VaperCaper
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Wrong.
This is what the new regulations mean.
The biggest change is liquids higher than 20mg are banned.
This means that the highest strength you're likely to be able to buy over the counter will be 18mg and that a black market will spring up to supply the higher strength stuff.
Tanks bigger than 2ml will be banned.
you won't be able to buy any new tanks that hold more than 2ml of e-liquid. You'll still have all your old tanks, and noones taking those away, but once the new regs come in you'll be able to buy a PT2 mini but not a PT2.
It's highly unlikely that owning an oversized tank will become illegal, just selling new ones will be. (we won't know for sure until it's implemented in the actual UK regulations, that haven't even been written yet)
So you can use microcoils and nano dragon coils etc etc you'll be able to buy rebuildable atomisers still, they'll just have a smaller tank. They might well have a tank that's made into 2ml by virtue of some kind of insert that that's easily removable by the end user.
Generation 3 stuff isn't going away, it'll have to shrink a bit.
bottles bigger than 10ml* are banned.
A standard refill bottle will be 10ml. no exceptions. Depending on how this is worded you might end up with 9ml sizes. If you sell 10ml of e-liquid the law requires (weights and measures act) that you provide 10ml or more of e-liquid. Only higher than 10ml would be banned so you'd then need to provide EXACTLY 10ml to avoid breaking the law. If the implementation allows some leeway here then 10ml will stay as the standard.
* amusingly large sizes are exempt. So you'll be able to buy e-liquid by the litre, but 30ml or 50ml or 100 ml would be banned.
That's about it.
Also none of this will become law until it is implemented. The timetable for that is about 2 years away. they haven't even started writing the laws for this yet, much less debated them so it'll be a while before all this becomes law, and the minute it does become law ECITA (and others) will challenge it via the legal system. (It can't be challeneged UNTIL it becomes law, but you can bet the farm it will be.) To date all of the legal advice and all of the previous legal precedent (which to all intents and purposes IS the law) is on our side and Article 18 regulations WILL lose.
So. In about 18months - 2 years or so those three things will become law - and then they'll get challenged legally, and some time later (few months to a year) that law will be thrown out for being illegal.
that's about the size of things as they stand right now.
(there's other stuff in there too but it mostly relates to vendors and not vapers, no advertising, product reporting, not being able to put new products on the market for ~6 months etc)
Oh and don't think for a second that any of that is going to slow down the likes of FastTech. China doesn't give a stuff about our laws. Any of them. (particularly such inconveniences as copyright law, or import taxes) You'll be able to buy anything you dam well please from China irrespective of what EU based vendors will be allowed to sell you.
