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Jump to full article: Bloomberg News, 2007-10-23
Author: Matthew Newman
Intro: European Union regulators asked an EU court to fine Finland 2 million euros ($2.9 million) for allowing the sale of oral tobacco in defiance of a ban on the product.
The European Commission, which enforces EU law in the 27- nation bloc, said Finland has flouted a decision by the EU's highest court to force a local government to comply with anti-oral tobacco legislation. A local law currently would allow ships registered on the Aland Islands, an autonomous Swedish-speaking archipelago in the Baltic Sea, to sell oral tobacco known as snus once they are outside Finnish territorial waters.
``The commission has no tolerance for allowing the placing on the market of that product,'' European Health Commissioner Markos Kyprianou said in a statement today.
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