{"id":20556,"date":"2025-02-07T13:24:20","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T13:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/post\/eu-ombudsman-closes-conflict-of-interest-investigation-into-tobacco-control-ngo-but-broader-questions-remain\/"},"modified":"2025-02-10T12:09:26","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T12:09:26","slug":"le-mediateur-de-lue-cloture-lenquete-sur-les-conflits-dinterets-concernant-une-ong-de-lutte-antitabac-mais-des-questions-subsistent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/fr\/post\/le-mediateur-de-lue-cloture-lenquete-sur-les-conflits-dinterets-concernant-une-ong-de-lutte-antitabac-mais-des-questions-subsistent\/","title":{"rendered":"Le m\u00e9diateur de l&rsquo;UE cl\u00f4ture l&rsquo;enqu\u00eate sur les conflits d&rsquo;int\u00e9r\u00eats concernant une ONG de lutte antitabac, mais des questions subsistent."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"clear-before-content-2\" style=\"margin-top: 20px;margin-bottom: 20px;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\" id=\"clear-883856382\"><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.broughton-group.com\/nicotine?utm_campaign=43296353-Clearing%20the%20Air%20PPC%20Campaign%20-%202026&#038;utm_source=ppc&#038;utm_medium=Paid%20Ads\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"a2t-link\" aria-label=\"728 x 90 (2)\"><img src=\"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/728-x-90-2.png\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/728-x-90-2.png 728w, https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/728-x-90-2-300x37.png 300w, https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/728-x-90-2-370x46.png 370w, https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/728-x-90-2-600x74.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\"  style=\"display: inline-block;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Le M\u00e9diateur europ\u00e9en a clos son enqu\u00eate sur la DG SANTE de la Commission europ\u00e9enne, qui \u00e9tait accus\u00e9e d&rsquo;avoir fait appel \u00e0 un prestataire partial pour aider \u00e0 r\u00e9\u00e9crire la l\u00e9gislation europ\u00e9enne relative aux produits de nicotine plus s\u00fbrs.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">L&rsquo;enqu\u00eate faisait suite \u00e0 une plainte d\u00e9pos\u00e9e par Tobacco Europe \u2013 les lobbyistes des grands groupes du tabac \u2013 qui soutenait que le R\u00e9seau europ\u00e9en de pr\u00e9vention du tabagisme (ENSP) aurait d\u00fb \u00eatre exclu du contrat en vertu des r\u00e8gles de conflit d&rsquo;int\u00e9r\u00eats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">La plainte portait sur le fait que l&rsquo;ENSP avait sign\u00e9 une d\u00e9claration indiquant que son personnel n&rsquo;avait travaill\u00e9 sur aucun projet li\u00e9 au tabac dans les quatre ann\u00e9es pr\u00e9c\u00e9dant l&rsquo;attribution du contrat, alors qu&rsquo;en r\u00e9alit\u00e9 ce n&rsquo;\u00e9tait pas le cas. L&rsquo;argument de la Commission \u2013 selon lequel il s&rsquo;agissait d&rsquo;une erreur de saisie, la d\u00e9claration devant uniquement exclure le personnel ayant travaill\u00e9 pour l&rsquo;industrie du tabac \u2013 a \u00e9t\u00e9 accept\u00e9 par le M\u00e9diateur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Cependant, le M\u00e9diateur n&rsquo;a pas laiss\u00e9 DG SANTE s&rsquo;en tirer sans critique.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00ab Il est regrettable que la Commission n&rsquo;ait pas reconnu l&rsquo;int\u00e9r\u00eat de l&rsquo;ENSP pour la lutte contre le tabagisme dans ses \u00e9changes avec le plaignant et qu&rsquo;elle n&rsquo;ait pas expliqu\u00e9 comment elle avait \u00e9valu\u00e9 cet int\u00e9r\u00eat, compte tenu du r\u00f4le de l&rsquo;ENSP dans le cadre du contrat-cadre \u00bb, a conclu le M\u00e9diateur.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Alors que l&rsquo;attention du Parlement se porte sur le r\u00f4le des ONG financ\u00e9es par l&rsquo;UE dans le lobbying aupr\u00e8s de la Commission europ\u00e9enne, il convient de rappeler que l&rsquo;ENSP a \u00e9galement fait du lobbying aupr\u00e8s des institutions europ\u00e9ennes \u2013 en cherchant notamment \u00e0 imposer des restrictions s\u00e9v\u00e8res sur les produits de nicotine plus s\u00fbrs \u2013 tout en \u00e9tant sous contrat pour aider \u00e0 r\u00e9viser les m\u00eames lois sur lesquelles elle faisait du lobbying.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ce type de lobbying de la part des ONG environnementales a \u00e9t\u00e9 jug\u00e9 \u00ab inappropri\u00e9 \u00bb par le Commissaire au budget de l&rsquo;UE, Piotr Serafin.<\/p>\n<div class=\"clear-after-content\" style=\"margin-top: 20px;margin-bottom: 20px;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\" id=\"clear-690422865\"><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.broughton-group.com\/nicotine?utm_campaign=43296353-Clearing%20the%20Air%20PPC%20Campaign%20-%202026&#038;utm_source=ppc&#038;utm_medium=Paid%20Ads\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"a2t-link\" aria-label=\"728 x 90 (2)\"><img src=\"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/728-x-90-2.png\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/728-x-90-2.png 728w, https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/728-x-90-2-300x37.png 300w, https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/728-x-90-2-370x46.png 370w, https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/728-x-90-2-600x74.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\"  style=\"display: inline-block;\" \/><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Le M\u00e9diateur europ\u00e9en a clos son enqu\u00eate sur la DG SANTE de la Commission europ\u00e9enne, qui \u00e9tait accus\u00e9e d&rsquo;avoir fait appel \u00e0 un prestataire partial pour aider \u00e0 r\u00e9\u00e9crire la l\u00e9gislation europ\u00e9enne relative aux produits de nicotine plus s\u00fbrs. L&rsquo;enqu\u00eate faisait suite&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":990003,"featured_media":20539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[186,381],"slider":[],"class_list":["post-20556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-nicotine","tag-nicotine-fr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/990003"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20556"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20600,"href":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20556\/revisions\/20600"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20556"},{"taxonomy":"slider","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearingtheair.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/slider?post=20556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}