Tobacco: Northern Ireland

(asked on 20th September 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Markham on 19 September (HL10107), what consultations have taken place about the membership of the independent advisory panel as set out in Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/786; and who has so far been appointed to the panel.


Answered by
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Lord Markham
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 4th October 2023

The last consultation by the European Commission on the Independent Advisory panel on characterising flavours in tobacco products was held from 15 July 2016 to 20 October 2016.

The current panel exists of six members. Members are appointed for a renewable term of five years. The Commission also has a list of reserved suitable panel members. The following experts are current members of the Independent Advisory Panel:

- Dr. Alberto Del Rio, Innovamol Consulting Srl, Bologna, Italy;

- Dr. Garmt Dijksterhuis, The Netherlands;

- Dr. Jan van Amsterdam, Department of Psychiatry, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;

- Mr. Emmanuel Vanzeveren, It makes sense SPRL, Braine Le Comte, Belgium (Vice-chair);

- Dr. Wouter Visser, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands; and

- Prof. Efthimios Zervas, Hellenic Open University, Patra, Greece (Chair).

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