Acc to my knowledge the EU parliament has organized in different political groups. Does anyone know which groups might support or be sympathetic to our cause? Maybe one should just ask each group what their stance is?
Acc to my knowledge the EU parliament has organized in different political groups. Does anyone know which groups might support or be sympathetic to our cause? Maybe one should just ask each group what their stance is?
Parliamentary question to the EU Commission concerning e-cigarettes
Answer given by Mr Dalli on behalf of the Commission
In the context of the forthcoming review of the Tobacco Products Directive 2001/37/EC(1), the question of electronic cigarettes marketed as consumer products is currently being analysed in the ongoing impact assessment. A possible extension of the scope of the directive to include these products and regulate their ingredients is among the various options being analysed. The Commission has not, at this stage, taken a final position on the preferred policy option.
When e-cigarettes are classified as medicinal products by Member States, such products are subject to an in-depth assessment of the effect and possible adverse reactions before the marketing authorisation is granted.
Currently, there is limited data available on the effects and side-effects of e-cigarettes. Analyses of electronic cigarettes conducted by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have shown that the vapour produced can contain carcinogens, including nitrosamines, toxic chemicals such as diethylene glycol and other tobacco specific components suspected of being harmful to humans(2). The World Health Organisation (WHO) Study Group on Tobacco Product Regulation has concluded that there is concern that nicotine delivery to the lung might result in strong toxicological, physiological and addictive effects(3).
(1) Directive 2001/37/EC of Parliament and of the Council of 5 June 2001 on the approximation of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States concerning the manufacture, presentation and sale of tobacco products Commission statement, OJ L 194, 18.7.2001.
(2) FDA: Summary of Results: Laboratory Analysis of Electronic Cigarettes Conducted By FDA. US: Food and Drug Administration (FDA), July 2009, Summary of Results: Laboratory Analysis of Electronic Cigarettes Conducted By FDA
(3) WHO Study Group on Tobacco Product Regulation, Report on the Scientific Basis of Tobacco Product Regulation: Third Report of a WHO Study Group, 2009.
Is this posted in the CASAA site? I would like to make copies,but pictures from the blog site were imposed over your letter. ThanksIf you have contact information for Mr. Dalli, you might want to send him a link to my article: FDA's partial truths and exaggerations endanger health
According to a working document leaked to the Tobacco Journal International, the European Union's revised Tobacco Products Directive contains a recommended ban on the marketing of all electronic cigarettes. More broadly, the Directive contains a ban on the marketing of all smokeless nicotine-containing products with the one exception of Swedish snus. This means that not only electronic cigarettes, but dissolvable tobacco products, orbs and strips, and all smokeless tobacco other than Swedish snus would also be banned.
According to the leaked draft of the Directive: "Only NCP [nicotine-containing products] that are authorised as medicinal products on the basis of their quality, safety and efficacy, and with a positive benefit/risk balance are allowed on the market. Otherwise, marketing of NCP is banned."
According to a leaked memo highlighted in the tobacco analysis blog, and predicted in the past by this blog, the EU is likely to recommend a ban on electronic cigarettes shortly.
The EU plans to ban the marketing of all nicotine containing products which have not been approved as a medicine. This, of course, includes electronic cigarettes.
A draft of the EU's Tobacco Product Directive was leaked to the German press this week. ...
According to European news sources, the directive could be much worse than anybody feared. Lowlights include: -
- Total ban on all forms of smokeless tobacco across the EU (except Sweden)
- Total ban on e-cigarettes
- Ban on menthol and other flavourings (previously rumoured, as I reported in April)
- Standardised cigarette width, length and colour
- Ban on shopkeepers displaying more than one variety of each brand
- Graphic warnings on packs covering 75 per cent of the surface