Friday 18 - Workshop12, Alcohol taxes and public health in EU perspective

Objective: The objective of this workshop is to give an insight into EU activities in harmonising travellers' alcohol import allowances and alcohol excise duties and the attempts to construct public health programmes for alleviating the problems of alcohol use.

Sweden and the negotiations concerning increasing travellers' alcohol import allowances, Jenny Cisneros, SoRAD, Sweden

Harmonising alcohol excise duties in the EU, Esa Österberg and Thomas Karlsson, STAKES, Finland

EU's public health programme, Kari Paaso, Sanco, EU