Hungarian Tobacco Producers against unemployment

A well balanced new EU Tobacco Products Directive is needed which takes in account health, employment and budgetary considerations. Also a new EU position is required for the amendment of the Framework Convention of Tobacco Control. These are the main messages of the meeting on the future of the European tobacco growing, hosted by AGRI Member of the European Parliament Mr. Csaba Tabajdi in Brussels.

The main focus of the event was to discuss the issues addressed by MEP Tabajdi to the European Commission earlier. Mr. Tabajdi recalled for attention on the employment-related consequences of a planned regulation which might have negative impact on and would fundamentally question the future of one of the European agriculture sectors – tobacco growing which provides jobs for 300,000 people in the countries of the EU.