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"Mr President, as rapporteur on the Tobacco Products Directive I would like to address the President-in-Office to put on records my thanks to her Presidency for the commitment it showed to reaching agreement on the Directive. In particular I would like to thank Minister Vytenis Andriukaitis for his determination to reach agreement; Ambassador Vinciunas, who I can see is here this morning; and the chair of the working group, Martynas Pukas, who did a tremendous job to make sure that we were able to reach agreement between Parliament and Council on 16 December 2013, almost one year to the day since the Commission presented the Tobacco Products Directive to the outside world.
We know that the Tobacco Products Directive had a very difficult birth. We know all about the intense lobbying and people trying to delay it, trying to push it into the long grass and to undermine it. I hope that all the institutions will learn lessons about what happened and that we will all look at the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and implement in full its recommendations on transparency and lobbying.
I think the agreement that we have reached is a good one. I said at the beginning that the EU has to play catch-up with many other countries in the world on tobacco control. We know that Australia, the US and Canada are ahead of us, but so too is Brazil, where tough tobacco control measures have seen the proportion of smokers drop from 37 % to 15 %. We are, of course, going to have a vote in this House, hopefully in late February. I hope that we will reach agreement and that this will indeed be a testimony to the work of the Lithuanian Presidency, which will be a real legacy."@en1
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