2016 GLOBAL PROGRESS REPORT

Overview

The 2016 global progress report is the seventh 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)), harmonizing the reporting cycle under the Convention with the regular sessions of the COP; in the same decision, the COP also requested the Convention Secretariat to submit global progress reports on implementation of the WHO FCTC for the consideration of the COP at each of its regular sessions, based on the reports submitted by the Parties in the respective reporting cycle