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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10938

9 October 2013
PLENARY OF EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT / (ae) health
Parliament decides e-cigarettes are not medicine

Brussels, 08/10/2013 (Agence Europe) - The European Parliament has successfully warded off attempts by cigarette manufacturers once again to delay the revision of the tobacco products directive with its adoption, by 560 votes to 92, with 32 abstentions, of the report by Linda McAvan (S&D, UK) in plenary session in Strasbourg. At the same time, it gave the go-ahead for negotiations with the Council of Ministers and the European Commission to begin this autumn, granting McAvan a negotiating...

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