The European Commission is planning to start up a dialogue process with civil society on drug policy this year. In the month of september 2007, a budget of approx. 1 million EURO per year should become available for citizens’ associations to take part in a dialogue structure. ENCOD believes it is important that all civil […]
In the end of June 2006, after many years of lobbying by ENCOD and others to establish a forum for dialogue between civil society and authorities in the European Union to discuss the impact of current drug policies, the Drugs Coordination Unit of the European Commission (DCU) produced a Green Paper on the upcoming dialogue […]
Analysis of civil society comments to European Commission Green Paper on the role of civil society in drug policy in the EU
On November 7th, 2006, at the Conference “The Road to Vienna 2008” that took place in the European Parliament in Brussels, the following declaration has been agreed upon with the support of Members of the European Parliament from two political groups (GUE/NGL and GREENS) and representatives of more than 50 NGO´s, as well as local […]
In a joint statement, Member of European Parliament Giusto Catania, rapporteur on drugs policy of the Committee of Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, and ENCOD, platform of European NGO’s working in the field of drugs, regret the approval, on Monday 27 June, of a new EU Action Plan on Drugs for the period 2005 […]
On Monday 27 June 2005, a new EU Action Plan on Drugs (2005-2008) will be approved. On this occasion, ENCOD sent a letter to the Members of the EU Horizontal Working Party on Drugs, the formal decision-making body in the European Union when it comes to drug policies.
