Following the submission by the National Anti-Smoking Committee to the State Prosecutor in France of a complaint against the French subsidiaries of four cigarette manufacturers (British American Tobacco, Philip Morris, Japan Tobacco and Imperial Brand) citing ‘deliberate endangerment of persons unknown’, which is based on the claim that the manufacturers in question placed on the market cigarettes whose filters had been manipulated, with the result that their actual emission levels for tar, nicotine, carbon monoxide are significantly higher than those officially verified, can the Commission give assurances that all the provisions of Directive 2014/40/EU, and in particular those referred to above, are being enforced in all the Member States and complied with by cigarette manufacturers?
Tar éis an gearán a rinne an Coiste Náisiúnta in aghaidh Caitheamh Tobac le hIonchúisitheoir Poiblí na Fraince i gcoinne fochuideachtaí Francacha de cheithre chuideachta toitíní (British American Tobacco, Philipp Morris, Japan Tobacco agus Imperial Brand) as “daoine eile a chur i mbaol d’aon ghnó” bunaithe ar an bhfíric go líomhnaítear go raibh na toitíní lena mbaineann curtha ar an margadh trí ionramháil a dhéanamh ar scagairí na dtoitíní, ar toitíní iad a raibh a leibhéil dháiríre tarra, nicitín agus aonocsaíde carbóin ceaptha a bheith i bhfad níos airde ná na luachanna oifigiúla, an féidir leis an gCoimisiún a ráthú go bhfuil forálacha uile Threoir 2014/40/AE, agus go háirithe na forálacha thuasluaite, á gcur chun feidhme go hiarbhír sna Ballstáit go léir agus go bhfuil siad á n-urramú ag na cuideachtaí tobac?not-set not-set