One thing, though... "The Directive only covers e-cigarettes which contains nicotine."
So if you
buy an empty atty, it contains no nicotine!
I wouldn't count on it. Here is an extract of a mail I received from Catherine Bearder MEP:
"...Our amendment noted that electronic cigarettes have a major role to play in
reducing tobacco-related deaths although they should meet product safety
standards with restrictions on advertising and marketing. However,
pharmaceutical licensing would increase their cost and reduce their
availability, so I am extremely pleased that we won support for this
amendment.
Following that vote, a compromise has been worked out between the European
Parliament and national governments in the EU Council of Ministers. That
compromise deal would permit the sale of refillable cartridges no larger
than 2 millilitres and allow member states to ban specific types of
cartridges if they could justify that action."
So it seems to me that you can expect a ban on all tanks with a greater capacity than 2ml. i.e. lots of the most effective ones. To be fair to Catherine Bearder, I don't believe that she knew that this 2ml deal was much of an issue; she probably thought that people would simply have to fill up more often. I did tell her about all the larger tanks that people want, but this was only six days ago; I think it had all been pre-vote agreed by then.