Traduction de «Tabac de la Havane » (Français → Anglais) :

The European Parliament should reiterate our call for the immediate and unconditional release of prisoners of conscience in Cuba – 55 according to Amnesty International, 200 according to Cuba’s Human Rights Commission – and we should express particular concern today for the recent detention and beating of Darsi Ferrer, director of a health and human rights centre in Havana.

The European Union suspended diplomatic sanctions against the Havana regime a few months ago, so that consideration could be given to the future shape of relations between Havana and Brussels.

The Commission has never financed the participation of European artists or any other kind of activity in the Havana Biennal, nor was such a financing foreseen for this year.

In almost all countries, including the Member States, the media and particularly publications covering the art world, have devoted considerable space to the recent Havana Biennial, one of the most important and representative show cases for the Latin American and indeed world-wide Havant- garde.

(14) Tobacco growing is of historical importance on the islands. Economically speaking, tobacco preparation continues to be one of the chief industrial activities in the region. In social terms, tobacco cultivation is very labour intensive and carried out by small farms. Since the crop is not sufficiently profitable it is in danger of dying out. Tobacco is currently cultivated only on a small area on the island of La Palma, where it is used for the artisanal manufacture of cigars. Spain should therefore be authorised to continue to grant aid in addition to the Community aid so that this traditional crop can be maintained with a view to supporting the artisan ...[+++]al activity associated with it. In addition, to maintain the manufacture of tobacco products, imports into the Canary Islands of raw and semi-manufactured tobacco should continue to be exempt from customs duty, up to an annual limit of 20000 tonnes of stripped raw tobacco equivalent.

Tobacco products for oral use and smokeless tobacco products: there are separate provisions for these two categories of products, i.e. the following warning: This tobacco product can damage your health and is addictive.