Britain’s MPs have voted in favour of the introduction of plain standardised cigarette packaging from May 2016. Once implemented, England will be the third country to introduce such a law after Australia and Ireland. While this ...
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Anti smoking groups in New Zealand are lobbying with the government to speed up the procedure for passing plain tobacco packaging legislation. Last week, Ireland successfully passed the plain tobacco packaging legislation, becoming the ...
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Ireland has passed a new law introducing plain tobacco packaging, becoming the first country in the EU, under which all forms of branding, including logos and colours for cigarette packs will be prohibited. The new law, which prompts the ...
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Cigarette giant Japan Tobacco International (JTI) has threatened to take legal action against the Irish government if it doesn't stop work over plain packaging legislation for cigarettes. JTI Ireland, one of the biggest producers of ...
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A recent research has revealed that plain tobacco packaging has the potential to reduce the likelihood of smokers seeking to obtain cigarettes by almost 10% compared to branded packs. The Universities of Exeter and Bristol released the ...
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Parkside Flexibles has secured accreditation for its Park-2-Nature multi-layer laminates for industrial and home composting. Parkside Flexibles is a speciality packaging manufacturer specialising in printing, lamination, laser, thermal ...
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A number of tobacco firms (including Philip Morris, British American Tobacco (BAT) and Imperial Tobacco) formed a coalition to oppose the new EU packaging rules, and the UK’s High Court has referred the case to the EU’s Court of ...
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Amcor Flexibles Asia Pacific is to build a multi-million dollar flexible packaging plant in the Philippines. The new plant will manufacture high performance packaging for a leading multinational consumer brand. Managing director, Ken ...
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In March this year, Indonesia won the right to seek a ruling by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) on Australia's tobacco plain-packaging laws. The WTO's disputes settlement body agreed to set up an independent panel of trade and legal ...
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Cuba, Indonesia, Honduras, Dominican Republic and Ukraine have contested the standardised packaging laws, calling them an illegal restriction on trade, but the panel of judges said there won’t be a WTO ruling until at the first half ...
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Packaging solution providers Amcor has launched a new range of coloured closures for wine bottles that will be made available in the next two weeks. The new range of closures will be available in 24 different colours for its Stelvin ...
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Amcor Tobacco Packaging announced plans to close its operations in Neumunster, Germany, and build a new tobacco packaging plant in Indonesia. Amcor is winding up its Neumunster operations owing to the overcapacity in gravure printing ...
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South Africa is set to introduce plain packaging for cigarettes by 2015, according to Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi. Although investigation has been continuing on the ban of Australia's tobacco branding by World Trade Organisation ...
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"Ireland will be the first country in the European Union to introduce such legislation and the third country worldwide. Australia introduced plain packaging legislation in November 2011 and the New Zealand Bill had its first reading in ...
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According to a report in the Daily Telegraph, Cuba claimed that the law would be "anti-capitalist" and would threaten free trade. The Communist country added that plain packaging would lead to an increase in counterfeit cigarettes, leading ...
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