Je veux parler de l’accord conclu avec Philip Morris et de l’accord conclu ensuite avec Japan Tobacco en décembre. Aux termes de ces accords, les plus grands groupes cigarettiers ont admis des irrégularités dans le commerce de cigarettes et ont accepté de verser des sommes substantielles au budget européen.
These are the Philip Morris agreement, and subsequently the Japan Tobacco agreement in December 2007, where the biggest tobacco corporations admitted that they had some shortcomings in dealing with fair trade in cigarettes, and paid substantial amounts of money to the EU budget; they are also cooperating very closely to fight cigarette smuggling, which is not in their interests either.
