Elba Manzanilla Zapata, Author at ECigIntelligence

Fresh restrictions in the pipeline: Greece regulatory report

Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata || 14th October 2019 || Regulatory reports |

A new proposal regarding e-cigs could bring fresh restrictions and enforcement if approved. This report explores recent updates to current regulations in Greece ...

European industry standards: where we are

Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata || 15th July 2019 || Regulatory reports |

This ECigIntelligence report looks at the need for, and process of, common standards across products within – and outside – the European Union ...

Rules are being loosened: Italy regulatory report

Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata || 29th March 2019 || Regulatory reports |

While the Italian government has taken a positive stance on vapour products, a tax of €0.08 per ml now applies to nicotine-containing products, and €0.04 per ml for zero-nicotine products ...

United Kingdom regulatory report

Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata || 28th January 2019 || Regulatory reports |

The UK is still set to leave the EU, after which the Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) will no longer apply but the Tobacco and Related Products Regulations 2016 will remain in force with minor amendments ...

Republic of Ireland regulatory report

Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata || 10th January 2019 || Regulatory reports |

This regulatory report on Ireland includes updates on labelling and packaging, upcoming restrictions on retail, including a ban on sales to minors, public usage, advertising and marketing, and taxation ...

Regulatory implications of Britain’s departure from the EU

Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata || 4th January 2019 || Regulatory reports |

This special report, to be read in conjunction with our latest UK regulatory report, outlines the scenario for the future of British e-cigarette and heated tobacco regulation after the UK's coming departure from the EU ...

Shake and vape facing new rules: Greece regulatory report

Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata || 9th October 2018 || Regulatory reports |

In our latest look at regulations in Greece, we find that there are planned regulations for DIY and shake and vape products and only TPD-compliant, nicotine-containing products notified to the Ministry of Health may be produced and sold...

Latin America regulatory report: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Panama, Uruguay

Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata || 5th September 2018 || Regulatory reports |

In this far-reaching report, ECigIntelligence looks at the varied legal approaches to e-cigs and vaping across Latin America, focussing on Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Panama, Colombia, Chile and...

New taxation, old uncertainties: Sweden regulatory report

Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata || 12th July 2018 || Regulatory reports |

Nicotine-containing e-liquids became subject to a new tax in Sweden in July 2018, a year after the country’s regulations on e-cigarettes came into force with the transposition into national law of the EU Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) ...

Tough new warnings for e-cigs coming soon: South Korea regulatory report

Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata || 26th June 2018 || Regulatory reports |

Our updated report on e-cig regulation in South Korea details the tough new warnings with graphic images which will be required on packets of nicotine-containing e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products ...

CBD vaping in France: making sense of a legal grey area

Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata || 13th June 2018 || Regulatory reports |

The use of cannabidiol (CBD) in e-liquids is not specifically regulated in France, and in a grey area as no law or competent authority has officially confirmed the legality of its use in an e-cigarette as a consumer...

Spain: regulatory report on ‘devices capable of releasing nicotine’

Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata || 23rd May 2018 || Regulatory reports |

Spain transposed the EU TPD into national law in 2017. Law 28/2005 in its consolidated version now regulates all aspects of the use, sale and promotion of nicotine-containing e-cigarettes ...

Court lifts Switzerland’s ban on sales of e-cigs with nicotine

Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata || 30th April 2018 || News analysis |

The Swiss Federal Administrative Court has reportedly lifted the sales ban on nicotine-containing e-cigarettes issued in 2015 by the Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office (BLV) ...

The medical route to market approval in the UK – the pros and cons

Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata || 21st March 2018 || Regulatory reports |

The MHRA, Britain’s pharmaceutical regulator, is currently encouraging and supporting companies to submit medicines authorisation applications for e-cigarette products. Here we explain what that process entails ...

Shake and vape and the law in the EU

Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata || 16th March 2018 || Regulatory reports |

As shake and vape products increase in popularity in Europe in response to the restrictions imposed by the EU’s TPD, we take a close look at country-by-country regulation ...

Greece regulatory report: cross-border ban details and a legal challenge

Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata || 2nd February 2018 || Regulatory reports |

Our updated report on the current state of e-cigarette regulation in Greece includes interpretation from the customs authority on what is covered by the cross-border distance sales ban and news of a legal challenge to the ban on...

Online sales now banned: Italy regulatory report

Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata || 25th January 2018 || Regulatory reports |

In our latest look at the Italian market, we see that distance sales, including domestic and cross-border, are now banned under the latest amendment (known as the “Vicari amendment”) approved in the Italian parliament ...

Italy bans the online sale of nicotine-containing e-cig products

Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata || 11th December 2017 || News analysis |

Online sales of nicotine-containing e-cigarette products have been banned in Italy following the adoption by the Chamber of Deputies of the so-called Vicari Amendment ...

Could the TPD allow for reduced-risk claims?

Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata || 6th December 2017 || Regulatory reports |

Nearly all EU member states have interpreted article 13 of the European TPD to ban all claims related to health in the absence of a medical certificate. However, there may be a pathway to a reduced-risk...

Still European for now, Britain goes its own ways: UK regulatory report

Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata || 22nd November 2017 || Regulatory reports |

Our updated report on the state of e-cigarette regulation in the UK unpicks the differences between England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. ...

