Combating illicit drug trafficking: criminal acts and penalties, minimum provisions. Framework Decision

The Council continued its examination of the proposal for a Framework Decision on minimum provisions on the constituent elements of criminal acts and penalties in the field of drug trafficking. The Council focused again its examination on the issue of penalties (Article 4 of the proposal) and noted that the compromise text tabled by the Presidency, while broadly welcomed, was not accepted by a small number of delegations.