EU Commission asked to clarify heat-not-burn status

The EU Commission has been asked to clarify into which ‘category of manufactured tobacco’ heat-not-burn products are to be included.

Nesa Childers, an Irish member of the European Parliament, asked also how existing EU laws would apply to this product.

She had earlier asked whether the Commission was aware of these products and whether it had received any representations about them from the tobacco industry.

Childers’ questions are due to be answered by the Commission in writing.