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Bartlett, Oliver; Garde, Amandine --- "EU public health law and policy – on the rocks? A few sobering thoughts on the growing EU alcohol problem" [2017] ELECD 588; in Hervey, K. Tamara; Young, A. Calum; Bishop, E. Louise (eds), "Research Handbook on EU Health Law and Policy" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017) 369

Book Title: Research Handbook on EU Health Law and Policy

Editor(s): Hervey, K. Tamara; Young, A. Calum; Bishop, E. Louise

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781785364716

Section: Chapter 15

Section Title: EU public health law and policy – on the rocks? A few sobering thoughts on the growing EU alcohol problem

Author(s): Bartlett, Oliver; Garde, Amandine

Number of pages: 29

Abstract/Description:

Alcohol consumption is both a heavily-embedded cultural tradition in European States as well as a persistent source of non-communicable diseases with significant knock-on consequences for public health. Oliver Bartlett and Amandine Garde assess several areas of the EU’s involvement in alcohol policy: Member States’ alcohol policies and their international health context; the Court of Justice of the EU’s discussion of these measures in the context of free movement of goods rules; and the EU’s specific policies on alcohol. The contrast with EU tobacco policy is stark. The EU Commission has failed to rely sufficiently on evidence when making policy, and the CJEU has not fully captured the complexity of interests taken into account by Member States.