Good News - EU Committee recommends removal of e-cigs from TPD

[Matt Gluggles]

The EU's JURI committee (legal affairs) has recommended that the ENVI committee remove e-cigarettes and certain other proposals from the proposed TPD.

This is excellent news for us as it indicates that somebody in the EU has actually looked at the public health issues instead of blindly following the EU / pharmaceutical and cigarette industry agenda to protect cigarette sales at any cost.

The JURI committee's recommendations in brief are:

- Remove e-cigarettes entirely from the TPD for two reasons:
- Less harmful alternatives to smoking are required
- The inclusion of e-cigarettes would not stand up to legal challenge
- Remove certain clauses that would delegate wide-ranging powers to the EU's committees and would remove those powers from the democratic process
- Remove or amend certain plain packaging requirements and similar measures for cigarettes


Well that is very good news for us.

Source here (Rolygate):

http://www.eccauk.org/index.php/new...recommends-removal-of-ecigs-from-the-tpd.html

And the committe report here (PDF)
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides.../NONSGML+COMPARL+PE-510.591+01+DOC+PDF+V0//EN



Bloody Brilliant !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

yes - the letters, emails etc to MEPs have been working after all - keep up the pressure, do not relax now !

 

[Robzki]

Excellent news I have been emailing all meps and have had some interesting replies, mostly positive, some really do need educating though as there have been a lot of strange replies from people who obviously haven't done any research.
Most of them are generic replies but I have just had one interesting one:



Thank you for your e-mail of 28 April 2013.


I can only confirm that I am completely against a ban on electronic
cigarettes.


I am also against the EU to regulate this at all. Questions of this kind
ought to be determined through our national democratic mechanisms.


Yours sincerely

At least some are onboard

 

[SouthernVaper]

excellent news

 

[izzy11]

bloody fantastic!!!!!

 

[Triumph]

Sounds like very promising news, thanks for the update

 

[whipitup]

Yeah, just seen it on Twitter.

 

[whit77]

Good news, seems people are listening to us, but I don't want to come across as a negative a-hole but its only a recommendation

 

[clint]

Fantastical!

 

[whipitup]

Good news, seems people are listening to us, but I don't want to come across as a negative a-hole but its only a recommendation

But they have also warned that it will fail at the first legal challenge, as it has elsewhere.

 

[Tromain]

Good news, seems people are listening to us, but I don't want to come across as a negative a-hole but its only a recommendation

True, but even a recommendation is more then we expected from the powers that be.