Article: EU/MOROCCO: RABAT INVITED TO CO-OPERATE IN COMBATING THE DRUGS TRADE.

The Spanish report mentions that Morocco has signed three United Nations drugs conventions, but there are still loopholes in the country's drugs legislation concerning money laundering, checking merchandise and precursors. The country has three bodies dealing with the drugs trade, namely the National Commission on Psychotropic Substances (set up in 1977 as part of the Health Ministry), the North Morocco Development Agency (part funded by the European Union and one of whose tasks is the combating of drug production) and the Co-ordination Unit for the Fight Against Drugs (UCLAD) (set up in 1995 as part of the Interior Ministry but whose duties have yet to be formally ...

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