Thursday 18 April 2013

Ban on e liquid in the EU and UK?

It is looking increasingly likely that e-liquid sales will be banned in the forthcoming EU Tobacco Directive rewrite.

A figure of 4mg/ml nicotine strength has been quoted as the upper limit for EU sales, and because EU law is UK law, this means it will be enforced in the UK. There are two reasons for this:

1. EU law is enforced more strictly in the UK than anywhere else. In many countries, they take a laissez-faire attitude to EU regulations and basically ignore them. This applies the further south you go, as you may well know if you travel widely. However the UK takes the opposite view and regards EU law as written in stone. The same might occasionally be said about Germany, but many would say the UK enforces EU law more strictly than any other country.

2. The MHRA is the pharmaceutical industry's legal arm within government, and will enforce this regulation with an iron fist.

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