SPAIN’S Council of Ministers has backed a brand new invoice to curb underage alcohol consuming which is able to enable police to conduct breath assessments on kids in places together with colleges and faculties.
The laws will now need to be accepted in Congress.
It additionally consists of restrictions on alcohol promoting, gross sales, and public consumption in an effort to scale back consuming amongst children.
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The invoice, proposed by Well being Minister, Monica Garcia, goals to deliver collectively current nationwide and regional legal guidelines.
It is going to ban alcohol consumption for everybody, together with adults, in academic establishments (besides universities), pupil residences that home minors, and public sports activities, leisure, and leisure venues when occasions are designed particularly for younger audiences.
Gross sales restrictions may also be tighter with institutions catering to minors prohibited from promoting alcohol, whereas self-service shops should show drinks in a separate, designated space.
Merchandising machines promoting alcohol will likely be required to implement age verification mechanisms just like these used for tobacco machines.
The regulation may also ban unlicensed road gross sales of alcohol.
It is going to additionally prohibit alcohol commercials inside 150 metres of colleges, healthcare amenities, social service centres, and kids’s leisure areas.
Moreover, hospitality venues will not be allowed to show alcohol commercials on tables or partitions.
In an additional transfer to restrict publicity, the regulation will ban the advertising of merchandise that mimic alcoholic drinks, reminiscent of zero-alcohol spirits, apart from non-alcoholic beer and wine.
Monica Garcia emphasised that no quantity of alcohol is protected for consumption, countering the long-standing perception that average consuming can supply well being advantages.
“We should eradicate the deeply ingrained, unscientific notion that alcohol consumption can have some well being advantages,” she acknowledged.
Garcia additionally highlighted that whereas consultations with trade representatives have taken place, the first focus of the laws is defending minors and adolescents from alcohol publicity.
