Tag: EU
EU: Towards a tax increase on vaping products
The European Commission was asked by European Finance Ministers to draft an “appropriate legislative proposal” for increasing taxes on e-cigarettes that are currently taxed by ±20%...
Petition: Belgian vapers mobilize against the Royal decree
Earlier, this month, a Royal Decree was published referring to “the manufacturing and the marketing of e-cigarettes”. The text is a transposition of the...
Belgium: Online ecig shops forced to close
The Royal decree that transposes the European Tobacco Products Directive in the Belgian law for e-cigarettes has been published on March 3, 2016. Among...
Fontem Ventures in the race of Ecig emission analysis
Fontem Ventures, a branch of Imperial Tobacco Group PLC, recently renamed Imperial Brands, and the owner of the e-cigarette Blu, announced that it has developed, in partnership with...
Sweden: Women are threatened by the European ecig regulation
Sweden, through the accession treaty to the EU, obtained a derogation for snus that has not been proven to represent a significant risk for health over...
UK: Before the e-cigarette, tobacco companies had no competitor
The decline of tobacco products in the UK is inexorable
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Germany: A court sentences a nicotine e-liquid retailer 90 days before...
The Court of Karlsruhe, the highest Federal Court in Germany, has just approved a decision of the Court of Frankfurt which convicted and fined an e-cigarette retailer €9,000 for...
Canada: Self-regulated E-liquid industry
Vaping has been elected by thousands of smokers worldwide to quit smoking, and the success of the method, according to users, is highly dependent on the quality...
