Table 2

Standardised packaging (SP) political process, tobacco company market share and third-party opposition to SP in Australia, New Zealand, UK, Ireland and France

IssueAustraliaNew ZealandUKIrelandFrance
SP introductionApril 2010April 2012April 2012April 2013April 2014
SP enactment dateNovember 2011September 2016March 2015February 2015December 2015
SP implementation dateDecember 2012March 2018May 2016September 2017January 2017
Tobacco company market share2010: BAT (43.9%),
PMI (35.4%),
Imperial (18%)		2012: BAT (68.3%),
Imperial (20.0%),
PMI (7.1%)		2012: Imperial (41.2%),
JTI (40.3%),
PMI (8.4%),
BAT (6.6%)		2013: JTI (45.8%),
Imperial (19.0%),
BAT (11.9%),
PMI (7.9%)		2013: PMI (39.4%),
Imperial (24.3%),
JTI (17.6%),
BAT (15.5%)
Third-party opposition to SP from business groups, intellectual property and trademark associations, legal firms and think tanks

  • ALEC

  • ABPI

  • Inter-American Association of Intellectual Property

  • Business Civil Liberties

  • Democracy Institute

  • ECAT

  • ICC

  • Institution for Policy Innovation

  • Institute of Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys of Australia

  • INTA

  • MARQUES

  • NAM

  • NFTC

  • Property Rights Alliance

  • USCIB

  • U.S. Chamber of Commerce

  • American Chamber of Commerce in New Zealand Inc.

  • ECAT

  • ECTA

  • European Chamber of Commerce in Korea

  • IEAT

  • Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry

  • INTA

  • Japan Intellectual Property Association

  • MARQUES

  • NAM

  • NFTC

  • Scandinavian Tobacco Group Australia Pty Ltd

  • US-ASEAN Business Council

  • U.S. Chamber of Commerce

  • USCIB

  • Confederation of Netherlands Industry and Employers

  • AIPPI

  • APRAM

  • ASIPI

  • ECTA

  • IEA

  • ICC

  • ICC UK

  • INTA

  • ITMA

  • NFTC

  • Portuguese Association of Branded Products Manufacturers

  • TIPA

  • Trademark Committee of Japan Intellectual Property Association

  • ALEC

  • Association of Patent Trade Mark Attorneys

  • British Chamber of Commerce

  • US Chamber of Commerce

  • ICC

  • IBEC

  • Intellectual Property Committee of the Law Society of Ireland

  • INTA

  • John Player and Sons Ltd

  • P.J. Carroll

  • Property Rights Alliance

  • APRAM

  • Association des Praticiens du Droit des

  • CNAC

  • ECTA

  • Generacion Libre

  • ICC

  • INTA

  • Sciences Po

  • UNIFAB

  • ABPI, Brazilian Intellectual Property Association; AIPPI, The Lithuanian Group of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property; ALEC, American Legislative Exchange Council; APRAM, Association of Trademark and Model Law Practitioners; APTMA, Association of Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys; APRAM, Association of Trade Marks and Designs rights Practitioners; ASEAN, Association of Southeast Asian Nations; ASIPI, Inter-American Association of Intellectual Property; AUSFTA, Australian-US Free Trade Agreement; BAT, British American Tobacco; BIT, bilateral investment treaty; CNAC, National Anti-Counterfeiting Committee; ECAT, Emergency Committee for American Trade; ECTA, European Communities Trade Mark Association; FTA, Free Trade Agreement; GATT, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade; IBEC, Irish Business and Employers Confederation; ICC, International Chamber of Commerce; IEA, Institute of Economic Affairs; IEAT, Importers and Exporters Association; INTA, International Trademark Association; ITMA, Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys; JTI, Japan Tobacco International; MARQUES, European Association of Trade Mark Owners; NAM, National Association of Manufacturing; NFTC, National Foreign Trade Council; PMI, Philip Morris International; TBT, Technical Barriers to Trade; TIPA, Trade related IPR Protection Association; TRIPS, Trade-Related Investment for Intellectual Property Rights; UNIFAB, Union of Manufacturers; USCIB, United States Council for International Business; WTO, World Trade Organization.