On 17 February 2005, the European Commission adopted a new Drugs Action Plan for the period 2005-2008. Its aims to significantly reduce the high levels of drug use, drug trafficking and the damage caused to EU societies through drug related crime, health problems and social exclusion.
The Action Plan transposes the general objectives contained in the EU Drugs Strategy (2005-2012) into concrete actions.
These include general policy measures, specific programmes aimed at the prevention of drug use amongst young people, in the workplace and in recreational settings as well as measures for improving access to treatment programmes.
A set of measurable assessment tools and indicators has been introduced for each action in order to enable proper evaluation.
The financial resources for the realisation of the Action Plan will come from a number of sources including the AGIS programme on police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters, the AGRO programme on administrative cooperation in the fields of external borders, visas, asylum and immigration, the Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development as well as Member States’ own budgets.
See EPHA’s related article: "EU Drugs Strategy (2005-2012)"
