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Pompidou Group
The Council of Europe International Cooperation Group on Drugs and Addiction, also known as Pompidou Group (French: Groupe Pompidou; and formerly Cooperation Group to Combat Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking in Drugs) is the co-operation platform of the Council of Europe on matters of drug policy currently composed of 42 countries. It was established as an ad'hoc inter-governmental platform in 1971 until its incorporation into the Council of Europe in 1980. Its headquarters are in Strasbourg, France.
During the 1960s, the "French Connection", a large-scale drug smuggling scheme allowing the import of heroin into the United States via Turkey and France, raised international concerns. On 6 August 1971, former French President Georges Pompidou sent a letter to his counterparts of Germany, Belgium, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom expressing his concerns and proposing a joint effort "to better understand and tackle the growing drug problems in Europe." It has been suggested the initiative was pressed by a letter addressed to Pompidou by U.S. President Rixhard Nixon in 1969.
The Group was officially launched at the first ministerial meeting held in Paris on 4 November 1971. According to its website:
"Until 1979, the group operated without a formal status supported by the countries holding its presidency: France from 1971 to 1977 and Sweden from 1977 to 1979. The group developed as a sui generis entity throughout the 1970s, and three other countries (Denmark, Ireland and Sweden) joined it during that decade."
After the death of Pompidou in 1974, the group started to informally adopt the name "Pompidou Group."
On 27 March 1980, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe adopted Resolution (80)2, integrating the Pompidou Group into the institutional framework of the Council as an inter-governmental body, after which numerous countries joined it.
As the European integration process and expansion of Schengen Area took over many drug-related areas of competences of European countries, the Pompidou Group reoriented its action towards monitoring. It publishes on a number of topics such as review of seizures carried out at borders, guidelines for custom officers, drug markets, and epidemiology. Since 1989, the Group started working on human rights, health, prevention (including the role of police in drug use prevention), and more recently on harm reduction and HIV/AIDS. Since 2004, the Group now awards every two years a "European Drug Prevention Prize" to drug prevention projects involving young people. More recently, the group has started involving on topics such as addiction to the internet, trade in precursors, on-line drug sales, gender-related issues, prison policies, etc.
In 1999 and 2010, the group signed Memoranda of Understanding with the EU's European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction.
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Pompidou Group
The Council of Europe International Cooperation Group on Drugs and Addiction, also known as Pompidou Group (French: Groupe Pompidou; and formerly Cooperation Group to Combat Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking in Drugs) is the co-operation platform of the Council of Europe on matters of drug policy currently composed of 42 countries. It was established as an ad'hoc inter-governmental platform in 1971 until its incorporation into the Council of Europe in 1980. Its headquarters are in Strasbourg, France.
During the 1960s, the "French Connection", a large-scale drug smuggling scheme allowing the import of heroin into the United States via Turkey and France, raised international concerns. On 6 August 1971, former French President Georges Pompidou sent a letter to his counterparts of Germany, Belgium, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom expressing his concerns and proposing a joint effort "to better understand and tackle the growing drug problems in Europe." It has been suggested the initiative was pressed by a letter addressed to Pompidou by U.S. President Rixhard Nixon in 1969.
The Group was officially launched at the first ministerial meeting held in Paris on 4 November 1971. According to its website:
"Until 1979, the group operated without a formal status supported by the countries holding its presidency: France from 1971 to 1977 and Sweden from 1977 to 1979. The group developed as a sui generis entity throughout the 1970s, and three other countries (Denmark, Ireland and Sweden) joined it during that decade."
After the death of Pompidou in 1974, the group started to informally adopt the name "Pompidou Group."
On 27 March 1980, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe adopted Resolution (80)2, integrating the Pompidou Group into the institutional framework of the Council as an inter-governmental body, after which numerous countries joined it.
As the European integration process and expansion of Schengen Area took over many drug-related areas of competences of European countries, the Pompidou Group reoriented its action towards monitoring. It publishes on a number of topics such as review of seizures carried out at borders, guidelines for custom officers, drug markets, and epidemiology. Since 1989, the Group started working on human rights, health, prevention (including the role of police in drug use prevention), and more recently on harm reduction and HIV/AIDS. Since 2004, the Group now awards every two years a "European Drug Prevention Prize" to drug prevention projects involving young people. More recently, the group has started involving on topics such as addiction to the internet, trade in precursors, on-line drug sales, gender-related issues, prison policies, etc.
In 1999 and 2010, the group signed Memoranda of Understanding with the EU's European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction.