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House of Lords prepares EU Alcohol Strategy
The House of Lords is inviting contributions for its new inquiry into EU Alcohol Strategy, covering minimum pricing, binge drinking and advertising.
The House of Lords is seeking input for its inquiry into a new EU Alcohol Strategy
The upper house’s Home Affairs, Health and Education EU sub-committee is currently considering what the content of the next European Union Alcohol Strategy should be.
In 2006, the European Commission proposed the first strategy, which came to an end in 2012.
It was designed to help EU Member States to reduce alcohol-related illnesses and diseases amongst their citizens, and identified five priority themes to concentrate actions on for the next six years.
“We want to investigate how successful the current strategy has been at achieving its aims and, in light of this, make suggestions about the content of the new strategy and how it might be more effective,” said Baroness Prashar, chairman of the committee.”
“Therefore, I would encourage anyone with the relevant experience or expertise to contribute to our inquiry.”
The committee is now asking questions surrounding whether there should be another EU Alcohol strategy, if the EU’s existing policies are in line the World Health Organisation (WHO), and whether the EU Court of Justice should do more to balance to the aims of the single market with the wishes of individual member states to promote public health.
The deadline for submitting written evidence to the committee is Friday 19 September 2014.
For more information, or to submit evidence, go to the UK Parliament’s website.