The House of Lords Home Affairs, Health and Education EU Sub-Committee in the UK is seeking contributions to its new inquiry into the EU’s Alcohol Strategy.
The new contributions will help the committee to create the next European Union Alcohol Strategy.
As part of the inquiry, the Committee is considering several aspects such as the necessity of creating new alcohol strategy and whether the mechanisms created in the last strategy are still appropriate.
European Commission's first Alcohol Strategy in October 2006 was designed to help EU Member States to reduce alcohol-related illnesses and diseases amongst their citizens.
The previous strategy had identified five priority themes for action such as protecting young people, including children and the unborn child; reducing injuries and deaths from alcohol-related road accidents.
The themes also include preventing alcohol-related harm among adults and reducing the negative impact in workplaces; educating people and raising awareness of the impact and dangers of alcohol abuse; and developing and maintaining a record of similar cases across the EU.
Committee chairman Baroness Prashar said that plans have now come up to draft a new strategy, as the last strategy has come to an end in 2012 and the new one will be valid from 2016 through 2022.
"We want to investigate how successful the current Strategy has been at achieving its aims and, in light of this, make suggestions about the content of the new Strategy and how it might be more effective.
"Therefore, I would encourage anyone with the relevant experience or expertise to contribute to our inquiry," added Prashar.
