North America
United States
FDA
Regulation and Legislation
Regulatory briefing
Acting US FDA commissioner Ned Sharpless has expressed his commitment to giving fair consideration to alternatives to smoking – but he still has doubts about vaping ...
Canada
North America
Regulation and Legislation
Regulatory briefing
Health Canada has written to thousands of vaping retailers warning them that inspectors will be visiting them "to verify compliance with the Tobacco and Vaping Products Act" ...
North America
United States
FDA
Regulation and Legislation
Regulatory briefing
The US FDA has created a new digital age verification calendar to help retailers to avoid selling e-cigs and other tobacco products to under-age customers ...
North America
United States
FDA
Policy and Politics
Regulation and Legislation
Regulatory briefing
The US FDA has suggested that the deadline for the submission of premarket tobacco product (PMTA) applications could be significantly advanced ...
North America
United States
FDA
Regulation and Legislation
Regulatory briefing
The US FDA has published its long awaited guidance for premarket tobacco products applications (PMTAs) for e-cigarettes, including a number of non-binding recommendations for vaping manufacturers ...
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Health
Heated tobacco
Policy and Politics
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Regulatory briefing
Health authorities around the world presented their policies against e-cigarettes and novel tobacco products World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) ...
North America
United States
Companies
FDA
Regulation and Legislation
Regulatory briefing
A federal judge has ordered the US FDA to accelerate its reviewing of e-cigarettes currently on the market. Meanwhile, North Carolina’s attorney general is taking Juul to court ...
Australasia
Australia
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Business briefing
A call by the WHO for governments to enforce bans on all tobacco or e-cigarette advertising and sponsorship in sports events has had no formal response from the world of motor racing ...
EU
Europe
Health
Policy and Politics
Regulation and Legislation
Regulatory briefing
The European Commission has allocated a significant part of its health budget for the year to gathering data for the coming revision of the the EU Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) ...
New York
North America
United States
Policy and Politics
Regulation and Legislation
Tax
Regulatory briefing
The New York vapour industry has condemned the state’s new budget for 2020 as a devastating backward step – particularly the introduction from 2020 of a 20% sales tax on all e-liquids ...
North America
United States
FDA
Regulation and Legislation
Regulatory briefing
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) budget for financial year 2020 has been set at $747m, a significant increase on this year’s figure of $611m ...
EU
Europe
United Kingdom
Policy and Politics
Regulation and Legislation
Regulatory briefing
As the UK’s government and parliament continue to tie themselves in knots over the impending departure from the EU, the minister most closely associated with vaping policy has quit his post ...
EU
Europe
Greece
Health
Policy and Politics
Regulation and Legislation
Regulatory briefing
After being for some time the only EU member state to allow only nicotine-containing e-cigarettes on the market, Greece has taken a step forward by regulating the sale of nicotine-free vapour products ...
EU
Europe
Health
Policy and Politics
Regulation and Legislation
Regulatory briefing
Europe’s health authorities have commissioned a science committee to gather evidence on the health risks of e-cigarettes for the coming revision of the Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) ...
Europe
Spain
Health
Heated tobacco
Regulation and Legislation
Regulatory briefing
A new survey reveals that more than half of Spaniards would restrict the use of vaping and novel tobacco products in public places in the same way as smoking ...
North America
United States
FDA
Policy and Politics
Regulation and Legislation
Retail
Regulatory briefing
FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb has announced new action against retailers selling tobacco products to minors and e-cig manufacturers who fail to comply with labelling and advertising regulations ...
Europe
Germany
Regulation and Legislation
Regulatory briefing
The Regional Court of Frankfurt am Main in Germany has awarded two injunctions against the sale and advertising of e-cigarettes through online retailer Amazon, the law magazine LHR reports ...
EU
Europe
Germany
Italy
Policy and Politics
Regulation and Legislation
Regulatory briefing
The European Commission has officially registered a European Citizens’ Initiative which calls for Article 20 of the EU Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) to be replaced by “bespoke legislation” for vaping products ...
Asia
Bahrain
Kuwait
Middle East
Oman
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
United Arab Emirates
Regulation and Legislation
Regulatory briefing
The existing ban on the sale of electronic cigarettes in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will be lifted from mid-April, the Emirates Authority for Standardisation (ESMA) has confirmed ...
Belarus
Europe
Heated tobacco
Regulation and Legislation
Regulatory briefing
A new decree in Belarus regulates electronic cigarettes and heated tobacco for the first time in the country, introducing a number of restrictions after years of no regulation ...
EU
Europe
Policy and Politics
Regulation and Legislation
Regulatory briefing
The European Union’s commissioner for health and food safety, Vytenis Andriukaitis, has expressed concern about the use of electronic cigarettes and new tobacco products by young people ...
Estonia
Europe
Policy and Politics
Regulation and Legislation
Regulatory briefing
Estonian health officials have justified to ECigIntelligence their interpretation of the country’s law as imposing exactly the same rules on vaping products both with and without nicotine ...
EU
Europe
Sweden
Regulation and Legislation
Regulatory briefing
The Swedish Chemicals Agency has changed its interpretation regarding e-liquids with nicotine concentration over 17 mg/ml.
As ECigIntelligence reported a few months ago, authorities required both producers and consumers to obtain a permit for the sale and use of...
EU
Europe
Health
Regulation and Legislation
Regulatory briefing
The European Commission Scientific Committee on Health, Environmental and Emerging Risks has identified e-cigs as one of the main emerging health-related issues in Europe ...
