Transfer costs for electronic cigarette product notification to MEPs

Rejected 20 signatures

What the petition asks

The EU's revised Tobacco Products Directive takes effect in May 2016. Under these rules every new e-cigarette product will need to go through a costly and pointless notification process, then wait in legislative limbo for six months before it can be put on the market. MEPs should pay for this.

Due to the pace of innovation in e-cigarettes a six-month-old product is already obsolete. This will cause great pain to UK small businesses, as many customers will buy direct from overseas manufacturers instead. There is also a financial cost for notification, of £220 per product. As MEPs voted for this notification regime without giving any justification for it the cost of product notification should be levied on past and present MEPs who voted in favour of the TPD, and not on businesses.

Why it was rejected

It asked for something that is not the responsibility of the UK Government or Parliament.

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http://www.europarl.europa.eu/atyourservice/en/20150201PVL00037/Petitions

Timeline

8 Jan 2016	Petition opened for signatures
12 Jan 2016	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 20

Status Rejected

Rejected 12 Jan 2016

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