Austria beefs up regulatory stance with Non-Smoking Act

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 21st January 2019 || Regulatory briefing |

Austria

EU

Europe

Policy and Politics

Public Health and Medicine

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...

Experts, smokers and vapers to clarify UK research priorities

Written by Barnaby Page || 18th January 2019 || Regulatory briefing |

England

EU

Europe

Northern Ireland

Scotland

United Kingdom

Wales

Market Research

Public Health and Medicine

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

British smokers and vapers, as well as medical experts, are being asked to help define priorities for scientific research on e-cigarettes. The E-cigarettes Priority Setting Partnership project is beginning its open consultation with an online survey consisting of just...

Youth vaping ‘an existential threat’ to US e-cig industry, warns Gottlieb

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 16th January 2019 || Regulatory briefing |

North America

United States

Policy and Politics

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

The entire US e-cigarette industry could be wrecked by the country’s youth vaping “epidemic”, US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner Scott Gottlieb has warned ...

French advisory council recommends e-cigs as aids to quitting smoking

Written by ECigIntelligence || 14th January 2019 || Regulatory briefing |

Europe

France

Policy and Politics

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

E-cigarettes should be used in France to help smokers quit the habit, says an official consultative assembly that reports to the prime minister, National Assembly and Senate ...

Israel adopts plain packaging and ad restrictions, prepares flavour ban

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 8th January 2019 || Regulatory briefing |

Asia

Israel

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 ...

Thailand, the ‘world’s most anti-vaping country’, looks at legalisation

Written by ECigIntelligence || 7th January 2019 || Regulatory briefing |

Asia

Thailand

Policy and Politics

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

Thailand – ranked by delegates at the Global Forum on Nicotine as the worst country in the world in which to be an e-cigarette user – is considering legalising vaping and taxing e-cig imports ...

Vape shop sues state authority over ‘censorship’ of e-liquid labels

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 2nd January 2019 || Regulatory briefing |

North America

Oregon

United States

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

Oregon’s restrictions on packaging have gone too far, amounting to unconstitutional censorship, according to representatives who filed a lawsuit against the state health authority ...

2018, a year of attempts to bring clarity to e-cig and HnB regulation

Written by ECigIntelligence || 31st December 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

Asia

Canada

Europe

North America

United States

World

Companies

Policy and Politics

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

Regulation, regulation, regulation was the theme of 2018. ECigIntelligence brings you its round-up of the developments that marked the old year and may shape the direction of those to come in the world of vaping and HnB ...

India aims to ramp up Information Technology Act to block e-cig promotion

Written by Marija Obradovic || 27th December 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

Asia

India

Marketing and Retailing

Policy and Politics

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

New changes to the Information Technology Act aim to block any information on the internet promoting e-cigarettes to residents of India. This week, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) proposed an amendment to the Draft of the...

Industry and stakeholders react to US Surgeon General’s advisory

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 21st December 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

North America

United States

Companies

Policy and Politics

Public Health and Medicine

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

Tuesday’s advisory on e-cigarettes from US Surgeon General Jerome Adams sparked a response from relevant actors for the industry that fell along the usual lines; industry members indicated displeasure with the advisory, while some tobacco control groups and...

Tobacco advisory group steers Finland towards plain packaging for e-cigs

Written by ECigIntelligence || 20th December 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

EU

Europe

Finland

Policy and Politics

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

Finland could become the first country in the world to insist on plain packaging for e-cigarettes if the recommendations of a working group appointed by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health are implemented ...

Colombian bid to regulate vaping as smoking tied up in political numbers

Written by ECigIntelligence || 19th December 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

Colombia

South America

Policy and Politics

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

A new bill proposed in Colombia’s Senate is paving the way for the country to begin regulating e-cigarettes on a par with tobacco – though the plan is tied up in the country’s complex political arithmetic ...

‘We must protect our children’ from ‘historic epidemic’ – US surgeon general

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 18th December 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

North America

United States

Policy and Politics

Public Health and Medicine

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

US Surgeon General Jerome Adams picked up the now familiar language of FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb when he declared youth vaping “officially an epidemic” in an advisory on e-cigs ...

Latest survey figures fill in some of the gaps on US teen vaping

Written by Barnaby Page || 18th December 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

North America

United States

Policy and Politics

Public Health and Medicine

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

Fresh data on teen vaping in the US broadly supports the numbers on which the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has based recent policy, but also casts doubt on some of the details ...

Italy reduces e-cigarette and heat-not-burn tax burden by up to 80%

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 14th December 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

EU

Europe

Italy

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 ...

UK government agrees to take a fresh look at vaping rules after Brexit

Written by ECigIntelligence || 13th December 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

EU

Europe

United Kingdom

Policy and Politics

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

The UK government will review the TPD in the light of the country’s coming departure from the EU, having accepted all the recommendations in the Science and Technology Committee’s report on e-cigs ...

