6th meeting of the Committee on National Alcohol Policy and Action

The 6th meeting of the The Committee on National Alcohol Policy and Action took place in Luxembourg on 27-28 January 2010.

At the meeting Mariann Skar, Secretary General of Eurocare, presented Eurocare's recommendations re alcohol warning labels and called on the Member States to introduce more informative labels that would allow consumers to make informed choices. Eurocare also presentedits preliminary library of warning labels.

Summary report [70 KB] Translations .

Presentations
Day 1 - Wednesday 27 January 2010

The Swedish EU Presidency - Expectations and Achievements [279 KB] Translations .
Karin Nilsson Kelly
Ministry of Health and Social Affairs, Sweden
Draft global strategy to reduce harmful use of alcohol [2 MB] Translations .
Dag Revke
WHO, Geneva
Establishing a European Information System on Alcohol and Health [649 KB] Translations .
Lars Moller
WHO, Copenhagen
Eurocare's view and recommendation on Labeling [5 MB] Translations .
Marianne Skar
Eurocare
Update on alcohol related Health Programme projects [531 KB] Translations .
Dirk Meusel
Executive Agency for Health and Consumers
The Austrian Alcohol Forum [601 KB] Translations .
Doris Kohl
Ministry of Health, Austria
Alcohol policy change in Bulgaria [602 KB] Translations .
Sonya Toteva
State Hospital for Treatment of Alcohol and Drug Addiction, Bulgaria

Day 2 - Thursday 28 January 2010

Alcohol Indicators - Update on work by the Committee on Data Collection, Indicators and Definitions [118 KB] Translations .
Gudrun Gudfinnsdottir
European Commission, DG Health and Consumers
Alcohol and Cancer [2 MB] Translations .
Dirk W. Lachenmeier
German Agency for Chemical and Veterinary Research
EU citizens' attitudes towards alcohol - Special Eurobarometer 331 (EB 72.3) [1003 KB] Translations .
Nicolas Bécuwe/Jean-Michel Lebrun
TNS Opinion
Excise duties on alcohol: the EU perspective [677 KB] Translations .
Stephen Kent/Frank Van Driessche
European Commission, DG Taxation and Customs Union