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Retail and wholesale | Amendments
Amendments announced
- Ban on year-end fireworks
- Gift vouchers should be valid for 2 years
- No forced opening hours for shops
- Web shops and online platforms should do more to protect customers
- Houses must have a smoke detector on every floor
- Crash helmets mandatory for light moped riders
- Ban on flavoured e-cigarettes
- Deposit on beverage cans
- Fashion chains must collect discarded clothing
- Security of smart devices must be improved
- Supermarkets may no longer sell cigarettes
- Corona health checks
- Supplying updates to become mandatory
- Preventing child labour
- European emission limitations for stoves advanced (withdrawn)
- Digital register for second-hand traders
- Better protection for tenants renting shops
- Temporary subsidy fireworks ban COVID-19 – Storage and transport (TSVC-19)
- Ban on cash payments over €3,000
- Ban on tobacco advertising for specialist stores
Amendments in force
- Wearing of face mask mandatory in indoor public spaces – reinstated
- Ban on sale of single-use plastics
- Every dog needs a pet passport
- Deposit on small plastic bottles
- New VAT rules for international e-commerce
- New rules for selling alcohol
- Manufacturers and importers of medical devices must register in EUDAMED