Stopping the Smugglers: Proposals for an Additional Protocol to the World Health Organization's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (original) (raw)

2002, Melbourne Journal of International Law

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Abstract

The members of the World Health Organization are currently engaging in extensive negotiations to find a way of controlling the global 'tobacco epidemic'. Central to the WHO's tobacco control efforts is a Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. Tobacco smuggling is a major contributor to the global epidemic. This article examines the necessity of a proposed protocol on the suppression of smuggling to the Framework Convention and suggests essential elements for a model protocol.]

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  2. Ibid § § 8.20-8.21.
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  5. The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: A Primer, above n 3, 2.
  6. Draft Framework Convention, above n 2, 6.
  7. Ibid pt II, D(2).
  8. Ibid pt II, D(3).
  9. Ibid pt II, D(4).
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  11. On the weaknesses of the existing regime, see generally Fatma-Zohra Ouhachi-Vesely, Special Rapporteur on Illicit Moving and Dumping of Toxic Waste, Report to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights: Adverse Effects of the Illicit Movement and Dumping of Toxic and Dangerous Products and Wastes on the Enjoyment of Human Rights, UN Doc E/CN.4/2001/55 (2001) [77].
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  13. Opened for signature 30 March 1961, 520 UNTS 151 (entered into force 13 December 1964).
  14. Opened for signature 21 February 1971, 1019 UNTS 175 (entered into force 16 August 1976).
  15. Opened for signature 25 March 1972, 976 UNTS 105 (entered into force 8 August 1975).