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"The Commission is making a serious mistake by entertaining contacts with the tobacco industry to renew EU agreements. The initial agreements were born from a settlement to a case where the Commission accused three tobacco manufacturing giants of being part of a global scheme to smuggle cigarettes, launder the profits of narcotics, fix prices, bribe officials and conduct illegal trade with terrorist groups. Yet these companies have been put in charge of monitoring counterfeiting in tobacco smuggling seizures, paying the authorities whenever these are found to be genuine so, unsurprisingly, they have found only 0.5% of seized shipments in 2012 to be genuine. This is a mockery of enforcement and, what is worse, never has a sample been analysed by an independent laboratory, and we know very little of the specifics behind this scheme. The Commission was asked by the EP to conduct a proper assessment of this scheme back in 2012, and this is long overdue. What is more outrageous is that, while these talks are going on, these very same big tobacco companies are challenging the Tobacco Products Directive in the ECJ. Instead, we should be working on how to ratify and implement the WHO Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products, which the Commission rightly wants the Council to do."@en1
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