Press Release: Drugs: MEPs back rules to take harmful “legal highs” off the market faster

On 17 April 2014, in its last plenary session before the May 2014 European elections, the European Parliament gave its strong backing (­­507 in favour of the Regulation, 37 against and 33 abstentions) to the Commission's proposal to tackle rapidly emerging new psychoactive substances used as alternatives to illicit drugs.

The new rules will equip the EU with a quicker and smarter system to protect the more than 2 million citizens in Europe taking pills or powders sold to them as ‘legal’.

ESO: Background information: New psychoactive substances: European Parliament committee backs Commission proposal http://www.europeansources.info/record/memo-new-psychoactive-substances-european-parliament-committee-backs-commission-proposal/

European Commission: RAPID: Press Release, IP/14/461: New psychoactive substances: European Commission proposal gets green light from the European Parliament http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-14-461_en.pdf

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