COP4: Meeting resources page

The fourth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP-4) to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) takes place in Punta del Este, Uruguay, 15–20 November 2010. 

FCA COP4 documents

The Bulletin

• Download the daily Bulletins
  

Policy documents

• Document guide
• About the FCA
• Article 6 guidelines - Why Health Ministries should support them
• Article 6 policy briefing
• Article 6 FCTC
• Articles 9 & 10 - guidelines for FCTC 
• Articles 9 & 10: Misinformation about tobacco flavours
• Article 12 policy briefing
• Article 14 policy briefing
• Articles 17 and 18: Policy briefing - Working group on economically sustainable alternatives to tobacco growing
• Article 19 (Liability): Policy briefing - elaboration of recommendations on appropriate means to support implementation of Article 19
• Policy briefing on adoption of measures for international cooperation to eliminate tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship
• Control and prevention of smokeless tobacco products and electronic cigarettes 
• Policy briefing - FCTC implementation and international trade and investment rules
  
• Next steps on illicit trade
• Time to put implementation review back on the agenda
• Policy Briefing: Financial Resources and Mechanisms of Assistance
• Policy Briefing: International Cooperation and Opportunities for the FCTC
• Policy briefing: UN High Level Meeting on the Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Diseases
• Policy briefing: Standardisation and harmonisation of data and data collection initiatives
• Policy briefing: Workplan and budget of the Conference of the Parties
• Policy briefing: Addressing the relationship between FCTC implementation and international trade and investment rules
• Policy briefing: Standardisation and harmonisation of data and data collection initiatives
• Policy Briefing: Report by the Convention Secretariat on control and prevention of smokeless tobacco products and electronic cigarettes
• Cover Note for FCA Briefing Papers related to COP Agenda Items 6.3, 6.4 and 6.5
• Legal analysis of the agreements between the European Union, Member States, and multinational tobacco companies

Media documents

• Global community unites against tobacco industry interference
• COP-4 delivers progress on global tobacco control 
• View images from COP-4
• NGO blasts Philippine COP-4 delegation
• Lifting the smoke screen on big tobacco (report)
• Latin America leads global progress developing new smoke-free policy
• Successes underscore need for more action on tobacco treaty (FCA releases Tobacco Watch report)
• The FCTC (also in French, Spanish, Arabic, Russian and Chinese)
• Media briefing about Tobacco and Development
  
• Industry attacks FCTC under guise of protecting farmers
• Media briefing: Tobacco taxes
• Death clock to start COP-4
• Media briefing: The FCTC global resonse

Media roundup

• COP-4 media coverage roundup

Articles up for discussion and adoption during COP-4 are:

• Article 6: Price and tax
• Article 9&10: Product regulation
• Article 12: Education and training
• Article 13: Tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship
• Article 14: Cessation  
• Article 17/18: Alternative livelihoods and environments
• Article 19: Liability

Other issues on the agenda include:

• An illicit trade protocol
• Reports of the Parties and global progress report on implementation
• Data and data collection initiatives
• Financial resources and mechanisms of assistance

Attack by ITGA on Articles 9/10

• View all of our information on this issue

Documents and articles from other organisations

• COP-4 final decisions   
• COP-4 provisional agenda 
• WHO FCTC COP-4 documents
• COP-4 WHO media advisory

Follow up with Media

Successful Outcomes from COP-4, in:

• English
• French
• Spanish