ARE YOU READY FOR GDPR?…

  Are you ready for GDPR? Just in case our industry wasn’t still feeling the pain of TPD and more recently GPSD, we are soon to be hit by an updating of the Data Protection regulations.   These new regulations (General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (EU) 2016/679) bring some hefty penalties as well as procedural burdens.If …

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Just realising that EU compliance is more than TPD?

Just realising that EU compliance is more than TPD? The rise of the short-fill-zero-nicotine market forced member state regulators to think fast and whilst GPSD (The General Product Safety Directive) has been in force since the early 2000’s, many hadn’t heard about it applying to the vaping industry until post-TPD. Those brands who manufacture devices …

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Adverse Effects Tracking

ADVERSE EFFECTS TRACKING with 400+ brands registering more than 40,000 products in the UK alone, the money spent on compliance has been staggering. However, the majority of these notifying companies believe that their compliance journey ended with these notifications, when in fact it had only just began. Regulatory compliance for the vaping industry has only …

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Working with BEIS on a RoHS template

WORKING WITH BEIS ON A ROHS TEMPLATE Due to our exclusive compliance agreement with ASPIRE, we are working closely with the BEIS to ensure that ASPIRE’s internal processes and RoHS standards are the best they can be. This is just another example of how the “compliance screw” is tightening across Europe and how manufacturers need …

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Member States begin to review notifications

MEMBER STATES BEGIN TO REVIEW NOTIFICATIONS As expected, Member States are beginning to review the information provided within the notifications made earlier this year. With challenges coming from Denmark, Germany and the UK, on aspects ranging from toxicological studies to incorrect labelling, Arcus Compliance have been involved in correcting errors in product notifications made by …

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