Californian senators aim to get ahead of the FDA with flavours ban

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 12th December 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

California

Maryland

North America

United States

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

California legislators are aiming to ban flavoured e-liquids and tobacco, singling out “fruit, chocolate, vanilla, honey, candy, cocoa, dessert, alcoholic beverage, menthol, mint, wintergreen, herb or spice” flavours ...

Good science supports e-cig flavours, claims industry association

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 11th December 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

North America

United States

Public Health and Medicine

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

While the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says it is committed to science-based regulation, one industry association is using the existing science on flavours to fight against the agency’s policy plans ...

New Zealand minister puts forward plan for e-cigarette regulation

Written by ECigIntelligence || 10th December 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

Australasia

New Zealand

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

The minister charged with drawing up proposed regulation of e-cigarettes in New Zealand has done so, based on the stated belief that vaping and smokeless tobacco are “highly likely to be much less harmful than smoking” ...

Italian decree, Dutch agreement, and other European news

Written by ECigIntelligence || 3rd December 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

EU

Europe

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

Details of legal changes, proposals and notices in 19 countries and at EU level were among 73 stories published last month by ECigIntelligence to subscribers through our daily European Live Alerts ...

California ready to get tougher, Illinois veto stands, and other news

Written by ECigIntelligence || 3rd December 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

California

Illinois

North America

United States

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

Details of legal changes and proposals in 15 states and at federal level were among 69 stories published last month by ECigIntelligence to subscribers through our daily US Live Alerts ...

Another bill put forward as Ukraine continues to ponder e-cig regulation

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 29th November 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

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 ...

Tragedy? Or FDA comedy? The given statistics don’t show enough to tell

Written by Barnaby Page || 28th November 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

North America

United States

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

The US FDA and its commissioner Scott Gottlieb have been using figures drawn from the National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS) to justify clamping down more strongly on youth vaping. But is the data all it seems? ...

Health Canada issues legal warning over ‘lifestyle’ ads for Vype

Written by ECigIntelligence || 28th November 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

Canada

North America

Companies

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

Health Canada has begun cracking down on e-cigarette advertising campaigns that it believes contravene the country’s new legislation prohibiting lifestyle advertising ...

Now Indian government tells customs to seize all e-cig and HnB imports

Written by Marija Obradovic || 27th November 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

Asia

India

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

Two weeks after the Delhi High Court decided that an advisory banning e-cigarettes was not binding on India’s states, the national government has issued a new notice calling on customs officers to seize imports ...

Plain packaging and usage restrictions among Dutch plans for e-cigs

Written by ECigIntelligence || 26th November 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

EU

Europe

Netherlands

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

The Dutch government is proposing to insist on plain packaging for e-cigarette products from 2022. That is one of the startling measures proposed in the long-awaited National Prevention Agreement ...

Court of Justice rejects Swedish Match bid to overturn European snus ban

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 22nd November 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

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 ...

South Australia to ban online sales, bring other regulation in line with tobacco

Written by ECigIntelligence || 21st November 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

Australasia

Australia

Marketing and Retailing

Policy and Politics

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

Online sales of vape products will be banned in South Australia from the first quarter of 2019 after the state’s parliament passed a law on 15th November, with the support of the state’s two majority parties ...

Poland gives extra time to prepare for taxation by setting 0% starting rate

Written by ECigIntelligence || 21st November 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

Europe

Poland

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

The Polish government is to delay imposing excise tax on e-liquids and novel tobacco products – due to commence on 1st January 2019 – by setting a 0% rate until the end of June 2020 ...

Stop sending vapers outside with the smokers, say British MPs

Written by ECigIntelligence || 20th November 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

Europe

United Kingdom

Policy and Politics

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

The UK should relax restrictions on vaping further, according to a group of concerned members of parliament, who say people should be told second-hand vapour is no threat to health ...

What will Brexit really mean for the UK e-cigarette industry?

Written by ECigIntelligence || 19th November 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

EU

Europe

United Kingdom

Policy and Politics

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

The British government last week presented the 585-page draft withdrawal agreement which lays out how it intends the UK to leave the European Union. So what does it all mean for the e-cigarette industry ...

Big Tobacco welcomes FDA youth restrictions – but not proposed menthol ban

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 16th November 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

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 ...

CDC: high school vaping up by 78% in a year, flavours used more widely

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 16th November 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

North America

United States

Policy and Politics

Public Health and Medicine

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released long-anticipated new figures from the National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS), showing a sharp year-on-year increase in the number of high school and middle school students who vape...

