Tobacco: EU Law
(asked on 16th November 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effect on small retailers of the introduction of those bans on small and flavoured tobacco packs prescribed in the EU Tobacco Products Directive that was not part of the original impact assessment for that Directive.
The Impact Assessment published alongside the Tobacco and Related Products Regulations 2016 at:
sets out the Government’s view on the likely impact of the Directive, including an assessment of the removal of small and flavoured packs.
The Department is committed to a full statutory review of the functioning of the Tobacco and Related Products Regulations, which implement the European Union Tobacco Products Directive, within five years of entering into force. The statutory review must be accompanied by an Impact Assessment.