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ICOSI NEWSLETTER
following 1w'
~t the meeting in Bermuda in Cctober 1980 the ~re
the main
decisions taken by the Board of Directors of
ICOSI. i
1. Secretary General. hary Cov4zgton a vice
President of J.blic Affair,
in Philip Morris will take over for at least two
years the ~4sk of
Secretary General of ICOSI. She hopes to be able
to take-up her
duties on approximately the 1 December 1980.
2. Office Move. The Secretariat vill move from
Brussels probably to-Geneva
soon as this can be arranged. It is hoped that the
physical move
will take place somewhere between December 1980
and January 1981.
As soon as we have exact dates and location we
will let you know.
3. Re-Allocation of costs. It was decided that the
basic Secretariat
costs should be equally divided between the six
members. At the
same time the costs of researzh in other work will
be divided pro
rats. to the global turnover of each company in
tobacco products.
Under this system BAT will pay 26 per cent (the
highest share) of
the other costs of TCOSI.
4. The Developing World Committee. This was
confirmed under the
chairmanship of Gwynn Hargrove. It was agreed that
two leaf men,
one from Imperial and one frz-n BAT, should be
attached to this
committee so that special work can be done on the
economic impact
of the operation of tobacco c--mpanies in the
developing world.
5. National manufacturers' associations. Strong
support was given to
the idea of continuing to develop the national
manufacturers'
associations wherever this might be needed.
Associated companies
of the members of ICOSI will "3e asked to give the
maximum support
to NMAs in their respective :ountries.
6. Longterm strttegic plan. An overall plan was
put forward for further
activities of ICOSI. With particular reference to
item 5 it was
recommended that the regional coordinators be
appointed in order to
reinforce and assist 'NMAs where needed in
different countries. The
new Secretary General will examine this proposal
once she has taken
up her post; it will Chen be iecided how this
recommendation will be
implemented. It is likely t':at we shall start
with a single
coordinator and see how it works.
7. Public position. A new committee was
recommended to examine the public
position of the industry. TI-e terms of reference
are due to be
discussed by the different c--mpanies and their
recommendations will be
sent to the Secretariat. Th;s matter is still
under discussion and we
will report to you later on -.-hat develops.
8. Advisory Committee. It was 4ecided that there
should be an Advisory
Committee representing the previous chairing
company, the current
chairing company and the nex: chairing company.
The heads of public
affairs of the companies res-pectively will sit on
this committee in
order to advise the Secretar-'v General on any
matters on which she
wishes to consult companies without going direct
to the Board of
Directors.
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9. Increasing membership. The Secretary General
would examine the question
of increasing membership both amongst private
companies and possibly
state monopolies as soon as she has settled into
her new post.
10. Background briefing papers. One company said
that they might have
difficulties with certain of the background
briefing papers. As a
result it was decided to recommend that a
disclaimer clause could be
used when necessary. It was also recommended that
an amendment be
made to the Charter to indicate that on any given
issues one or more
members might dissent. This question will be
examined further and
recommendations sent to the chairing company.
11. Allies. Considerable importance was attached
to this topic and plans
to mobilise the wholesale and retail organisations
as well as the
leaf growing industry were strongly endorsed.
Details will be worked
out by the various working parties.
12. Monitoring of international agencies. The
plans to monitor the various
international agencies were endorsed; this should
be done both centrally
and regionally and wherever possible in each
individual country where
such agencies may have offices.
13. Information service. Plans for this were
endorsed and each company
would now work together with ICOSI to put into
effect a fully
integrated information service. The
recommendations of the consultants
were accepted.
14. Fifth world health conference on smoking and
health, Winnipeg 1983.
It was agreed that the working party should
monitor this event in the
same way as it was done for Stockholm. The likely
chairman of the
working party was to be Mr Jules Hartog of Philip
Morris.
15. Workshop for national manufacturers'
associations (NMAs) . This event
will take place on 11, 12 and 13 November as
originally planned. The
main topics would be:
- the new information service,
- the social costs and social issues programme,
- the defence of advertising and how tDresist
restrictions.
From time to time over the coming months further
information will be
given about ICOSI. This will either take the form
of a special report or
reference will be made in circulars or the ?AN
newsletter.
Nb. As from the Sth December, ICOSI's name has
been changed to INFOTAB which
stands in English for International Tobacco
information Centre and in French
Centre International d'Information du Tabac. The
change of name will be
implemented and announced in approximately 2
months' time.
RLOE/PR
17 December 1980
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