As Guido exclusively reported last week EU states have objected to the smoking ban on the grounds that it interferes with the Windsor Framework. Its passage is now delayed for at least three months 18 February next year…
Slovakia, Romania, and Greece have objected to the legislation. Slovakia’s submission of complaint is punchy:
- “Slovakia is convinced that, through the Bill, the United Kingdom, in relation to Northern Ireland, creates obstacles to the functioning of the EU internal market, restricts the free movement of goods, acts contrary to the objectives of the Tobacco Products Directive, and is incompatible with the principle of proportionality”
- “A generational ban… does not meet the requirements of Article 24(3), which limits national prohibitions to specific categories, not entire generations.”
- The ban would “prevent the sale… of products that are lawfully manufactured and marketed in other EU Member States… a significant departure from the current regulatory framework.”
- “Any policy establishing a generational sales ban would be a trading rule capable of hindering, directly or indirectly, actually or potentially, trade within the EU, as it would reduce the size of the market and would be regarded as a measure having effect equivalent to a quantitative restriction.”
The UK will have to respond comprehensively to each of these points and more before it can satisfy the EU that its directives will not be violated by the generational ban. How’s that for Labour’s “EU reset”…
Read the full complaint below:
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