Adlaw: France prohibits all tobacco and alcohol promotion from 1993

Ross Denton

Council of Ministers fails to agree on restriction of tobacco advertising, but this does not hinder individual Member States; France has imposed a complete ban from 1993, on pain of heavy fines.

EC tobacco ad ban blocked but commissioner will try again

France prohibits all tobacco and alcohol promotion from 1993

Ross Denton

As expected, the council of health ministers could not establish a common position in relation to the restrictions on advertising of tobacco products at its meeting on December 3, 1990.

The UK, Germany and Netherlands stressed their opposition to the proposed Directive. The UK felt that the proposal was outside the competence of the Community, and stressed that a self-regulatory scheme of controls on advertising such as that operated in the UK was much more appropriate than...

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