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Dáil Éireann debate -
Thursday, 20 Nov 2003

Vol. 575 No. 1

Public Health (Tobacco) (Amendment) Bill 2003: Order for Second Stage.

Bill entitled an Act to give effect in part to Directive No. 2001/37/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 June 2001 (1) on the approximation of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States concerning the manufacture, presentation and sale of tobacco products; to give effect to Directive No. 2003/33/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 May 2003 (2) on the approximation of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States relating to the advertising and sponsorship of tobacco products; and for those and other purposes, and having regard to Council Recommendation of 2 December 2002 (3) on the prevention of smoking and on the initiatives to improve tobacco control, and the World Health Organisation Framework Convention on Tobacco Control done at Geneva on the 21st day of May 2003, to amend the Public Health (Tobacco) Act 2002.

I move: "That Second Stage be taken now."

Question put and agreed to.
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