Presence of nicotine determines applicable regime: South Korea regulatory report

Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata || 8th November 2017 || Regulatory reports |

Different rules apply in South Korea to nicotine and non-nicotine products, one of which is defined as tobacco, the other as a quasi-drug. ...

Belgium regulatory report: a year after TPD, are further restrictions in the pipeline?

Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata || 18th October 2017 || Regulatory reports |

Transposition of the TPD into Belgian law has been force since January 2017. The restrictions it imposes include a ban on online sales as well as product, packaging, labelling and advertising restrictions ...

Two possible paths to e-cig legalisation: Mexico regulatory report

Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata || 4th October 2017 || Regulatory reports |

The sale of e-cigarette products is banned in Mexico under the General Tobacco Control Law, although a modest e-cigarette market does exist. In 2015 Mexico’s highest court unanimously held that the regulator’s interpretation of Mexico’s Tobacco Control law is...

Q&A: how cross-border distance sales are regulated across the EU

Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata || 12th September 2017 || Regulatory reports |

Based on questions that have arisen in conversations with the e-cigarette industry, our Q&A considers the different regulatory problems that may arise with cross-border distance marketing within the EU or from other countries to Europe ...

Cyprus: strict on ads and public vaping, but lenient in other respects

Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata || 14th August 2017 || Regulatory reports |

ECigIntelligence’s up-to-date round-up of the law and regulations surrounding e-cigarettes on the most highly populated island in the Mediterranean ...

Sweden’s new e-cig law transposes TPD

Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata || 21st July 2017 || Regulatory reports |

E-cigarettes are regulated in Sweden by the Act on Electronic Cigarettes and Refill Containers (2017/425), which came into force on 1st July 2017. It transposed the EU’s Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) into Swedish legislation. Non-nicotine products are currently...

Spain: regulation now in force, and what further restrictions lie ahead

Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata || 4th July 2017 || Regulatory reports |

Spain was among the last European Union member states to transpose the TPD into national law, adopting it through royal decree only in June 2017 – and there are almost certainly further restrictions on e-cigarettes to...

Ireland: how TPD regulations apply in the Emerald Isle

Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata || 14th June 2017 || Regulatory reports |

The interpretation of the European TPD by the Irish Department of Health has resulted in a slightly more restrictive stance towards e-cigarettes in the Republic of Ireland than in the neighbouring UK, but there is no nationwide ban...

Austria: restrictions go beyond TPD requirements

Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata || 7th June 2017 || Regulatory reports |

Austrian legislation regulates both nicotine-free and nicotine-containing product, going further than the TPD, with online sales banned and both advertising and vaping in public places heavily...

Italy: minimum restrictions but tax on e-cigs with nicotine

Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata || 19th May 2017 || Regulatory reports |

The Italian government has implemented the minimum level of restrictions required by the European Union’s (EU’s) Tobacco Products Directive (TPD). A tax of €0.393 (0.438 USD) per millilitre is imposed on all e-cig products that contain...

France: post-TPD rules get some needed clarification

Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata || 18th May 2017 || Regulatory reports |

One of the world’s largest e-cigarette markets, France has transposed the European TPD in several pieces of legislation, starting with the Health Law plus decrees and ordinances with more detailed product specific regulation for e-cigarettes....

Finland: online sales banned in hardline TPD

Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata || 19th April 2017 || Regulatory reports |

ECigIntelligence finds a stringent approach to e-cigarette regulation in Finland, where nicotine-containing products were only recently...

TPD is being transposed as UK plans to leave the EU

Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata || 15th March 2017 || Regulatory reports |

In this March 2017 report on the UK market, we find that there is currently no national legal restriction on the public usage of e-cigarettes in the United Kingdom. Variations in interpretation of the TPD include a modification...

Greece’s TPD law: distance sales allowed, new tax now in place

Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata || 6th February 2017 || Regulatory reports |

The European Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) is now operative in Greece, with laws in place that are specific to e-cigarettes and...

Belgium: end of medical regulation, new consumer regime imminent

Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata || 6th December 2016 || Regulatory reports |

The new Belgian law, transposing the TPD, comes into force in January 2017. It will end the classification of e-cigarettes as medical devices and impose severe restrictions, including an online sales ban as well as product, packaging, labelling...

Australia: hardline attitudes and red tape make for a difficult road ahead

Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata || 22nd November 2016 || Regulatory reports |

Though states and territories get to make their own rules, vaping products containing nicotine are effectively outlawed across Australia - and life isn't much easier for sellers and users of non-nictotine...

France regulatory report: public spaces relaxed, ads banned

Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata || 5th September 2016 || Regulatory reports |

One of the world’s largest e-cig markets, France has transposed the Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) in several pieces of legislation, starting with the Health Law plus decrees and ordinances with more detailed product specific regulation for e-cigarettes. The most...

Sweden prepares for consumer regulation after court decision

Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata || 6th June 2016 || Regulatory reports |

Draft legislation to transpose Article 20 of the Tobacco Products Directive into Swedish national legislation will be in force by October 2016. The Swedish government is taking quite a lenient approach by allowing distance sales and omitting public...

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