EU Committee recommends removal of e-cigs from the 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):

www.eccauk.org/index.php/news-and-blog/eu-juri-committee-recommends-removal-of-ecigs-from-the-tpd.html

And the committe report here (PDF)
www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-%2f%2fEP%2f%2fNONSGML%2bCOMPARL%2bPE-510.591%2b01%2bDOC%2bPDF%2bV0%2f%2fEN



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

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




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[Roscopecotrain]

Amazing news. Thanks gluggler.

Sent from my Galaxy Note 2

[womble]

After watching Dave the other night on VTTV, he was saying that this could just be voted out like that. <snaps fingers> so although it's a good thing for us, it may not mean alot.

[moonraker]

It just makes sense, im in my 10th month not smoking & I feel great.
E cigs are the only way I stopped & I tried everything to stop before. My doctor is happy , my nurse is happy .
Could it just be the cash they are going to loose ?

[jud]

its good news and a little battle won,but we must keep going

[kruegerbait]

Great news, thanks for sharing gluggler.

[kirrielad]

Good news, lets just hope that ENVI listen and take note of JURI's advise. Surely they have to? Think ill still keep stocking up on supplies just in case....

[Bluefish]

Now we just have to wait to see if they follow the recommendation.

[gj]

JURI draft ammendment as not yet been put to the vote,
If it is approved Linda McAvan may still ignore it.
We've still got to keep putting the pressure on,
We haven't won the battle yet, but it's looking a little better.