Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether any EU member state has objected to the European Commission about the Standardised Packaging of Tobacco Product Regulations, as notified by the Government to the Commission on 29 August 2014; and if he will make a statement.

The following Member States provided detailed opinions; Romania, Greece, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Spain. Ireland provided a comment.

Further information about member states respondes can be found at:

http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/tris/en/search/?trisaction=search.detail&year=2014&num=427