the e- cigarette as a drug can not be sold without authorization

A manufacturer of e- cigarettes will enforce the placement of the controversial product as a luxury food court. He complains before the Higher Administrative Court in Münster against the NRW Ministry of Health. The Ministry rated as the federal government , the e- cigarette as a drug can not be sold without authorization .

The manufacturer has achieved success in the process according to its own opinion . The court had " challenged " in a legal notice that the NRW Ministry evaluated the nicotine-containing e- cigarette as a drug , he said. The company is the ECOREAL GmbH & Co. KG, Cologne. Their product range " Snoke " was affected by the warning of the Ministry of Health.

"From a victory still can not talk "

A spokesman for the OVG presented on Wednesday clear: " There is no decision had been made This is only a legal notice as it also occurs in other processes. . "


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The court dismissed a substantive opinion in the ongoing proceedings . The " direction " of what the company had published in its press release , agree . " This goes in the reporting but through each other as if the company had already won. Thereof can be no question ," said the spokesman.

A decision in the urgent procedure will announce in the coming weeks, the OVG .