烟草在线据《烟业通讯》报道编译　　菲莫国际表示，提议修改欧盟的《烟草产品指令（TPD）》将是对烟草黑市罪犯们的一份礼物，但对于政府收入和合法烟草业是一个打击。

　　“在过去5年中，欧盟已经忽略了其制订政策的适当性和基于证据的标准，《烟草产品指令》也正被考虑，”菲莫国际的欧盟区总裁德拉戈·阿兹诺维克说。

　　阿兹诺维克就欧盟委员会、议会和理事会对《烟草产品指令》达成修改协议做出评论。

　　“在欧洲理事会和欧洲议会的讨论可能略微修改了原文，但欧盟的这个失败，将是送给从烟草黑市获利的犯罪分子的一份礼物，该失败不仅打击了成千上万的在烟草业合法工作的人，还将使各成员国面临预算缺口，”阿兹诺维克说。

　　“该《指令》既定的目标不是进一步统一内部市场，《烟草产品指令》中采取的措施将进一步削弱欧盟宪章所保护的财产权。这还对其它经济部门发出了一个令人担忧的信号，这些经济部门依赖于法律的确定性和对知识产权的严格保护。”

　　新《指令》仍然被欧洲理事会和欧洲议会正式通过，新《指令》在法律措辞版本定稿后将被投票。

　　一旦新《指令》被各成员国采纳，各成员国将有两年的时间将新规则纳入本国法律。

PMI says EU failed to do homework on revision of tobacco products directive

　　Philip Morris International says that proposed revisions to the EU's Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) will be a gift to black market criminals but a blow to government revenues and to people working in the licit tobacco industry.

　　"The EU has ignored its own standards for proportionate, evidenced-based policymaking during the five years that the Tobacco Products Directive has been under consideration," said PMI's EU region president, Drago Azinovic.

　　He was commenting on an agreement reached between the European Commission, Parliament and Council on the proposed TPD revisions.

　　"Discussions in Council and the European Parliament might have marginally amended the original text, but the EU's failure to do its homework will be a gift for the criminals profiting from the black market in tobacco, and a blow to the hundreds of thousands of people working in the legal industry and member state governments now faced with filling budget gaps," said Azinovic.

　　"Instead of further harmonizing the internal market, a stated objective of the directive, measures in the TPD will further erode property rights that the EU Charter protects. This sends a worrying signal to other sectors of the economy that depend on legal certainty and a rigorous defense of intellectual property rights."

　　The new directive has still to be formally adopted by the European Parliament and the Council, which will vote on it only after the legal-linguistic revision of the text has been finalised. And once the directive is adopted member states will have two years to transpose the new rules into national law.