This report provides analysis of some of the findings from our Policy Radar, examining four countries on the brink of elections and exploring how the outcome will affect the tobacco and nicotine sector ...
This reports examines some of the most important changes implemented in the May update of our Policy Radar and provides some key insights into what they mean for the industry ...
While disposable e-cigs are the fastest growing category in the industry, they are also the fastest growing source of concern for policymakers. This report discusses how and why these products could eventually be banned in the EU ...
Analysis of Tamarind Intelligence’s newly launched Policy Radar product captures in detail the current regulatory framework for leading markets globally and enables us to forecast the evolution of regulation over the next five years ...
MEPs recently submitted proposed amendments to the draft report on strengthening Europe in the fight against cancer. ECigIntelligence has read and summarised the most impactful amendments ...
This report explains the ambiguities and contradictions in e-cigarette regulation in India, where the sale, import and manufacture of vapour products have officially been banned since December 2019 ...
A draft amendment to the Chinese Tobacco Monopoly Law was released at the end of March. Pablo Cano Trilla, ECigIntelligence’s head of legal analysis, considers how e-cigarette regulation in China is likely to be affected ...
Written by Pablo Cano Trilla || 20th October 2020 || News analysis |
EU member states will have to decide how to implement a planned European levy on non-recycled plastic packaging waste – to fund it from national budgets or make industry pay for the waste it produces ...
Neither the EU nor the US has a common excise tax for vapour propducts or a common framework that applies throughout all jurisdictions. This report examines how policies and revenues vary between states ...
Member states’ implementations of the EU Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) have varied implications for online selling. This report focuses on sales restrictions, product and packaging restrictions and taxation ...
Implementation of the EU Tobacco Products Directive (TPD), together with national laws, have resulted in varied rules on advertising between different member states. This report provides some clarity ...
ECigIntelligence gained access to a series of documents disclosed by the EU after a freedom of information request that contained its recent conversations with the tobacco and vaping industries. This report summarises the main points ...
This report focuses on two of California's biggest cities – Los Angeles and San Francisco – and their vaping prohibitions and flavour bans. Local governments have decided to react to the “vaping crisis” and have adopted some of...
Electronic cigarettes are now legal in Saudi Arabia and regulated in a similar way to Europe. This report outlines the regulations and restrictions in all areas, including advertising, tax, enforcement, packaging and labelling, and public usage ...
The South African government has publicly taken a radical stance against e-cigarettes, promising to restrict them in the same way as tobacco. This report covers regulatory areas including advertising and marketing, tax and enforcement ...
This report on Israel includes updates on near-future regulation involving age restrictions, product restrictions, labelling and packaging, obligation to notify, retail channels, public usage, advertising and marketing ...
ECigIntelligence presents its comprehensive analysis of which countries have banned the three most popular harm reduction products: nicotine-containing vapour products; heated tobacco; and oral tobacco ...
Heated tobacco products generally benefit from a more benign tax regime in Europe than vapour products. Our report examines tax laws in EU countries where HnB products have been launched ...
E-cigarette companies in Kazakhstan – where e-cigs and heated tobacco products are currently zero-rated for tax – can expect to have to pay tax by 2020, according to the country’s health ministry ...
Written by Pablo Cano Trilla || 5th June 2018 || News analysis |
Sweden is the latest country to join a European trend of taxing electronic cigarettes and other reduced risk alternatives. A new tax has been approved and will come into force soon ...
ECigIntelligence guides you through the sometimes uncertain legal framework that applies in the UK to cannabidiol (CBD) in general, and CBD-containing e-liquids in particular ...
Written by Pablo Cano Trilla || 18th May 2018 || News analysis |
The Italian Customs and Monopolies Agency (AAMS) has issued a bulletin informing the country’s e-cigarette industry of its interpretation of legal requirements arising from the EU Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) ...
What laws regulate the use of cannabidiol (CBD) in e-liquids across the European Union – and what regulatory regime is likely to apply in the future? Our report finds the clear lines in a legal grey area ...
Cannabidiol (CBD) is one of many cannabinoids that can be found in cannabis. While the cannabis plant itself, and many drugs that are extracted from it, are illegal in most parts of the world, CBD, which is non-intoxicating,...
The PRI party’s Senator Marcela Guerra Castillo has presented a new bill to legalise e-cigarettes in Mexico, in response to their continuing popularity. It is a bid to control the quality of products on the market. The bill legalises...
Uncertainty surrounds the Italian e-cigarette market, following a number of recent regulatory decisions and initiatives. These include a court decision on the long-running issue of whether to tax nicotine-free e-liquids; proposals to ban online sales and limit offline...
EU legislation is unclear on how to categorise hybrid devices, which may give manufacturers some degree of choice. This report aims to help them make that choice wisely ...
HnB products benefit from a more benign tax regime than traditional cigarettes, but with no broadly agreed classification, the picture across Europe remains for now inconsistent and...
Heated tobacco products may have an advantage in the EU over both cigarettes and e-cigs as the devices are not classed as tobacco products. It remains to be seen how each country allows them to be promoted ...
In our latest look at Japan, we find the country is a favoured market for heated tobacco products because regulation is much lighter on tobacco than it is on nicotine-containing e-cigs. In a country where 20% of the...
By contrast with other South American countries, which have a de facto ban on vaping, e-cigarettes have until now been virtually unregulated in Colombia. That could soon change, however, with a proposal before Congress to bring e-cigs under...
Manufacturers or suppliers of e-liquids in Europe must determine the toxicity of individual ingredients in their products and label and classify all products accordingly. Here we guide you through the detail of the CLP regulation on classification, labelling...
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