CHAPTER 2DEFINITIONS

Article 3

1.

For the purposes of this Directive cigarettes shall mean:

(a)

rolls of tobacco capable of being smoked as they are and which are not cigars or cigarillos within the meaning of Article 4(1);

(b)

rolls of tobacco which, by simple non-industrial handling, are inserted into cigarette-paper tubes;

(c)

rolls of tobacco which, by simple non-industrial handling, are wrapped in cigarette paper.

2.

A roll of tobacco referred to in paragraph 1 shall, for excise duty purposes, be considered as two cigarettes where, excluding filter or mouthpiece, it is longer than 8 cm but not longer than 11 cm, as three cigarettes where, excluding filter or mouthpiece, it is longer than 11 cm but not longer than 14 cm, and so on.