Over 21's Only
WT is a trade event open to over 21's only.
Under 21's will not be admitted to the event.
Click here to view Abrie Du Plessis presentation
Update on WHO FCTC COP 10 what happened in February in particular:
Articles 17&18 (on economically sustainable alternatives to tobacco growing)
Articles 9&10 - testing and measuring of the contents and emissions of tobacco products, and their regulation as well as the disclosure of tobacco product information to governmental authorities and the public.
Abrie du Plessis taught Law at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa before he joined a multinational company as an Intellectual Property Practitioner. As part of several subsequent roles within the Tobacco Industry he spent more than a decade tracking the development of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). While based in Brussels he also followed the initial development of the 2014 European Union (EU) Tobacco Products Directive.
After retiring in 2013 he joined the South African Trade Law Centre (Tralac) as an Associate, with the focus on supporting African free trade initiatives. He still follows FCTC and EU developments and takes a special interest in the approach of the Convention and the EU towards novel and emerging tobacco and nicotine products, most of which did not exist when the final text of the Convention was agreed.
Being based in South Africa, he has also witnessed the increase in illicit trade in that country, at a time when the FCTC Protocol on Illicit Trade appears to be in a state of inertia.
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