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Yep and its called the Tory Party.

Hello and welcome Paul,
I dont own a vamo but have heard they are very good pvs, and your right we are a friendly bunch,
the best forum by far, and if you do take up mixing your own you will save money.

Hi and welcome Levanti.

The reply that Storm got seems a whole lot better than the ones I got, seems a positive response.

Yep piper, very nice I agree,

I received this today,


Many thanks for getting in touch.

I have been in contact with our group advisors regarding the Tobacco
Products Directive, specifically the sections relating to electronic
cigarettes, and have been informed that this is the start of what will
be quite a substantial process. The proposal has only recently been
published which means that the European Parliament has yet to appoint
the Rapporteurs for each of the committees involved or on a timescale.
The committee which will be responsible for this file will be the
Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee which,
unfortunately, Alyn is not a member of. This committee will go through
the proposal line by line, submitting specific amendments until they
reach a position where the text is agreed upon by the majority of MEPs
in that committee. Certain other committees in Parliament will be
asked for their opinion on the text and, once this is agreed upon, the
text will then be put to the full Parliament at a plenary session and,
if passed, this becomes the position of the European Parliament. This
then goes to the Council and, depending on whether they agree with the
Parliament's position or not, the text could be amended further and
sent back to Parliament again. As the European Institutions must
compromise on certain aspects of legislation, this means that the
final text is rarely the same as the proposed text.

As a result of this there is very little that
I or any other MEP can do to influence this directive at this stage. We
have
received a number of emails from constituents on this matter and will
bear the concerns in mind.

One of the main concerns that has been raised with us by constituents
is that the Commission is proposing to ban electronic cigarettes under
the new Directive. This is certainly not the case. Instead, the
proposal states:

"Extension of the scope of the Directive : Nicotine Containing
Products (e.g. electronic cigarettes) below a certain nicotine
threshold are allowed on the market, but must feature health warnings;
above this threshold such products are only allowed if authorised as
medicinal products, like nicotine replacement therapies. Herbal
cigarettes will have to carry health warnings" (Page 9 of proposal and
article 18 on page 39)

However, as I have said, this may be subject to amendments by the
committees involved and so may change.

I thank you for your interest.

Yours aye

Alyn Smith MEP