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The next open meeting is on Tuesday 14th August, 9pm, ECR Chatroom.

The MHRA, an agency within the UK's DoH, has announced its intention to go to law in 2013 to have the e-cigarette legally classified as a drug delivery device, and thus subject to an outright ban unless an individual product has an MA and can be sold as a medicine [see Notes for explanation of initials].

There are four legal arguments that could be used to attempt to show that e-cigarettes are a drug delivery device; but unfortunately for the MHRA, all these arguments have been defeated in court many times, when government or regional bans have been challenged. In fact, at the time of writing, government agencies have been defeated each and every time, in several different countries. The arguments do not stand up to challenge; and the courts are also aware that public health is not being protected by proposed regulations, but instead an attempt is being maded to protect the pharmaceutical industry's income at the expense of public health.

Here are the principal arguments that have been tried, and that have repeatedly failed at law: read more...

www.eccauk.org/index.php/news-and-blog/saying-one-thing-and-doing-another.html - have a read and tell us if this is they you come to expect your local council to conduct itself

The venue has been arranged now e-cig-reviews.com/forum/chat.php Tuesday 22nd 9pm, if you've been trying to register on the ECCA site please drop in and make yourself known so we can get you on the virtual books so to speak. Hope to see you there.

There's a saying "variety is the spice of life", I do agree with some of the comments though. If we have say 20 UK vendors all selling the same stuff, is this really variety. All that would appear to become is a price battle (which in some respect is also good for the consumer).

IMHO looking to the future, I'd like to see vaping expand more within the brick and mortar sector. then the question of how many vendors/retailers are stocking the products becomes redundant, the question will be who will corner the market as the distributors and manufacturers. Big Pharma (They'll want a piece of the pie, and a bland single flavour pie it'll be) The tobacco giants too are getting in on the action. If the vendors that are already here and those that were there in the beginning "the early adopters" don't band together (like ECITA have been trying to affect) then they will be squashed and priced out of the industry, obviously with a few exceptions.

If that happens there will be too few vendors and too little choice.

heck, there's never anything on telly and if there is that's what iplayer and 4OD are for

AGM Details
11.30 am Saturday 22nd October
At: Vapefest - The Moat House, Lichfield Street, Tamworth, Staffs.
An online meeting may also take place simultaneously if possible - see ECCA website for details on the day.


Agenda

1. Apologies for absence from committee officers and committee members.

2. Chairman's Introduction.

3. Treasurer's report.

4. Secretary's report.

5. Discuss the validity of (a) online votes for those attending the AGM online, and (b) proxy votes given to attendees by those who cannot attend. Vote as required.

6. Incorporation of ECCA - report.
Vote: This AGM agrees the incorporation of ECCA as presented in the report.

7. Adopt the proposed constitution.
a. Reading of constitution.
b. Discussion of clauses.
c. Proposed amendments, if any.
d. Vote: This AGM agrees that ECCA will adopt the constitution as presented and amended.

8. Discussion of projects / achievements (events of the past few months, not future projects, which is in AOB).

9. Election of new committee officers:
a. Chair
b. Vice-Chair
c. Treasurer
d. Secretary
e. Agree the proposed Forum Representatives.

Proposals will be received on the day by verbal communication or by email up until 12 noon.

Proposed candidates will be announced by the Chair and the proposer named. A seconder from the committee or the floor is needed. In the event of more than one candidate for any position, a vote will be held.

7. A.O.B.


Notes
This agenda will be subject to change up until 11am Saturday 22nd.

We sincerely hope that a simultaneous online meeting can be held, and if those present at the AGM agree, the votes of online attendees will count. As this is the first attempt at this and we cannot guarantee the local facilities will allow this to take place without fault, we have to prioritise for the physical meeting and - until it actually happens - disregard the possibility of a successful online meeting happening simultaneously and providing a legitimate method of voting.

All ECCA members may vote at the meeting.

Proxy votes: those who cannot attend may 'give' their vote to another who can attend, so that person has two votes. See this thread:
www.eccauk.org/index.php/forum/5-ecca-to...y-votes-for-agm.html

Please be aware that until the AGM is successfully completed we do not actually have a legitimate Association - everything up to that point is simply a trial. After that point, we need to organise a little more tightly, but to do that we need support - and we need volunteers to actually take part. Without volunteers to help, we can't do anything.