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Le présent document est la synthèse de l’analyse approfondie menée sur le thème «Nouveaux produits du tabac et de la nicotine et leurs effets sur la santé». L’intégralité du document, disponible en anglais, peut être téléchargée à l’adresse suivante: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/IDAN/2022/740068/IPOLIDA(2022)740068EN.pdf

En 2014, 1 649 irrégularités impliquant des fonds européens d'un montant de 538 millions d'euros ont été signalées comme frauduleuses par les États membres de l'Union européenne (cas de fraude présumée et établie). L'incidence financière globale sur le budget de l'Union a augmenté de 36 % par rapport à 2013.

To fight illicit trade in tobacco products, the European Union and its Member States currently have agreements with the four largest tobacco manufacturers. The European Commission has now proposed that the EU join a new international agreement in this field. The topic is due to be discussed with the Commission during the May I plenary session.

On 22 January 2014, a half-day workshop on "Cigarette Smuggling" has been organised by the Policy Department for Budgetary Affairs at the request of the Committee on Budgetary Control. Experts from academia and NGOs working in the field were invited to exchange views and experiences on how to tackle the problem of cigarette smuggling. The aim of this workshop document is to summarise and to spread what was discussed during this half day. The brochure, furthermore, contains briefing papers and presentations ...

This report summarises the presentations and discussions at the Workshop on electronic cigarettes, held on 7 May 2013 at the European Parliament. The aims of the workshop were to exchange information on how different jurisdictions deal with the regulation of the electronic cigarette and to be informed on the status of the scientific evidence concerning long-term health effects. The workshop was hosted by MEP Linda McAvan (S&D, UK), ENVI Committee, Rapporteur on Tobacco Products Directive.

La présente note vise à fournir une première appréciation de l'évaluation d'impact de la Commission accompagnant sa proposition de directive sur la fabrication, la présentation et la vente du tabac et de ses produits, présentée le 19 décembre 2012.

Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) work by vaporising nicotine liquid. They are aimed at people who do not want to smoke tobacco but cannot or do not want to overcome their nicotine addiction. They are mostly produced in China, and marketed in Europe by small and medium-sized firms. The market is growing rapidly.

Tobacco-related diseases kill around 700 000 Europeans per year. In order to make tobacco products less attractive to young people, the Commission proposed in December 2012 a revision of the Tobacco Products Directive which would ban additives, flavours and slim cigarettes, require large pictorial health warnings, and regulate smokeless products, novel tobacco products and electronic cigarettes. The European Parliament's Environment Committee appointed Linda McAvan (S&D, UK) as rapporteur.

Le troisième rapport de la Commission, COM(2001)133, suggère des modifications à la législation communautaire existante en matière de taxation des tabacs manufacturés. En passant en revue – sans s'attarder sur les aspects techniques - les méthodes de perception des accises sur le tabac au sein de l'Union européenne et en débattant des effets potentiels des modifications récemment proposées, ce document livre un bref aperçu du sujet envisagé.