EFA

On 12 April 2006 the European Commission's Directorate General for Health published  Decision amending Commission Decision C(2005) concerning the size and rendering of colour photographs or other illustrations on tobacco product packaging, warning about the negative health effects of smoking. The possibility of Member States either supplementing or alternating colour photographs and written warnings on tobacco product packaging was taken by a European Commission Decision in 2003 with effect from 2004, though the creation of a library of approved images and technical amendments such as this one show that this process has taken longer than expected.