EU EU vapers: please join to sign petition NOW!

[Tom09]

I guess, that most of you are well aware that the pending Revision of the EU tobacco Products Directive is likely to determine the future - or the extinction - of e-cigs on the EU Community market. On March 07, Commissioner Dalli is scheduled to meet with stakeholders. As far as I know, the only stakeholder representing e-cigs, and invited to participate in the present consultation, is UK’s trade association ECITA. This trade associationis not only about to defend their members interests. It should certainly meet the interest of every individual EU vaper that e-cigs remain legal on the EU Community market. Please check out the supporting petition, and sign NOW if you might agree.


Original post:

ECITA has launched a petition today to garner support for appropriate and correct regulation of electronic cigarettes as General Sales Products, and NOT as medicinal products or as tobacco products.
You can find the petition here: Welcome to ECITA, the Electronic Cigarette Industry Trade Association
We hope to roll this out across the EuropeanUnion, and then present this petition to the European Commission as part of our submissions to this consultation process.
Please lend your support and sign this petition to protect your freedom to choose vaping!
Manyt hanks,
Katherine
ECITA

Update post:

Apparently,there has been some confusion about this petition. Sorry for not getting in touch sooner about this!
From the outset, the idea was to set up the petition and gain as many signatories as possible in time for whenever the EU decided to look at electronic cigarettes in terms of their regulation. As of today, the petition has 12,233 signatures,which is a tremendous achievement. Mercifully, new signatories are still being added every day.
Well, the moment is coming... SOON! We have been invited to meet with Commissioner Dalli at the European Commission on 7th March in Brussels, when he is having a meeting to discuss the proposed revisions to the Tobacco Products Directive. This will include his consideration of electronic cigarettes in that context, hence our having been invited to attend.
This is it, folks! I shall be able to personally deliver our petition directly to the Commissioner, precisely at the moment when he is looking at how electronic cigarettes should be regulated. (We shall, of course, be offering him our solution to that very issue at the same time, and have high hopes that we shall be successful in keeping ecigs out of tobacco classification for Europe, as well as clear of medicinal classification.)
So now is the time to sign - please! If you agree with the sentiments expressed in the petition, please do get on and sign it. This is one petition which is genuinely going to get to the intended recipient, at precisely the relevant moment. The wheels of government grind VERY slowly, particularly at the level of the EU, but this works in our favour - in so many ways - not least because the petition has had time to gather some serious momentum.
It's not too late! Please sign it, if you want the freedom to choose for yourself!
Many thanks, and happy vaping!
Katherine

This petition is endorsed by ECF, see “Important Notices”, here.


SIGN EU PETITION HERE​

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[Tom09]

Last days have seen a tremendous growth of signatures, mostly generated from the German, Latin and Slavic speaking EU e-cig communities. Please check out UK’s consumers endorsement [/url ]and sign if you might concur with the expressed sentiment that e-cigs should remain legal on the EU Community market.
[url=http://www.petitiononline.com/fr33dom/petition.html]SIGN EU PETITION HERE

 

[Tom09]

The initiator of this petition (Katherine Devlin/ECITA, UK) has posted an update here:

OK, so I was at the Commission yesterday, and I shall blog about the meeting later, but as far as the petition is concerned, we have been given another week!!!
Currently, we have 16,069, but with another week to go, we MUST be able to hit 20,000.
Also, don't forget to add your comments. The Commissioner made it very clear that they will read every submission, so this really is an opportunity for you to put your views directly to them.
Thanks again to everyone for your support. I'll provide more details about the meeting in the blog later, but for now, please keep spreading the word and getting more signatures and comments for the petition.

 

[Tom09]

Katherine Devlin (ECITA) has posted a detailed first hand account on the 7th March stakeholder meeting with the European Commission here.