Commission proposes a new EU Action Plan on Drugs to enhance action against drug use and trafficking

On the 15 March 2017 the European commission proposed a new EU Action Plan on Drugs for the period 2017-2020.

Building on the findings of the evaluation of the EU Drugs Strategy for 2013-2020 and the Action Plan for 2013-2016, the new Action Plan on Drugs provides a strengthened response to the newly-emerging health and security challenges in the area of illicit drug use and trafficking. While maintaining and updating the core policy areas and cross-cutting themes of the overall EU Drugs Strategy, the new Action Plan identifies new priority areas for action, including the monitoring of new psychoactive substances as well as the use of new communication technologies for prevention of drug abuse and evidence gathering on the potential connection between drug trafficking and financing of terrorist groups, organised crime, migrant smuggling or trafficking in human beings.

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: Report from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council on progress in the EU's 2013-2020 drugs strategy and 2013-2016 action plan on drugs http://www.europeansources.info/record/report-from-the-commission-to-the-european-parliament-and-the-council-on-progress-in-the-eus-2013-2020-drugs-strategy-and-2013-2016-action-plan-on-drugs/

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