Press Release: The Commission adopts a new Drugs Action Plan for 2005-2008

The European Commission on 17 February 2005 adopted and sent to the Council and the European Parliament a EU Drugs Action Plan for 2005-2008 whose main aim is to significantly reduce the prevalence of drug use among the Union's population and to reduce the social harm and health damage caused in our countries by the use of and trade in illicit drugs. The Action Plan was to be discussed in the Council's Horizontal Group on Drugs, in view of its endorsement by the European Council during the first half of 2005.

• Primary Source

European Commission: COM (2005)45: Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council on a EU Drugs Action Plan (2005-2008) http://ec.europa.eu/comm/justice_home/doc_centre/drugs/antidrugs/docs/com_2005_45_en.pdf

European Commission: DG Justice, Freedom and Security: Documentation Centre: Drugs coordination: Action Plan http://ec.europa.eu/comm/justice_home/doc_centre/drugs/antidrugs/doc_drugs_action_plan_en.htm

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