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Monthly Archives: December 2010
ECITA submits response to EU Public Consultation on the Tobacco Products Directive
16th December 2010: ECITA Ltd Response to the Possible Revision of the Tobacco Products Directive 2001/37/EC Public Consultation Document DG SANCO 2010 16th December 2010 To whom it may concern We are writing on behalf of the Electronic Cigarette Industry … Continue reading
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US Court of Appeals Rules Against FDA
8th December 2010: So the FDA has failed again to convince the US Judiciary that electronic cigarettes are medicines. The US Court of Appeals upheld Judge Leon’s original ruling, in the District Court, that the FDA does not have the … Continue reading
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ECITA calls for the MHRA to acknowledge defeat in light of the US Court of Appeals Ruling against the FDA
8th December 2010: We have sent the following email to the MHRA this morning: Dear MHRA, In light of the ruling of the US Court of Appeals in the case of NJOY –vs- the FDA, which held that the FDA … Continue reading
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ECITA Attempts to Set the Record Straight with The Independent Online
7th December 2010: The Independent Online today published an article entitled More bad news for ecigarettes ECITA has submitted the following response: Dear Sir, In your online publication this morning, in the ‘Life & Style/Health & Families’ section, you published … Continue reading
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Petition Progress Part 7
6th December 2010: OK, so anyone who’s actually following the petition’s ‘real-time’ progress will know that we have now passed our 3,000th signature, and although it has slowed down considerably, it is still steadily rising. Significant thanks to Piero for … Continue reading
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ECITA makes further attempt to get closure from MHRA
29th November 2010: It’s been a long time since MLX364 reared its ugly head now, and frankly, we’re all a bit sick and tired of it. The MHRA is demonstrably unable to pursue its preferred option, so ECITA is calling … Continue reading
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European Commission Taxation and Customs Union Considers the Electronic Cigarette This Week
29th November 2010: On 15th November 2010, the EUROPEAN COMMISSION DIRECTORATE-GENERAL TAXATION AND CUSTOMS UNION Office of International Affairs and Tariff matters, subsection: HS Convention, combined nomenclature, tariff classification, published its Report of the 432nd meeting of the Committee (Mechanical/Miscellaneous … Continue reading
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Petition Progress Part 6
23rd November 2010: We’ll catch up with ourselves soon, but there’s still a lot more fun to be had with the historical posts yet! A bumper harvest today – nearly 200 more votes! There’s only one word for that: Awesome! … Continue reading
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Petition Progress part 5
19th November 2010: Another good day at the signatureface – 752 signatures and counting! ;D And once again along the way we’ve passed another assortment of petitions – some worthy, some desparate, some just bizarre. But I think the general … Continue reading
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ECITA representatives enlist the help of an MEP.
19th November 2010: Representatives from ECITA today met with a Conservative MEP. We explained a little about the political history surrounding our industry, and its exponential growth with the concomitant benefits to health as well as the economy. She is … Continue reading
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