EU Updates Tobacco Tracing System at Expert Group Meeting

Aug.09.2022
EU Updates Tobacco Tracing System at Expert Group Meeting
The EU discusses updates to its tobacco traceability system, revising regulation (EU) 2018/574 in a recent meeting.

The website 2FIRSTS has discovered that the European Commission's Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety (DGSANTE, hereafter referred to as SANTE) has recently updated a meeting summary on its official website, detailing the key points discussed during the Tobacco Control Expert Group meeting held on June 19th. The meeting mainly focused on the EU's tobacco traceability system and revised the Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/574. This regulation refers to the technical standards for establishing and operating the tobacco product traceability system that SANTE published on December 15th, 2017.


The minutes of the June 19th meeting of the European Union were released and sourced from the official website of the Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety.


The conference group was updated on the latest developments of a project involving the ongoing compilation of an expert research report. The report focuses on the development and configuration of automatic alerts generated by the storage repository system of the European Union’s tobacco traceability system.


The SANTE committee clarified the rationale behind the proposed revision of Regulation (EU) 2018/574, the standard procedural process for the implementation of the legislation, and the general timeline for the regulation's amendment.


SANTE presented all proposed amendments to Regulation (EU) 2018/574 and their rationale for implementation by the committee. The group discussed the proposed amendments with SANTE and were invited to submit their written comments on the draft regulatory text after the meeting. SANTE emphasized that before the group meeting, the draft version of the implementing regulation still needs to be formally validated by other departments within the committee, meaning that certain provisions may change.


Finally, the President of SANTE summarized the discussions regarding the proposed revisions to Regulation (EU) 2018/574 on the committee's implementation targets. They thanked the attendees for their positive contributions to the meeting and look forward to the next meeting in October 2022.


The main departments and personnel in attendance at the meeting were listed in alphabetical order based on their English initials.


The Ministry of Finance's Taxation and Customs Administration, the Ministry of Health, and the Departments of Social Affairs, Care, and Consumer Protection.


The Customs Administration and the Federal Public Service for Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment in Belgium.


Bulgarian National Customs Agency


The Customs Administration of Croatia.


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The Ministry of Agriculture, the Czech Agriculture and Food Inspection Authority, and the National Security Printing House of the Czech Republic.


[Denmark] The Danish Ministry of Health and the Danish Safety Technology Agency.


The Estonian Customs Agency


The Finnish Customs Administration, National Welfare and Health Monitoring Authority


[French] Customs and Indirect Taxation Authority


Germany's Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture


The Public Revenue Independent Authority, Department of Digital Governance, and General Secretariat of Public Administration Information Systems in Greece.


【Hungary】Regulatory Affairs Oversight Agency


Iceland's Ministry of Health.


In Ireland, the Ministry of Health and the Office of the Revenue Commissioners.


【Italy】Customs and Monopoly Agency


The State Revenue Service and the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Latvia.


[Lithuania] The State Tax Inspectorate of the Ministry of Finance.


The Customs and Excise Administration, as well as the Health Agency, in Luxembourg.


Officials at the Maltese Customs Agency.


A customs official from the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare, and Sport.


Norwegian Health Authority


The Polish Ministry of Finance, Polish Security Printing Works, and Tax Office.


Portuguese tax and customs authorities


Romanian Customs Authorities


The Data Center of the Ministry of Finance of the Slovak Republic is a subordinate bureau of the Ministry of Finance.


Slovenia's Financial Management


Tobacco Market Committee of Hacinehda Province, Spain.


Swedish Public Health Agency


Representative of the European Commission:


The European Union's Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE) has named Filip Borkowski, Dimitrios Apostolou, and Kleopatra-Maria Sakellari.


The European Union's anti-fraud commission (DG OLAF) has stated that Charlotte Merlier and Giuseppe Marra are under investigation.


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