FEDERATION TOBACCONISTS GREECE
(O.P.K.E.)
Koutarelia 74, 1st Floor, Volos
Tel-FAX 24210-32780 kin.6934832876
www.oebem.gr, email: oebemg@gmail.com
VOLOS 15/04/2011
Ref: 472
TO MINISTER OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL SOLIDARITY Mr. Loverdos Andreas
SOCIAL. GENERAL SECRETARY SOCIAL SOLIDARITY
Mr. Dimopoulos Antonis
ESEE A vice Kavvatha GEORGE
OPINION O.P.K.E.
Dear Minister,
The Federation tobacconists Greece (O.P.K.E.) supports the decisions of both the ESEE and the P.O.E.S.E. amending and replacing Articles 3 and 6 of Law. 3730/2008, ie the free separation of sanitary shop shopping smoking and non-smoking rooms with special signal means and the pass-disciplinary liability for breaches exclusively customers. According to official data of the Panhellenic Federation of Restaurant and Related Occupations industry has 120,000 companies with 400,000 employees. The sector of Peripterouchon tobacconists Greece together with the manufacturing process of the tobacco industry far exceeds the 150,000 thousand families. When our country is located in a large and deep crisis, when one after another company puts padlock when our small and very small business are indebted to the banking system when it assures us that a study of the Institute of Small and Medium Enterprises (IME ) of GSEBEE within the next year threatened to shut 175,000 companies, when 80% of small micro-enterprises are in Tiresias, when every day there is a great weakness payment you need to be remedial modifications Law 3730/2008 in order to have sustainable businesses without unemployed. Our proposal is:
• To undertake the replacement of Articles 3 and 6 of Law. 3730/2008 to give the possibility to define organizational and spatial spaces will prohibit or allow smoking.
We remind you that the above arrangements are already in place in many European countries including Portugal, the Netherlands, which in recent Legislation effective from 1/1/2008.
• Until there is the replacement of Articles 3 and 6 of Law. 3730/2008 needs freeze complete ban for at least the next two years in order not to have an intense wave of unemployed, and 99.5% of businesses are small or medium-sized .
• Our small micro businesses need financial planning with incentives to be no economic growth prospects rather than strictly punitive measures. This is not our national economy needs substantial support to new jobs in order to overcome and respond to the major challenges of deep crisis.
Dear Minister,
We look forward to a fair and definitive solution.
O PRESIDENT: Kogias Konstantinos
The GEN. SECRETARY: Gkouvinas Vasileios