Concetta Fierravanti-Wells (NSW, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Ageing) Share this | Hansard source

I want to go to articles 15 and 20 of the World Health Organisation framework, which recommend implementing a track-and-trace regime for tobacco products and strengthening the legislation against illicit trade in tobacco products. My concern is that the government has instead let the tobacco companies manage their own tracking of tobacco products, on a voluntary basis, and this is despite article 7.2 of the draft protocol to eliminate illicit trade in tobacco products, as published by the World Health Organisation, and article 7.12, which states:

Obligations assigned to a Party—

of the framework convention on tobacco control—

shall not be performed by or delegated to the tobacco industry.

Minister, I am surprised that your advisers are not aware of those provisions, given that they were also the subject of consideration in the committee hearing.