Gottlieb proposes limiting flavour sales to adults-only premises

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 15th November 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

North America

United States

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will be revisiting its compliance policy around the deeming for flavours other than menthol, mint, and tobacco ...

UK advertising authority opens the door to health claims for e-cigs

Written by ECigIntelligence || 13th November 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

EU

Europe

United Kingdom

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

The body in charge of regulating advertising in the UK will now allow ads for e-cigarettes to promote the products’ health benefits. The ruling by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) came into effect immediately ...

EU tells Belgium it can’t make up all its own rules on HnB

Written by ECigIntelligence || 13th November 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

Belgium

EU

Europe

Policy and Politics

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

Attempts by Belgium to impose new strict regulations on heated-tobacco products may run into problems with the European Union ...

Euro politicians get round the table in Brussels to discuss e-cig regulation

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 12th November 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

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 ...

FDA set to ban fruit and candy flavours in convenience stores and fuel stations

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 9th November 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

North America

United States

Washington

Policy and Politics

Public Health and Medicine

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 ...

Dutch health minister Blokhuis plans crackdown on e-cigs and HnB

Written by ECigIntelligence || 8th November 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

EU

Europe

Netherlands

Policy and Politics

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

Dutch health secretary Paul Blokhuis is to reveal this month a proposed new set of regulations on heated tobacco and e-cigarettes, part of the National Prevention Agreement on smoking, obesity and alcohol ...

Florida passes the bundle, Montana and South Dakota reject taxes

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 7th November 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

North America

United States

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

Florida’s amendment which controversially bundled an offshore drilling ban with an indoor vaping ban was passed by voters on midterm election day with around 68% approval. But in Montana and South Dakota tax plans were rejected ...

Strict regulation can aid development, says harm reduction expert

Written by ECigIntelligence || 7th November 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

EU

Europe

United Kingdom

Regulation and Legislation

Technology and Innovation

Regulatory briefing

Tight regulation doesn’t necessarily hamper product development, and stricter requirements could even help, according to the technical director of British tobacco harm reduction specialist Kind Consumer ...

Belgium moves to add HnB devices to the ban on online sales

Written by ECigIntelligence || 6th November 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

Belgium

EU

Europe

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

Internet sales of heated-tobacco devices will shortly be banned in Belgium, where selling e-cigarettes online has been illegal since 2016 ...

Government survey finds one in five young Germans has tried vaping

Written by ECigIntelligence || 5th November 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

EU

Europe

Germany

Policy and Politics

Public Health and Medicine

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

The number of people vaping in Germany is rising, with those aged between 16 and 29 particularly drawn to e-cigarettes, according to the federal government’s latest drug and addiction report ...

Swiss vape trade opts for a self-imposed ban on sales to kids

Written by ECigIntelligence || 2nd November 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

Europe

Switzerland

Companies

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

Fifty Swiss e-cigarette manufacturers and sellers have signed up to a code of conduct voluntarily banning sales of vaping products to under-18s and advertising aimed at minors ...

Strong language: Gottlieb upgrades youth use from ‘epidemic’ to ‘tragedy’

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 31st October 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

North America

United States

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

The language used by US FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb to describe youth vaping is getting stronger. What he formerly called an “epidemic” has become a “tragedy” in latest statement on the issue ...

Czech Republic HnB tax is likely to be applied early next year

Written by ECigIntelligence || 31st October 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

Czech Republic

EU

Europe

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

The Czech parliament is considering a bill to introduce an excise tax next year on heated tobacco products. Under the plan, the tax rate would be set at CZK2.236 (€0.09) per gram of tobacco ...

UK budget includes new tax on heated tobacco at higher than expected rate

Written by Barnaby Page || 30th October 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

EU

Europe

United Kingdom

Policy and Politics

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

The UK will next year introduce one of Europe’s highest taxes for heated tobacco (heat-not-burn) products, following an announcement in the Chancellor’s budget ...

New York conference spotlights opposing views in youth usage debate

Written by ECigIntelligence || 30th October 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

North America

United States

Policy and Politics

Public Health and Medicine

Regulatory briefing

The fierce debate on issues of youth usage and the effectiveness of regulation took centre stage at a conference on e-cigarettes held at New York University ...

San Fran ban inspires California trend against flavoured e-liquids

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 29th October 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

California

North America

United States

Marketing and Retailing

Policy and Politics

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

After passing a public vote this summer, the San Francisco ban on e-liquid flavours has had a wildfire-like effect in California. The various bans affect all flavours except tobacco-flavoured e-liquids ...

Relief for Italy’s vapour industry as 95% of its tax debt is cancelled

Written by Pablo Cano Trilla || 25th October 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

EU

Europe

Italy

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

The Italian Council of Ministers has cancelled 95% of the debt owed by the country’s vaping industry for unpaid taxes on nicotine-free e-liquids ...