Nordic Alcohol and Drug Policy Network
NordAN
NordAN was established in September 2000 as a network of non-governmental, voluntary organisations who all worked to reduce the consumption of alcohol and other drugs and who supported a restrictive alcohol and drug policy and who did not receive contributions from the commercial alcohol industry.
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Lobbying Activity
Response to A strategic vision for sport in Europe: reinforcing the European sport model
6 Dec 2025
Sport is widely promoted as a tool for health and social inclusion, but the environments in which sport takes place are often saturated with marketing for unhealthy products, especially alcohol, which undermines these health goals. The European Sport Model should not only focus on financial sustainability but must also protect public health, particularly by shielding children from harmful marketing. The model needs to be coherent with EU health policies and international commitments, such as Europes Beating Cancer Plan and the WHO European Alcohol Charter, both of which call for reducing exposure to alcohol advertising and protecting childrens rights. The following actions are recommended: define healthy sport environments that exclude alcohol, tobacco, and gambling marketing from youth and grassroots sports; support clubs in moving away from unhealthy sponsorships; and develop compliance measures to monitor youth exposure to harmful marketing. Sport should be reclaimed as a safe and healthy environment for all, especially children, free from harmful commercial influences. Please find our full contribution in an attached document.
Read full responseResponse to Revision of Food Information to Consumers for what concerns labelling rules on alcoholic beverages
21 Jul 2021
As a network Nordic Alcohol and Drug Policy Network (NordAN) advocates the prevention and reducing of alcohol- and drug related harm through effective evidence based alcohol- and drug policy in the Nordic and Baltic countries and in the entire Northern dimension region of Europe. NordAN is active in all of the Nordic And Baltic countries and has currently 75 member organisations in these countries.
In view of future consultation activities on alcohol labelling, NordAN is pleased to provide input and feedback on Inception Impact Assessment of the Proposal for the revision of Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 on the provision of food information to consumers and we look forward to future engagements.
NordAN fully agrees and supports Eurocare´s response to the EC Alcohol Labelling Inception Impact Assessment.
NordAN is in favour of Option 2: Revising the rules for all alcoholic beverages, revoking the exemption and requiring all indications on-label.
NordAN strongly opposes Option 0 as well as option 1.
We attach here the Nordic and Baltic Charter on alcohol and cancer, which was adopted by NordAN network in January 2021 and which raises the issue of low awareness of alcohol and cancer link among our citizens. According to available national surveys and studies, most of our citizens are not aware that alcohol causes cancer. Evidence shows that only 20-40% of people are aware of that link. A recent (2020) study by the Danish Cancer Society found that “unprompted, 22.2% of respondents were aware of the link between alcohol and cancer. When prompted about specific cancer types, only 9.6% were aware of the link between alcohol and breast cancer.”
Again, we agree with Eurocare that there are several reasons why health warnings as well as the list of ingredients and nutrition declaration should be mandatory on the label of all alcoholic beverages without exemptions
Not only are people not always well informed, but some are also actually misinformed. There is evidence that the alcohol industry sometimes misrepresents or downplays evidence about the alcohol-related risk of cancer. In our view, this situation needs targeted and precise action from governments, state agencies, cancer societies and institutes and the broader civil society. The fact that many people are not aware of the link between alcohol and cancer poses a significant problem. Introducing measures like labelling, including health warnings, is justified by the people's right to know, which is a clear justification for the European Union and the States.
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