2018 GLOBAL PROGRESS REPORT

Overview

The 2018 Global Progress Report on Implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control is the eighth global tobacco report since 2007. It has been prepared in accordance with decision FCTC/COP1(14) taken by the Conference of the Parties (COP) at its first session, which established reporting arrangements under the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC), and decision FCTC/COP4(16) taken at its fourth session, harmonizing the reporting cycle under the Convention with the regular sessions of the COP. Furthermore, in the latter decision the COP 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.