st reading/single reading
Summaries 16/11/1999 Commission/Council: initial legislative document
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