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• UK goverment to respond quicker to newly emerging drugs

  With effect from 15 November 2011, the Home Secretary has the power under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 to invoke a temporary class drug order for a new psychoactive substance that is raising sufficient concern for government to act quickly to protect the public. Read more about UK goverment to respond quicker to newly emerging drugs

• World Aids Day 2011

  

  The EMCDDA and ECDC have contributed to a special issue of Eurosurveillance to mark World AIDS Day (1st December 2011). Read more about World Aids Day 2011

• Release of the "State of the Drugs Problem in Europe" Annual Report 2011

  

  Launching the 2011 Annual report, EMCDDA Director Wolfgang Götz said: ‘Europe’s drug policies and responses must now be configured to face the challenges of the next decade’. Read more about Release of the "State of the Drugs Problem in Europe" Annual Report 2011

• Council of European Union Conclusions on Psychoactive Substances

  

  The Council of the European Union invites the European Commission to table in 2012 a legislative proposal on new psychoactive substances with a view to revising the Council Decision 2005/387/JHA Read more about Council of European Union Conclusions on Psychoactive Substances

• EURAD's Response to the EC's Green Paper on Criminal Justice

  

  EURAD responds to the drug related issues in "Strengthening mutual trust in the European judicial area" – A Green Paper on the application of the EU criminal justice legislation in the field of detention. Read more about EURAD's Response to the EC's Green Paper on Criminal Justice