There was no Dirty Ashtray Award today.
The Orchid Award goes to the INB Bureau for a protocol for a way forward and to the many delegates who shared the commitment to the process by seeking technical work to be completed and calling for regional meetings before INB3.
The Dirty Ashtray Award goes to Canada and Japan for consistently trying to prevent mandatory provisions for the control of the supply chain
The Orchid Award goes to the EC and Rwanda for supporting the explicit inclusion of transit and free trade zones in the protocol.
The Dirty Ashtray Award goes to all parties "which proposed the need for flexibility: a euphemism for weakening the protocol."
The Orchid Award goes to China "for recognizing the need to include tobacco leaf and tobacco manufacturing equipment in order to insure a strong protocol".
The Dirty Ashtray Award goes to Brazil "for its illogical and obstructionist positions which have slowed down negotiations this week". (FCA bulletin 76 page 6)
The Orchid Award goes to the Philippines "for recognizing that the tobacco industry should carry the cost of the implementation of the protocol".
The Dirty Ashtray Award goes to Barbados "for arguing there is no link between duty free and illicit trade when this link is well established (see yesterday's bulletin)."
The Orchid Award goes to Africa "for highlighting the need to overcome the disparity in capacity between the rich and poor countries if the protocol is to be implemented effectively".
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