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A private business owner in Budapest found himself in hot water when he was heavily fined for selling pharmaceutical products without a license. The National Tax and Customs Authority confiscated electronic cigarette cartridges from the small business owner claiming that they fell under pharmaceutical regulation within Hungarian law. This was last year.

But now, Budapest courts have ruled that electronic cigarette cartridges are not pharmaceuticals and that the business owner is due a refund of the fines he incurred and the return of his confiscated product. The court ruled that businesses could sell e-cig cartridges without license from the National Pharmaceuticals Institute there.

Miklós Szócska, the State Secretary for Healthcare, was quick to say that he believes the ruling applies only to this individual case and does not set a precedent. Clearly he hopes more can be done against electronic cigarettes and the businesses that sell them.

There’s not much more information available on the ruling, but it is one of many promising developments world wide where electronic cigarettes are concerned. When pushed into the courts anywhere in the world, government groups seem hard pressed to prove that electronic cigarettes and their components qualify as anything other than technology products. Without introducing new bills and ordinances to change the definition of pharmaceutical or tobacco products, e-cigs don’t seem to fall easily within the reach of the groups that regulate them.

Even when these changes in definition happen, it’s hard to believe that the exact same frameworks will be easily applied to the products. Many regulatory groups will likely have to overhaul their procedures or create new and separate regulatory architectures — which indicates all the more the need for a new approach to electronic cigarettes.