Evaluation of the implementation of the EU Drugs Strategy 2013-2020 and of the EU Action Plan on Drugs 2013-2016: a continuous need for an EU Action Plan on Drugs 2017-2020
The EU's Drugs Strategy 2013-2020 and its first Action Plan on Drugs 2013-2016 set out a political framework and priorities for the EU’s drugs policy. The Strategy provides a single, evidence-based framework for tackling drugs inside and outside the EU, and is based on a five pillar structure consisting of:
two main policy areas:
- the reduction of the drug demand and
- the reduction of drug supply;
and three cross-cutting themes:
- coordination,
- international cooperation and
- research, information, monitoring and evaluation.
The Strategy requires the Commission to "initiate an external midterm assessment of the Strategy by 2016, in view of preparing a second Action Plan for the period 2017-2020". The European Agenda on Security provides for the Commission to assess progress in implementing the 2013-2016 Action Plan and decide on that basis whether to propose a new Action Plan for 2017-2020.
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