Here in Belgium, e-liquids containing nicotine are not allowed. Or are they?
An area tobacconist in my town had decided a few months ago to get into the e-cig business, and sell nic juices - I used to get my juices there. And then one day, 5-0 stormed his shop, seized all his stock, and he got a huge-ass fine. At the time, I thought "hmm, surprise surprise..."
Well, the biggest surprise was yet to come: our good tobacconist has challenged the seizure at the European Court of Justice, on the grounds that the Belgian zero-nic rules haven't been voted in parliament yet, that the Belgian authorities are jumping the gun, and until the rules are voted, the 20 mg limit in the EU directive applies to Belgium by default.
And he's won! He's gotten his stock back, and he's happily selling his nic juices again in his shop. Good man
Our local vaping community is abuzz with the news. That's bound to set an interesting precedent: other shops may start to realize they can in fact sell nic juices legally in Belgium, instead of blindly doing like everybody else and selling only zero-nic juices while telling customers hush-hush where to get the real deal. This may well revive the fledgling Belgian vaping market. But it might also dry up the lucrative business of B&Ms selling nic juices in neighboring countries, right at the border.
It'll be interesting to see how this turns out...
An area tobacconist in my town had decided a few months ago to get into the e-cig business, and sell nic juices - I used to get my juices there. And then one day, 5-0 stormed his shop, seized all his stock, and he got a huge-ass fine. At the time, I thought "hmm, surprise surprise..."
Well, the biggest surprise was yet to come: our good tobacconist has challenged the seizure at the European Court of Justice, on the grounds that the Belgian zero-nic rules haven't been voted in parliament yet, that the Belgian authorities are jumping the gun, and until the rules are voted, the 20 mg limit in the EU directive applies to Belgium by default.
And he's won! He's gotten his stock back, and he's happily selling his nic juices again in his shop. Good man
Our local vaping community is abuzz with the news. That's bound to set an interesting precedent: other shops may start to realize they can in fact sell nic juices legally in Belgium, instead of blindly doing like everybody else and selling only zero-nic juices while telling customers hush-hush where to get the real deal. This may well revive the fledgling Belgian vaping market. But it might also dry up the lucrative business of B&Ms selling nic juices in neighboring countries, right at the border.
It'll be interesting to see how this turns out...