Asia
Japan
Companies
Heated tobacco
Marketing and Retailing
Technology and Innovation
Business briefing
Japan Tobacco (JT) is launching two new heat-not-burn (HnB) devices in the Japanese market on 29th January as it tries to catch up with Philip Morris International (PMI)’s IQOS and British American Tobacco (BAT)’s Glo in its home...
Austria
EU
Europe
Health
Policy and Politics
Regulation and Legislation
Regulatory briefing
Austria has recently tightened up its regulatory stance with the Non Smoking Act (Nichtraucherschutzgesetz) restricting the purchasing age for e-cigs and similar tobacco products to 18 years old, from 1st January 2019. Previously, the minimum age for buying...
Europe
United Kingdom
Health
Policy and Politics
Regulation and Legislation
Business briefing
A video made by public relations firm Freuds for Public Health England (PHE) – whose involvement with the company has caused controversy – has been praised for its portrayal of vaping versus smoking ...
Asia
Israel
Flavours
Regulation and Legislation
Regulatory briefing
Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, has passed a law requiring plain packaging for e-cigarettes. It will also bring in new restrictions on the advertising and marketing, equating e-cigs with combustible tobacco ...
Asia
Australasia
Canada
EU
Europe
India
New Zealand
North America
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World
Companies
Heated tobacco
Policy and Politics
Regulation and Legislation
Technology and Innovation
Business briefing
The year just gone has been an intense one for the vaping industry – and don’t expect 2019 to be any less so. ECigIntelligence looks ahead to the developments that can be expected in both regulation and markets...
EU
Europe
Italy
Heated tobacco
Marketing and Retailing
Policy and Politics
Regulation and Legislation
Regulatory briefing
Italy has passed the much anticipated law reducing tax on e-liquids and halving duties on heated tobacco. The decree cuts the duty on nicotine-containing liquids from 50% to 10% of the tax on conventional cigarettes ...
Europe
Ukraine
Policy and Politics
Regulation and Legislation
Regulatory briefing
Ukraine’s parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, is considering a number of legal amendments that could bring major changes to the regulation of vaping products, including taxation ...
EU
Europe
Sweden
Regulation and Legislation
Regulatory briefing
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has upheld the ban on the sale of snus which has applied since 1992 in the whole EU except Sweden, which was granted an exemption under the 2014 TPD ...
North America
United States
Companies
Policy and Politics
Regulation and Legislation
Regulatory briefing
The tobacco industry has reacted positively to the US FDA plan for limiting most flavour sales to adults-only premises, part of the federal agency’s efforts to tackle high rates of e-cig use among minors ...
Europe
Policy and Politics
Regulation and Legislation
Regulatory briefing
The future of vaping regulation in Europe is generating interest in Brussels, where various groups have been debating the right way ahead ...
North America
United States
Washington
Health
Policy and Politics
Regulation and Legislation
Regulatory briefing
The US FDA is to ban the sale of fruit and candy e-cig flavours. It is reported the ban will affect convenience stores and fuel stations, but not vape stores ...
EU
Europe
United Kingdom
Policy and Politics
Regulation and Legislation
Regulatory briefing
The UK Department of Health is consulting on the changes that will affect the e-cig industry if the UK leaves the EU with no deal with Brussels, especially those affecting product notifications and labelling ...
Europe
France
North America
United Kingdom
United States
Companies
Marketing and Retailing
Regulation and Legislation
Business briefing
Juul has filed a suit at the UK’s High Court claiming its line of UK patents was infringed by French firm J Well – whose CEO told ECigIntelligence it was prepared to fight the allegation ...
Asia
EU
Europe
Kuwait
Russia
South Korea
Ukraine
Health
Heated tobacco
Policy and Politics
Regulation and Legislation
Regulatory briefing
The EU is calling on the World Health Organization to become more involved in regulating heated tobacco – and is urging tight advertising restrictions on the category, ECigIntelligence has learned ...
EU
Europe
Heated tobacco
Policy and Politics
Regulation and Legislation
Regulatory briefing
Most respondents to the European Commission’s consultation on tobacco excise duties do not want a European tax on e-cigarettes. Almost 70% said the best level of tax on e-cigarettes would be no more than the VAT in each...
EU
Europe
France
Germany
Companies
Marketing and Retailing
Technology and Innovation
Regulatory briefing
A German court has ruled that a French e-liquid manufacturer infringed a famous trademark in a judgement that prevents the sale of the offending brand design anywhere in the European Union ...
Europe
Ukraine
Policy and Politics
Regulation and Legislation
Regulatory briefing
The Ukrainian parliament is considering an amendment to the country’s tax code that would impose duty of €0.033 per ml on all e-liquids sold in the country and establish a system for product notification ...
Asia
Israel
Middle East
Heated tobacco
Policy and Politics
Regulation and Legislation
Regulatory briefing
Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has signed an administrative order prohibiting the import and marketing of any e-cigarette product with a nicotine concentration higher than 20 mg/ml ...
EU
Europe
Policy and Politics
Regulation and Legislation
Regulatory briefing
The European Commission has asked for a five-year extension to its powers to implement the EU Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) – reserving its right to perhaps ban later a particular type of e-cigarette ...
EU
Europe
Health
Policy and Politics
Regulation and Legislation
Regulatory briefing
A grand total of 185,635 e-cigarette product notifications have been successfully registered with the European Common Entry Gate (EU-CEG) as of July of this year, ECigIntelligence has learned from the European Commission...