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Health ministers met for an informal Council meeting in Dublin, with tobacco reform, the Biotech Act and medical devices topping the agenda.

The European Commission is “very well advanced” in preparing an overhaul of EU tobacco rules that will address newer products including vapes and heated tobacco, Health Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi said Thursday, as health ministers discussed rising nicotine use among young people.

Speaking after an informal meeting of EU health ministers in Dublin, Várhelyi said the Commission remained committed to publishing a comprehensive review of tobacco legislation, including advertising rules, this year.

“We are very well advanced in the preparation of the proposals,” Várhelyi told a press conference alongside Irish Health Minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill....

PHOTO CREDIT: Olivér Várhelyi, European Commissioner for Health and Animal Welfare and Jennifer Carroll Mac Neill, Minister for Health of Ireland at informal EPSCO in Dublin, Ireland © European Union

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