Drugs package: Tackling new psychoactive substances
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23-10-2017
Improving the EU's response to the rapid spread of new psychoactive substances has become urgent, and consequently Parliament is due to vote on a 'drugs package' during the October II plenary session. The package makes additions to the directive setting common minimum rules on criminal acts and penalties in the field of illicit drug trafficking, as well as corresponding amendments to the founding regulation of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA).
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- criminal law
- drafting of EU law
- drug surveillance
- drug traffic
- EU institutions and European civil service
- European construction
- European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction
- EUROPEAN UNION
- European Union law
- Europol
- health
- judicial cooperation in criminal matters in the EU
- LAW
- market approval
- marketing
- penalty
- psychotropic substance
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- TRADE