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22nd April 2022 - Europe, United Kingdom |
UK: Yesterday, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) issued a final call for evidence linking products to applications on the public list. Businesses have
21st April 2022 - Europe |
EU: The minutes of the 14th March meeting between the European Commission’s Expert Group for Agricultural Markets and the civil dialogue group (CDG) on arable crops concerning the
21st April 2022 - Europe, United Kingdom |
UK: The Home Office has stated in written evidence to a parliamentary inquiry into drug policy that the government is keen to reduce barriers to access
21st April 2022 - Europe, North Macedonia |
North Macedonia: A number of civil society associations have joined forces to demand the cancellation of the cannabis legalisation process, media reports. They
Spain: The director of the European Observatory for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA), Alexis Goosdeel, has told the parliamentary Health Committee there is not
19th April 2022 - Europe, United Kingdom |
UK: Explaining why a Cellular Goods product was left off the list of marketable CBD products despite using a white label product from Pureis, whose
19th April 2022 - Europe, Switzerland |
Switzerland: The Basel-Stadt canton health department has received the green light from the Federal Office of Public Health to start selling recreational cannabis in pharmacies as part of
Albania: Prime minister Edi Rama has announced that the government will legalise and regulate medical cannabis following a national consultation in which 61% of citizens were
Greece: Development and investment minister Adonis Georgiadis has said medicinal cannabis will start to be produced in Greece and sold in Greek pharmacies,
12th April 2022 - Europe, United Kingdom |
UK: Westminster City Council and the Metropolitan Police have seized 23 products containing cannabis from a souvenir shop in London’s Oxford Street, press reports.
12th April 2022 - Europe, Switzerland |
Switzerland: The Federal Office of Public Health has confirmed to CBD-Intel that the previously reported decision banning chemical products that contain CBD will only affect products that
Germany: The Cologne Administrative Court has confirmed the Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (BfArM)’s classification of CBD drops as medicinal products, rather than
Italy: The Ministry of Defence has published a call for tender for the cultivation of medical cannabis by private companies. In Italy, the cultivation
8th April 2022 - Europe, Switzerland |
Switzerland: The Swiss Confederation has published a decision banning chemical products that contain CBD and are marketed under the requirements of the chemical
8th April 2022 - Europe, United Kingdom |
UK: A plastic packaging tax that applies, among other things, to plastic protective film around a box, has entered into effect. A tax rate
Poland: The Supreme Administrative Court has ruled that extracts from hemp flowers and fruiting tops, including CBD, fall under EU food safety rules, media reports.
7th April 2022 - Europe, Switzerland |
Switzerland: Representatives of the right-wing Swiss People’s Party and the Federal Democratic Union have submitted a motion to ban the sale of recreational cannabis products in
Spain: The Spanish Agency for Medicines and Health Products (AEMPS) has reportedly notified the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) of an estimated requirement for
Spain: The General Council of Pharmaceutical Associations has asked Parliament to launch a pilot test on medical cannabis, press reports. The organisation wants prescribed
Germany: Five men have been acquitted of drug trafficking charges in Berlin's Regional Court after selling CBD flowers as smoking products with less than
Belgium: The Federal Public Health Service has updated its positive list of already notified herbal products for smoking, which includes hemp flowers and other
Slovakia: Zuzana Čaputová, the president of Slovakia, has signed the amendment to the Criminal Code, which seeks, among other things, to reduce penalties
31st March 2022 - Europe |
EU: The European Commission has launched an initiative to evaluate the progress made under Directive 2012/19/EU on waste electrical and electronic equipment, which applies to CBD vapes and devices
31st March 2022 - Europe, United Kingdom |
UK: The Food Standards Agency has published a public list of CBD products that will be allowed to remain on sale in the
31st March 2022 - Europe, Netherlands |
Netherlands: The closed coffeeshop chain experiment has been postponed until the second quarter of 2023, media reports. The minister of public health and
30th March 2022 - Europe |
EU: An initiative on chemicals strategy for sustainability has been launched that could lead to a revision of the EU Cosmetic Products Regulation. A
30th March 2022 - Europe |
EU: A summary report of the 28th February meeting of the Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed (SCOPAFF) in which the permitted THC levels for hemp seed foodstuffs were
Germany: Federal drug commissioner Burkhard Blienert has expressed support for health warnings on cannabis packaging, once recreational cannabis is legalised. Speaking in a
25th March 2022 - Europe |
EU: The directorate general (DG) for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs told CBD-Intel that the European Commission is discussing with the members
Spain: The government’s delegate for the National Plan on Drugs, Joan Ramón Villalbí, has expressed concern over a possible increase in the use
Spain: The single-issue Luz Verde (Green Light) party, which advocates legalisation of both medical and recreational cannabis, can take part in the next
22nd March 2022 - Europe, United Kingdom |
UK: The Centre for Medicinal Cannabis, the Association for the Cannabinoid Industry and First November Group have launched a review of regulation and public policy
Slovakia: On Wednesday, 16th March, the amendment to the Criminal Code that seeks, among other things, to reduce penalties for cannabis use, was
Greece: Joint Ministerial Decision 27462/2022 entered into force two days ago on 15th March. The decision replaces Joint Ministerial Decision 51483/700 to set out
16th March 2022 - France |
France: Deputy Moetai Brotherson has introduced into the National Assembly a bill to launch a five-year pilot programme on recreational and medical cannabis in the overseas
Germany: Kristine Lütke, drug policy spokeswoman for the coalition Free Democratic Party (FDP) has told the German Pharmacist Newspaper she aims to present a
Global: The 65th annual session of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs is taking place this week in Vienna. The Commission directs international drug policy
Belgium: The Federal Public Health Service has updated its list of notified herbal products for smoking, which includes hemp flowers and other smokable CBD products. Products
Germany: Five men have been charged in Berlin’s Regional Court with drug trafficking after selling CBD flowers as smoking products with less than 0.2% THC, press
Spain: The president of the Spanish Society of Psychiatry (SEP) has warned of a possible risk to mental health of medicinal cannabis use, press
15th March 2022 - Europe |
EU: The European Commission held a meeting yesterday, 14th March, between the Expert Group for Agricultural Markets and the civil dialogue group (CDG)
14th March 2022 - Europe |
EU: The European Commission’s Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed (ScoPAFF) approved the proposal to raise the tolerated limits of THC
Germany: When talking about cannabis legalisation for recreational purposes, the federal drug commissioner, Burkhard Blienert, said in an interview that the discussion is still
14th March 2022 - Europe, Netherlands |
Netherlands: Aardachtig company has announced it obtained a licence to legally grow cannabis and to produce recreational cannabis products as part of the
11th March 2022 - Europe |
EU: On 14th March the European Commission (EC) will hold a meeting between the Expert Group for Agricultural Market and the civil dialogue
11th March 2022 - Europe |
EU: The discussion and voting of the European Commission’s (EC) proposal to increase the maximum tolerated amount of THC in hemp seeds and
Malta: The leader of the main opposition party, Bernard Grech, said during a conference this week that, if his Nationalist Party holds the
Spain: Today, the Health and Consumption Committee of the Parliament held a meeting to inform about the Parliamentary Subcommittee on Medical Cannabis, which
