E-cigarettes advent stopped by MPA – Business Week

E-cigarettes advent stopped by MPA – Business Week

The judgment makes e-cigarettes with nicotine illegal in Sweden, but the MPA is not satisfied – in search of more bans.

A new ruling makes trading with e-cigarettes illegal, reports news agency TT. The verdict came in the middle of July, when the administrative court ruled that e-cigarettes with nicotine may be treated with medications. Then could the MPA issue bans sale of 30 products affected by the judgment. According to Per-Åke Sandvold, head of the agency, has already identified a number of other companies whose products we also want to classify drugs and issue bans for sale.

Despite the judgment, however, may by a simple search easily find companies that sell e-cigarettes to Swedish customers, writes DN. “It feels like it has been quite at liberty to sell until this judgment came. There are quite a few more players now than when we started pushing this,” continues Sandvold. Against MPA stood in judgment a company in Malmö is now not allowed to sell the products. But the MPA would rush to ban even more products. “Although the court’s decision to appeal does not mean that we wait for several years before all bodies have had time to tell her,” said Sandvold.

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The owner of the company in Malmö who lost judgment, Morten Ingelström Paulsen, said that since July has lost about a third of its revenue. Ingelström Paulsen does not seem to be worried about, the inventory can be quickly filled with a plethora of products that have not been banned. “We expect to be back to normal within a week or two.”

In many other countries have e-cigarettes with mokotin been approved as a drug, but in Sweden there are no approved products, writes DN . Sandvold consider this leave the market open for rogue actors. He is worried that the little ones to come to the very products that are directly harmful. Therefore hope is now on the MPA to an e-cigarette is registered in Sweden as drugs that can go through the process of being approved. Several of the giants in the tobacco has been invested in the industry and Sandvold think any of them will release a product that can be approved.

Ingelström Paulsen is considering appealing the judgment, but do not think he would get right in higher instances either. Instead, maybe he will move their operations overseas, beyond the reach of Swedish authorities, writes DN. “One solution is that we do like many others and move operations overseas., I can move my web business to Poland, Germany or England and then it is no problem to sell to Swedes” he says.