WHO recently released the publication Laws and regulations addressing the acceptability, availability and affordability of alcoholic beverages”, which seeks to support countries in designing legislation and regulations to effectively implement policies that reduce population-level alcohol consumption and related harm, support compliance monitoring and enable enforcement. The publication describes the legal powers, duties and restraints to legislate or regulate alcoholic beverages, provides different options to implement each intervention, and examines legal considerations in the design and implementation of specific interventions that can strengthen a government's legal position.
The WHO Public Health Law and Policies Unit (LAW) organized this webinar to launch the publication. During this event, the new technical product was described and a panel discussion was held focusing on alcohol marketing restrictions, as one of the interventions addressed in the publication.