Independent Advisory Panel on characterising flavours in tobacco products – Call for expression of interest

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The European Commission is looking for experts in sensory analysis, chemical analysis and statistics to join a newly established independent advisory panel assisting Member States and the Commission in determining whether tobacco products have a characterising flavour.

Members of the panel will be appointed by the Commission on the basis of their expertise in one or several areas, as described in Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/786 (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32016D0786&from=EN) and in the official text for this call for applications(78 KB) (http://ec.europa.eu/health/tobacco/docs/2016_ap_call_en.pdf) .

Members will be appointed for a renewable term of five years.

More information on the determination of characterising flavours in tobacco products and the panel can be found here:

http://ec.europa.eu/health/tobacco/products/implementation/characterising_flavours_en.htm

The application procedure and the application form are available at the following address:

http://ec.europa.eu/health/tobacco/products/implementation/advisory_panel/call_en.htm

Please note that only online applications submitted at the above addresses will be eligible.

Deadline for submitting your application: 12:00 CET on 22 September 2016

Contact information

For any further information on this call, please contact

The Tobacco Control Team

Unit B2 – Health in all policies, global health, tobacco control
Health and Food Safety DG (SANTE) – European Commission
8 SANTE-B2-TOBACCO-CONTROL@ec.europa.eu