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The UK has left the EU. From 1 January 2021 the UK will automatically drop out of the EU’s main trading arrangements and new rules will apply also to vaping businesses. […]
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A legislative process is currently ongoing in Germany to adapt tobacco legislation, which provides that nicotine-free e-cigarettes and liquids will be covered by German tobacco law from January 1, 2021 and will be subject to essentially the same legal provisions as products containing nicotine. […]
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In Lithuania, flavor bans and zero regulations could be operational by the end of 2021. […]
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In the end of 2019, the Danish Government proposed to ban flavors other than menthol and tobacco in e-liquids, as a part of a national plan against young people’s smoking. Few days ago the EU Commission issued a statement against parts of the package because it contravenes the TPD and the flavor ban seemed to be postponed indefinitely. Now it’s back, and it could be operative from April 2021. […]
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At the beginning of August, New Zealand Parliament has approved The Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Amendment Act 2020, that will come into effect from 11th November 2020. […]
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On August 20-22, the IECIE Electronic Cigarette Exhibition was successfully held in Shenzhen, China: TRUSTiCERT took part to the virtual edition of the event! […]
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Canada has a federal political structure, meaning that government decisions are divided between the federal government and the ten provinces and three territories. The same applies to vaping regulation: each province/territory can have its own requirements and some of them have already planned to apply significant restrictions, such as the ban on the use of flavorings or the limit of nicotine concentration at 20 mg/ml. […]
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Paul Blokhuis, Secretary of State for Health, Welfare and Sport since 2017 of the Dutch government, is a strong supporter of policies in favor of a healthy lifestyle. A letter written by the politician to the government dates back to a few days ago in which important innovations for the vaping sector are anticipated. […]
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In the last months, Estonia has undertaken a process to try to control cross-border trade and the smuggling market of vaping products, re-admitting the use of menthol flavor and with the proposal to suspend excise duties on liquids with and without nicotine for two years. […]
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Flavors play a significant role in e-liquids, and they are loved by vapers as much as they are opposed by regulatory authorities. Let’s see a quick overview. […]