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Overview of EU Drug Policy
Fay Watson
Competencies at EU Level
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Information collection and exchange (HDG, COSI, EMCDDA)
Cross border trafficking
Cross border asset recovery (legislative work on this one)
Movement of chemicals across border (i.e. drug precursors,
psychoactive substances)
• International liaison with drug producing countries
• International liaison at United Nations
Areas outside of EU competence
• Drug prevention (education, community
programmes, media campaigns)
• Provision of treatment services
• Scheduling of illicit drugs
BUT…..
• The biggest impact of last EU Drug Strategy
was its’ impact of promoting harm reduction
• Investment in drug prevention
• Softly shaping national policies
How we work with the
European Union Institutions
• Worked on paper for the Civil Society Forum on Drugs to be
presented to the European Commission
• Presented findings from Civil Society on behalf of entire forum
alongside Correlation Network to all Member States and Danish
Presidency
• One of two NGO’s chosen to be invited to take part in EC Expert
Seminars on Psychoactive Substances
• Sub-group leader for one Civil Society Forum Workgroup
• Responded to internal stakeholder consultation on next EU Drug
Strategy and public consultation
Current EU Level Work
• Legal package on psychoactive substances,
drug precursors and asset recovery from drug
trafficking
• New EU Drug Strategy!