CONTENTS
Terms of Reference
Summary
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The International, Regional, National
and Local Background
The United Nations and the UN Conventions
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
(UNODC)
EU involvement
EU Drugs Strategies and Action Plans
Subsidiarity and the limits of EU involvement
Differences at national level
The Netherlands contrast
Portuguese decriminalisation
Policy reversals in the Czech Republic
The position on the ground
Chapter 3: The current EU Strategy and Action
Plan
Box 1: Summary of progress in 2000-2004
Box 2: Demand reduction and supply reduction
The 2009-2012 Action Plan
What has the 2005-2012 Strategy achieved?
Reduction in drug demand
Box 3: EMCDDA Annual Report for 2011
Reduction in drug supply
The global influence of the EU
Box 4: The strategy for external relations
Summary
Chapter 4: Drug Trafficking and Drug Controls
The fight against drug trafficking
Box 5: The Maritime Analysis and Operation
Centre—Narcotics
Human rights implications
Europol
Money laundering and seizure of the proceeds
of crime
EU development policy as a weapon against
drug supply
Box 6: Interrupting drug supply at source
Minimum penalties for trafficking
New psychoactive substances (NPS or legal
highs)
Chapter 5: Harm Reduction and Decriminalisation,
and their effects on public health
Decriminalisation
The Portuguese experience
Chapter 6: The European Monitoring Centre
Reliance on national data
Evaluation of initiatives to deal with drug
supply
EU research policy
Resources
Recommendations
Chapter 7: EU Institutional Questions
Responsibility for drugs policy in the
Commission
The Council Horizontal Drugs Group
Chapter 8: A Future EU Drugs Strategy
Does the EU need a Drugs Strategy at
all?
Box 8: The Commission's view on a new
Drugs Strategy in June 2009
The Communication of October 2011
Box 9: New powers under the Lisbon Treaty?
Box 10: Commission proposals for legislation,
October 2011
Informed public debate
What should the new Strategy say?
Chapter 9: Summary of Conclusions and Recommendations
Appendix 1: Sub-Committee F (Home Affairs)
Appendix 2: List of Witnesses
Appendix 3: Call for Evidence
Appendix 4: List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
Evidence is published online at www.parliament.uk/hleuf
and available for inspection at the Parliamentary Archives (020
7219 5314)
References in footnotes to the Report are as follows:
Q refers to a question in oral evidence
Witness names without a question reference refer
to written evidence.
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