Abstract

Peter Henning and Leonid Shmatenko discuss in this article the legal obstacles that are likely to be faced by proposed reforms to the European Union's ('EU') Tobacco Directive in EU law. The structure of the article is as follows: (1) Part 1 examines whether the EU Commission and Parliament have the legal competence to introduce plain packaging laws; (2) In Part 2, the authors discuss the likely compatibility of plain packaging laws with primary EU law, particularly the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and Article 34 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European ...