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Titolo: [ENG] Will tobacco sponsorship really stop in 2006?

Source: 
grandprix.com
http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns12426.html
The chances of tobacco sponsorship coming to an end around the world in
2006 are reducing. Originally the intention was for all tobacco
sponsorship in all motorsport to be stopped at the end of 2006. In
October 2000 the FIA adopted a resolution calling for "a world-wide ban
on tobacco advertising and sponsorship in international motor sport from
the end of the 2006 season". This was tailored to coincide with a
European Union ban and various other governments around the world timed
their bans to coincide with the EU move.
Even the major tobacco companies got together to agree not to sponsor
sports after the end of 2006.
But will it all really happen?
The EU torpedoed confused matters, some say fatally, by deciding to bring
forward the date of its ban to the middle of 2005. Once that became clear
the Formula One group became much more active in looking for new venues
outside the EU. FOM has made it clear that it might consider races in
non-tobacco venues but that will cost the organizers much more money.
This however is not so attractive to the teams which already face tight
restrictions in Britain, Germany and France. There is no incentive for
the tobacco-funded teams to accept more non-tobacco races. The Italians
have a suitably lax system under which the teams pay fines to the police
each year at Monza and Imola and the racing goes ahead without problems.
Austria has already been dumped from the calendar and Monaco escapes the
net because it is not a member of the EU. This means that the races in
places like Belgium and Spain are in serious danger in 2006.
There is a certain amount of pressure on the tobacco-funded teams in F1
from those who do not have tobacco money because, they argue, the link
with tobacco drives away other sponsors but with the current balance of
tobacco and non-tobacco teams being 5-5 it is hard to see that a majority
will prevail in the immediate future.
The World Health Organization's anti-tobacco treaty is bubbling away
quietly but it is going to take years before all the necessary
legislation is enacted at national and international level to stop
tobacco advertising and that means that the only real barrier to tobacco
advertising is the tobacco companies' own agreement to limit their
actions.
And who is to say that they will honour that agreement, given that the
governments have been chopping and changing their laws in recent years.
If the self-policing of the industry fails, then the gates are open for
tobacco sponsorship for another five to 10 years and perhaps even longer
if F1 goes to countries which have not signed up to the WHO treaty.
High-placed sources in F1 say that if the European Health Commissioner
David Byrne had not insisted on changing the date of the EU legislation a
global ban would probably have gone through but that his disastrous
manouevre destroyed the deal.
They say that Byrne's monument at the EU will be tobacco advertising on
racing cars for many years to come.
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 manouevre destroyed the deal.
E certo, come no. Una decisione epocale come questa viene cambiata
perché l'Unione Europea (dove, peraltro, hanno sede la quasi totalità
dei team) ha deciso di anticipare di un anno una scadenza già fissata...
Semplicemente l'ennesima tappa della polemica tra UE e FIA a cui i
giornali inglesi fanno con molto piacere da spalla.
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 giornali inglesi fanno con molto piacere da spalla.
Diciamo che si accompagna molto bene a quella sul mandato d'arresto
europeo con tutte le conseguenti polemiche e recriminazioni. Anche in quel
caso i team, per "rimanere" in Europa, vogliono una "liberatoria" rispetto
alle norme vigenti per tutti gli altri...
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 "liberatoria" rispetto alle norme vigenti per tutti gli altri...
Guarda, io spero solo che la UE e i vari governi europei usino il pugno di
ferro e non concedano nessuna deroga, mantenendo in toto le norme sul
mandato d'arresto europeo e vietando le sponsorizzazioni tabagifere in tutti
i paesi. Voglio poi vedere Ecclestone e soci andare a fare il mondiale
spostando il baricentro in Asia, probabilmente sarebbero anche capaci di
organizzare il baraccone in questa maniera, ma vorrei anche poi vedere
quanto gli durerebbe il giochetto
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