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Belgium: British American Tobacco (BAT) is to take a challenge to Belgium’s top administrative court, the Council of State, against the royal decree banning nicotine- and cannabinoid-containing pouches, press reports. BAT will argue that health minister Frank Vandenbroucke did not wait for an opinion from the Superior Health Council and did not take into account recent scientific research on the subject before announcing the ban, which is due to come into effect on 1st October.
18th May 2023
Belgium: The Federal Public Service for Health, Food Chain Safety and the Environment has updated its positive list of notified herbal products for smoking, which includes hemp flowers and other smokable cannabinoid products. Products not on the list may not be placed on the Belgian market without going through the notification process.
26th April 2023
Belgium: The Federal Public Service for Health, Food Chain Safety and the Environment has updated its positive list of notified herbal products for smoking, which includes hemp flowers and other smokable cannabinoid products. Products not on the list may not be placed on the Belgian market without going through the notification process.
29th March 2023
Belgium: Health minister Frank Vandenbroucke has banned the sale of cannabinoid-containing pouches, along with nicotine pouches, through a royal decree which will come into force on 1st July (or 1st October for retailers). Vandenbroucke announced in January his intention to ban the pouches after the Belgian government notified a proposal to that effect to the TRIS database in June 2022. That proposal received negative opinions from Croatia, Hungary and Sweden, while the European Commission offered no comment.
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