The Chamber of Deputies approved the bill that “Approves the protocol for the elimination of illicit trade in tobacco products.” It went to the Executive for its promulgation or veto.
Chartistas raised the 12-month postponement of its implementation but did not get the votes. Some 37 deputies voted in favor of the modifications and 40 against, in addition to 3 absentees.
This protocol is complementary to the macro agreement of the World Health Organization (WHO) for tobacco control adopted in Geneva, Switzerland in 2003 and approved in Paraguay in 2006. The protocol was signed in 2012 and sent in in 2018 to Congress. He already had half a sanction from the Senate before his treatment on the date.
DETAILS
The objective of the document is to protect present and future generations from the environmental, health, social and economic consequences of exposure to tobacco smoke. Providing a framework for the control measures to be applied by the parties in order to reduce tobacco consumption and exposure to tobacco smoke.
It also aims to eliminate all forms of illicit tobacco trade, as well as establish infractions, address responsibilities and payments related to seizures and the elimination of confiscated products.
It seeks to promote international collaboration by promoting the exchange of information, technical cooperation and legal assistance. The application of the protocol will require close collaboration between the parties, to discover the origin of the production, the point at which they are diverted and the surveillance and control of tobacco products and their legal status.
GONZALEZ
Kattya González, a national deputy for the Encuentro Nacional party (PEN), stated that national and international experts shed light on this issue after a talk organized by the Parliamentary Front against Corruption and Impunity.
Marina Walker Guevara, deputy director of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists expressed the following in said talk; “The illicit trade in tobacco products is a multimillion-dollar business today that fuels organized crime and corruption. It robs governments of needed tax money and fuels addiction to a deadly product. So profitable is the trade that the most smuggled legal substance in the entire world,” she stated.
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