2012 GLOBAL PROGRESS REPORT

This global progress report for 2012 is the fifth in the series. It has been prepared in

accordance with the decisions taken by the Conference of the Parties (COP) at its first

session (FCTC/COP1(14)), establishing reporting arrangements under the WHO Framework

Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC), and at its fourth session (FCTC/COP4(16)),

that harmonized the reporting cycle under the Convention with the regular sessions of

the COP; furthermore, decision FCTC/COP4(16) requested the Convention Secretariat

to submit global progress reports on implementation of the WHO FCTC based on the

reports submitted by the Parties in the respective reporting cycle for the consideration of

the COP at each of its regular sessions.