{"id":8851,"date":"2020-10-16T11:27:50","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T09:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vaping.trusticert.com\/?p=8851"},"modified":"2020-10-16T11:27:50","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T09:27:50","slug":"vaping-flavors-lithuania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-vaping.trusticert.com\/en\/vaping-flavors-lithuania\/","title":{"rendered":"Is a critical moment for vaping and flavors coming in Lithuania too?"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">min<\/span><\/span><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>In Lithuania, flavor bans and zero regulations could be operational by the end of 2021.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Similarly to what happens in the other Baltic Republics and in other countries of the world, with <a href=\"https:\/\/staging-vaping.trusticert.com\/en\/vaping-flavors-regulations\/\">flavor ban<\/a> in vaping products, a possible tightening is on the horizon in Lithuania: the Parliament is in fact discussing changes to the tobacco law that would prohibit the use of flavors other than tobacco and would also place liquids without nicotine under TPD.<\/p>\n<p>A first <a href=\"https:\/\/e-seimas.lrs.lt\/portal\/legalAct\/lt\/TAK\/c9b8a2f0950411eaa51db668f0092944?jfwid=-mhqn1chqz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">proposal<\/a> was made in mid-May to ban, starting from 1 November 2021, the placing on the market of electronic cigarettes with liquids containing nicotine with \u201cflavors other than the smell and \/ or taste of tobacco\u201d. The proposed amendments would aim to make e-cigarettes less in demand, especially among minors, for whom flavored products could be particularly attractive.<\/p>\n<p>In September, it is <a href=\"https:\/\/e-seimas.lrs.lt\/portal\/legalAct\/lt\/TAK\/c0c30780f75111eab72ddb4a109da1b5?jfwid=-mhqn1chqz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">proposed<\/a> to extend this ban to liquids without nicotine; this proposal is justified by the fear that consumers may mix neutral or tobacco-flavored nicotine liquids with flavored nicotine-free bases.<\/p>\n<p>The competent authority has confirmed to us that a draft of the &#8216;Law on tobacco, tobacco products and related products&#8217; has been submitted to the European Commission with the proposal to apply the same regulation as for products with nicotine to products without nicotine.<\/p>\n<p>Details are not yet available: stay with us to be updated on all developments!<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">min<\/span><\/span>In Lithuania, flavor bans and zero regulations could be operational by the end of 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8841,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,25,123],"tags":[46,156,152],"class_list":["post-8851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-authorities","category-regulations-en","category-world","tag-compliance","tag-flavor","tag-products"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-vaping.trusticert.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-vaping.trusticert.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-vaping.trusticert.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-vaping.trusticert.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-vaping.trusticert.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8851"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/staging-vaping.trusticert.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8853,"href":"https:\/\/staging-vaping.trusticert.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8851\/revisions\/8853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-vaping.trusticert.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-vaping.trusticert.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-vaping.trusticert.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-vaping.trusticert.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}