The article 8 (protection against exposure to tobacco smoke) has made historic entrance in the FCTC Guinness book of record as the very first Article to be agreed on without delay. Perhaps there has been no article that generates so much heat during the COP2 than article 8 as delegates begin to arrive to the UNCC venue of this year's COP.
The provisions of Article 8 have made it so vital a guideline to the progress expected on FCTC implementation that NGO lobbyists prepared ahead of time to help ensure necessary progress without delay in the adoption of the guidelines for the Article.
The Framework Convention Alliance (FCA), Corporate Accountability International, Global Smokefree Partnership had been major drivers of change that ensured that the Article 8 was unanimously adopted at the COP2 without unncessary delay.
Committee A unanimously agreed to adopt the draft guidelines on the protection from exposure to tobacco smoke (Article 8).
It is important to state that the text of the guidelines was not opened up for discussion, whereas just a slight changes were made to the preamble.
These are the first guidelines of the Framework Convention on Tobacco on Control (FCTC) which has since been forwarded to the plenary for adoption in a few days.
Indeed the heat around the venue of the COP2 has subsided with steady progress being made continuously.
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