Luk Joossens, our Senior Advisor and Erin Roman, our  Director, contributed to a blog on tobacco control. 
They discuss whether nearly 200 billion unique identifiers on EU tobacco products are truly helping to investigate illicit tobacco trade. Moreover, they note that although the EU’s Tracking and Tracing (T&T) system has been operational for several years and holds vast amounts of data, no public evaluation has shown how effectively it supports investigations or law enforcement.
At the global level, they highlight progress under the WHO FCTC Protocol, but stress that many countries still need technical and financial support to establish independent T&T systems. They call for greater transparency, reporting, and law enforcement involvement to ensure these systems genuinely help combat illicit trade.

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