See Doc. 89, Report. 1950 - 2nd Session - First part
1 RESOLUTION adopted
26th August 1950, at the conclusion of the Debate on the Report
from the Committee on Economic Questions
The Assembly,
Having examined the Document 29 submitted by MM. Tsaldaris
and Rodopoulos on a Tobacco Monopoly, decides :
1 Not to recommend the setting
up of a European tobacco monopoly with a view to financing the activities
of the Council of Europe by the provision of a set percentage of
its income.
2 Approving the terms contained in the Recommendation of
the Committee on Economic Questions with regard to agricultural
production and in particular Para. 1 (d), asks it to pursue its
general examination already under way with regard to the solution
of the problem of agricultural surpluses, from the angle of the
cultivation of tobacco. This measure is all the more desirable in
that it would assist in reducing the dollar deficit and that there
is, at the present lime, a surplus of European tobacco that could be
absorbed by Member States of the Council of Europe.
3 Asks the Economic Committee when considering Ibis question
to take into account the supply of tobacco from the overseas territories
and associated countries of the Members of the Council of Europe.
