The Greek Ministry of Health recently published a statement on its website that electronic cigarettes without nicotine are not legal in the country “in accordance with national and European legislation”.
However, the official communication only refers to electronic cigarettes with nicotine and novel tobacco products as “authorised to be marketed on the Greek market”.
The interpretation of the Greek health authorities is somewhat surprising since non-nicotine electronic cigarettes are not regulated by the Greek legislation and therefore it is rare to consider them illegal if there is not a law that specifically regulates these kind of e-liquids.
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