{"id":4372,"date":"2020-03-12T13:13:44","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T13:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=4372"},"modified":"2020-03-12T13:13:44","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T13:13:44","slug":"report-says-other-officials-guilty-of-dallis-infraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=4372","title":{"rendered":"Report says other officials guilty of Dalli\u2019s infraction"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"art\"><\/figure>\n<header>\n<h1>Report says other officials guilty of Dalli\u2019s infraction<\/h1>\n<p class=\"subhead\">Meetings with tobacco lobbyists are allegedly rife throughout the European Commission. <\/p>\n<\/header>\n<footer class=\"meta\">\n<p class=\"byline\">European Voice<\/p>\n<\/footer>\n<footer class=\"meta\">\n<p>\n\t\t\tBy\t\t\t<span class=\"byline\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"vcard\">Dave Keating<\/span>\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"timestamp\"><time datetime=\"2012-12-14T04:39:50+00:00\">12\/14\/12, 4:39 AM CET<\/time><\/p>\n<p class=\"updated\">Updated <time datetime=\"2014-06-17T16:45:56+00:00\">6\/17\/14, 4:45 PM CET<\/time><\/p>\n<\/footer>\n<p>A report released by Corporate Europe Observatory today (14 December) concludes that undeclared meetings with tobacco lobbyists, the purported reason for this dismissal of former EU health commissioner John Dalli, are rife throughout the European Commission.<\/p>\n<p>The Commission has yet to disclose the specific reasons for Dalli\u2019s dismissal. But in response to 154 questions put forward by MEPs on the subject, the EU executive implied that the fact that Dalli held meetings with tobacco lobbyists without disclosing them to the Commission was because of a breach of the Commission\u2019s code of conduct.<\/p>\n<p>Giovanni Kessler, the head of the EU\u2019s anti-fraud office OLAF which conducted the Dalli investigation, mentioned to MEPs that Dalli\u2019s undeclared meetings were also in violation of an article in the World Health Organisation\u2019s (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, to which the EU is a signatory. The convention requires that any meetings with the tobacco industry be conducted in a transparent way.<\/p>\n<p>But the CEO report reveals that, in fact, the Commission\u2019s health department appears to have been the most compliant with the WHO rules. \u201cThe rest of the European Commission seems to simply ignore the WHO rules,\u201d concludes the report, adding that the health department, \u201cwas the only one which showed any signs of implementing a transparency policy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report outlines a number of meetings that took place between other Commission departments and tobacco lobbyists that were not declared. This includes several meetings between Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso\u2019s cabinet and his department\u2019s Secretariat-General has had several undisclosed meetings with tobacco industry lobbyists, according to a freedom of information request filed by CEO.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Dalli\u2019s resignation is based on a violation of the WHO rules, then numerous high-level Commission officials should also resign,\u201d the report concludes. \u201cThe Commission has not fully implemented the WHO guidelines despite obligations to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the European Commission said that the meetings referred to by the report, &#8220;have been handled properly, in accordance with the rules applicable, and we have been transparent about them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Commission has met with several anti-tobacco campaigners over the years,&#8221; she added. &#8220;No rules were violated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The European Health Alliance has asked Tonio Borg, the new health commissioner, to commit to not meeting tobacco lobbyists. Borg has not responded to the request.<\/p>\n<p>The revision of the Tobacco Products Directive, which sparked off the Dalli controversy, will\u00a0be put forward\u00a0next Wednesday (19 December), a month earlier than expected.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<footer class=\"content-credits\">\n<h6>Authors:<\/h6>\n<dl class=\"vcard\">\n<dt class=\"credits-author\"><span class=\"vcard\">Dave Keating<\/span>&nbsp;<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/footer>\n<p>Click Here: <a href='https:\/\/www.kankenbags.com\/cheap-kanken-backpack\/fjallraven-kanken-art-spring-landscape-backpacks' title='Fjallraven Kanken Art Spring Landscape Backpacks'>Fjallraven Kanken Art Spring Landscape Backpacks<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Report says other officials guilty of Dalli\u2019s infraction Meetings with tobacco lobbyists are allegedly rife throughout the European Commission. European Voice By Dave Keating 12\/14\/12, 4:39 AM CET Updated 6\/17\/14, 4:45 PM CET A report released by Corporate Europe Observatory today (14 December) concludes that undeclared meetings with tobacco lobbyists, the purported reason for this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}