In Luxembourg, e-cigarette shops will have to pay 5 000 euros for each new product proposed. A choice that does not pass and may run small businesses.
AN EXCESSIVE NOTIFICATION COST, SHOPS STARTING TO CLOSE!
«Electronic cigarette shops will disappear one after the other»Predicts Véronika Rémier, manager of the shop Troc your cigarette which will close at 1er August. In question, a provision of the new anti-smoking law that provides for taxing vaping products in the same way as tobacco.
«Manufacturers and importers of electronic cigarettes and refill bottles are required to submit a notification to the Directorate of Health regarding any product they intend to place on the market. A fee of 5 euros is due for any notification"Says the Ministry of Health.
A tax "that manufacturers will refuse to pay. They will prefer to emigrate across the border", Explain Mrs Rémier. Neither France nor Germany have yet transposed the EU directive that initiated the measure.
The shopkeeper considers Luxembourg much more severe with vaping than with tobacco and recalls that in the Grand Duchy “the price of the package is much lower than elsewhere". She considers that the e-cigarette "helps people quit smoking". An idea refuted by the Ministry of Health: " Electronic cigarettes pose a potential health risk. Its use can stimulate initiation to smoking among young people».
Source : Lessentiel.lu/
