title: [Recent initiatives of the European Union on the field of drug use and trafficking].
abstract: Moving from the general framework offered by the Treaties of the European Union and European Community, the paper presents the more recent specific initiatives of the Union in the field of fight against drugs and in particular on the European Union Plan of Action, adopted by the European Council in June 2000, and on the need for a global and balanced approach which it proposes as the main focus of the action of the European institutions. The paper then examines separately the initiatives taken both at the level of the reduction of the demand, mainly at the preventive and sanitary level, and of the supply reduction, of a mainly repressive character. Conclusively, the main initiatives in the field of international co-operation among the European Union and third Countries.
authors.affiliation: Rappresentanza Permanente d'Italia presso l'Unione Europea, 9/11 Rue du Marteau, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgio. gai@rpue.it
authors.forename: Lorenzo
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Salazar
mesh_terms: D003132:Commerce; D004335:Drug and Narcotic Control / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D005062:European Union; D006801:Humans; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000517:prevention & control*