DRUGS: 108 MEPs ASK FOR LEGAL CONTROL

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18/12/2002 | DRUGS: 108 MEPs ASK FOR LEGAL CONTROL

108 MEPs from 7 Political groups and 13 Member States - among whom 2 EP Vice-Presidents and 6 EP Committee Presidents - have tabled today a draft recommendation to ask for the Reform of the UN Conventions on Drugs. The collection of signature among citizens is starting.

CAPPATO:"THE RADICAL ANTIPROHIBITIONIST CAMPAIGN IN VIEW OF THE MEETING OF THE UN ON APRIL 2003 IN VIENNA START"

Declaration by Marco CAPPATO, Radical MEP of the Lista Bonino, "Parliamentarians for Antiprohibitionist Action" co-ordinator promoter of the initiative:

"The 108 MEPs have denounced that prohibitionism is the cause of harm because it is an obstacle to prevention, only leads to blind repression and causes rising profits to organised crime. The positive results offered by decriminalisation policies and medical heroin prescription programmes are underlined in the recommendation signed by the 108 MEPs. The text of the recommendation, as a petition, can be signed by citizens at the webpage http://www.radicalparty.org/lia_paa_appeal/ ."

Proposal for a recommendation to the Council on the reform of the UN Conventions on drugs:

The European Parliament (...)
1. Maintains that the drug prohibition policy stemming from the UN Conventions of 1961, 1971 and 1988 is the actual cause of the increasing damage which the production, trafficking, sale and consumption of illegal substances inflict on entire sections of society, the economy as well as public institutions, thus undermining health, freedom and individuals’ lives,
2. Urges the Council and the Member States to consider the positive results obtained through the implementation of policies in several countries, which involve harm and risk reduction (in particular through the administration of substitute substances), the decriminalisation of the consumption of certain substances, the partial decriminalisation of the sale of cannabis and its derivatives, and the medically controlled distribution of heroin,
3. Calls on the Council and the Member States to take action in order to make the fight against organized crime and drugs trafficking more effective, establishing a system for the legal control and regulation of the production, sale and consumption of substances which are currently illegal;
4. Calls on the Council and the Member States to initiate a process of revision of the UN Conventions on the occasion of the April 2003 Vienna mid-term review conference on UN drugs policies, in order to repeal or amend the 1961 and 1971 Conventions, with the aim of re-classifying substances and providing for other uses of drugs than only for medical and scientific purposes to be legal, and to repeal the 1988 Convention."

List of Signatories (108):

PPE: Jorge Moreira Da Silva, Paolo Pastorelli
PSE: José Maria Mendiluce Pereiro; Pasqualina Napoletano; Gianni Vattimo; Paulo Casaca; Maria Sornosa Martinez; Joke Swiebel; Helle Thorning-Schmidt; Giovanni Pittella; Renzo Imbeni, EP Vice-President ; Michael Cashman; Luís Marinho; Rosa Diez Gonzales; Carmen Cerdeira Morterero; Joaquim Vairinhos; Adeline Hazan; Giorgio Ruffolo: Fiorella Ghilardotti; Guido Sacconi; Michiel Van Hulten; Claudio Fava; Demetrio Volcic; Elena Paciotti; Hans-Peter Martin, EU-Slovakia Delegation President; Dorette Corbey; Margrietus van den Berg; Ieke van den Burg; Emilio Menendez del Valle; Sérgio Sousa Pinto; António Campos; Claudio Martelli; Manuel Antonio dos Santos; Elena Valenciano;
ELDR: Chris Davies; Luciana Sbarbati; Joan Vallvé; Marco Formentini; Elly Ploij-van Gorsel, EU-China Delegation President; Maria Johanne Sanders-Ten Holte; Lousewies Van Der Laan; Isidoro Sánchez García; Andrew Duff; Sarah Ludford; Bob van den Bos; Frédérique Ries; Nick Clegg; Jules Maaten; Johan Vanhecke;
V: Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Co-President of the Green Group; Kathalijne Buitenweg; Alain Lipietz; Miquel Mayol i Raynal; Alima Boumediene-Thiery; Helene Flautre; Claude Turmes; Alexander De Roo; Danielle Auroi; Jan Dhaene; Patsy Sörensen; Heide Rühle; Yves Pietrasanta; Johannes Voggenhuber; Joost Lagendijk, EU-Turkey Delegation President; Didier Rod; Eurig Wyn; Raina A. Mercedes Echerer; Caroline Lucas; Neil MacCormick; Jean Lambert; Monica Frassoni, Co-President of the Green Group; Bart Staes, EU-Russai Delegation President; Nelly Maes; Reinhold Messner; Paul Lannoye; Marie Anne Isler Béguin; Pierre Jonckheer; Hiltrud Breyer; Patricia Mc Kenna; Giorgio Celli; Theo Bouwman, Social Affairs Committee President; Gérard Onesta, EP Vice-President; Matti Wuori;
GUE: Pernille Frahm; Alain Krivine; Genevieve Fraisse; Ole Krarup; Giuseppe Di Lello; Helmut Markov; Lucio Manisco; Luigi Vinci; Erik Meijer; Fodé Sylla; Roseline Vachetta; Pedro Marset Campos; Fausto Bertinotti; Armando Cossutta; André Brie; Laura Gonzáles Álvarez
NI: Marco Cappato; Gianfranco Dell'Alba; Emma Bonino; Marco Pannella; Benedetto della Vedova; Maurizio Turco; Olivier Dupuis; Peter Sichrovsky
EDD: Ulla Sandbaek

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