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“We must inceasingly promote a healthier environment and encourage tobacco users to quit smoking as the public deals with stress especially during this unprecedented times brought about by the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease) pandemic,” Abalos said on Monday, May 31, on the occasion of “World No Tobacco Day”.
He said the MMDA is committed to helping raise awareness on tobacco control by highlighting the ill effects of smoking to the public.
Abalos said the agency is working with all local government units (LGUs) in Metro Manila or NCR in monitoring public compliance on advertising and promotion, selling and display, and use of tobacco in public establishments, particularly near school premises.
UK in a Changing Europe academic think tank.
Speaking on Friday, Professor Hussein Kassim, one of the report’s authors, said the EU’s status as a “standard-setter”, and the fact that businesses are already “invested in existing regulatory systems” were several of the reasons why the UK faced a “formidable challenge”.
Although Boris Johnson’s government repeatedly stressed the importance of UK sovereignty and the need to “take back control” during the talks on the Withdrawal Agreement and subsequent trade pact, there is little sign in many sectors that regulation will diverge from EU standards.
It is only on immigration policy, where free movement has been replaced with a points-based system, and in agriculture, where a national subsidy scheme replaces the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy, that new laws, radically altering the legal landscape, have been passed.