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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9387
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/consumers

EU decision requiring cigarette lighters to be child-resistant takes effect

Brussels, 15/03/2007 (Agence Europe) - All EU member states are now under a binding obligation to ensure that cigarette lighters placed on the EU market have a security device to make them child-resistant. The European decision to ban all non child-resistant lighters - whether manufactured in the EU or imported from third countries - took effect on 11 March.

In a press release, Meglena Kuneva, European Consumer Policy Commissioner, welcomes the entry into force of these “important...

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