MPs back easing of e-cig regulation – but leave the door open to taxes

Written by Freddie Dawson || 17th August 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

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United Kingdom

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Conclusions and recommendations from the Parliamentary Science and Technology Committee investigation into e-cigarettes have confirmed yet again the UK’s status as the most vape-friendly major market ...

European Commission wants five more years to take TPD action

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 17th August 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

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Europe

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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 ...

Health groups accuse e-cig brands of dodging FDA approval – and FDA of letting them

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 17th August 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

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Six tobacco control and health organisations have alleged in an open letter to the FDA that many e-cigarette products have hit the US market without approval in violation of federal regulations ...

It looks like the end of the road for Cole-Bishop grandfather reform

Written by ECigIntelligence || 16th August 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

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United States

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Appetite for changing US FDA e-cigarette regulations through congressional action may have dried up, with accusations that in its latest version the much-hoped-for Cole-Bishop amendment had been “turned into an anti-vaping law” ...

Tax freeze after a hot Italian summer won’t solve industry’s problems

Written by ECigIntelligence || 14th August 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

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Italy

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Regulatory briefing

It has been an intense summer for the Italian vaping industry, and few are convinced that simply suspending the vaping tax – as now looks likely – will solve the long-term problem for the sector ...

Trademark troubles in the business of making a name for yourself

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

Europe

United Kingdom

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

The choice of a business name is fraught with possible perils for those wishing to set up in the e-cigarette business in the UK. The difficulties may begin with choosing a trademark and getting it registered ...

Florida’s proposed workplace vape ban amendment could face legal challenge

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 13th August 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

Florida

North America

United States

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory briefing

A proposed revision of the Florida constitution that would ban vaping in indoor workplaces could be subject to a legal challenge even before voters see it on the referendum ballot in November ...

FDA files memo in opposition to public health coalition lawsuit

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 10th August 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

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This week, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) filed a memo in opposition to a motion for a summary judgment in US District Court in Maryland for a lawsuit against the tobacco deeming extensions. The lawsuit arose...

Chinese authorities arrest 30 suspects in two HnB smuggling cases

Written by Haoqun Wang || 10th August 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

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A total of 30 suspects have been arrested in a joint anti-smuggling operation by Chinese law enforcement. China Tobacco Ningbo, Ningbo municipal police department and Ningbo municipal anti-smuggling bureau joined forces ...

EU-CEG sees huge number of submissions since TPD rollout

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 8th August 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

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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...

FDA’s Gottlieb and Zeller seek to reduce red tape as part of future strategy

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

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Commissioner Gottlieb seemingly wants to streamline the premarket approval...

Italian Senate approves freeze on e-cig tax; final vote due in September

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

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Italy

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The Italian Senate today approved a proposal to temporarily suspend the country’s contentious tax on e-cigarettes. The plan to freeze taxation until 18th December will now have to be passed by the Chamber of Deputies (Camera dei Deputati),...

Will Mexico’s new president be more friendly towards vaping?

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

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The election of a new president could provide the impetus for a more open regulatory regime for vapers in Mexico, according to an e-cigarette lobby group ...

Study finds e-vapour evaporates in seconds, while smoke hangs around

Written by ECigIntelligence || 1st August 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

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E-cigarette vapour does not stay in the air for more than a few seconds after it has been exhaled, researchers in Switzerland and Lithuania have found ...

Attorney generals throw their weight behind calls to ban flavours

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 24th July 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

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A bipartisan coalition of attorney generals from nine states, led by Barbara D. Underwood of New York, have called on the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to ban flavoured tobacco ...

PMI runs into trouble with UK government over IQOS ads

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 24th July 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

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Philip Morris International (PMI) is seeking an “urgent meeting” with the UK Department of Health after being told to stop advertising its heated tobacco device IQOS ...

More state bans loom for India’s beleaguered e-cig industry

Written by ECigIntelligence || 23rd July 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

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The e-cigarette crackdown in India has continued with new bans proposed in the southern state of Tamil Nadu and the northern state of Rajasthan ...

‘Make your voice heard’ as India and South Africa mull over regulation

Written by Freddie Dawson || 18th July 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

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Members of the e-cigarette industry in South Africa and India, or looking to do business in those countries, have been urged to submit comments to the various bodies preparing legislation there ...

FDA warns of looming deadline for comment periods on flavours and nicotine levels in combustibles

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 13th July 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has warned of impending deadlines for comment periods on several of its advanced notices of proposed rulemaking...

UK’s tax plans include a new category for heated tobacco

Written by Freddie Dawson || 9th July 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

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Heated-tobacco products are to receive their own taxation category and rate in the UK. A rate and commencement date for the duty on tobacco consumables for heat-not-burn (HnB) products will be announced in the autumn budget ...

‘We’ll fight for our right to flavours’ – campaigners challenge FDA

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 9th July 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

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Members of the US e-cig industry are mobilising to persuade the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the value of flavours in helping adult smokers to switch from combustibles to reduced-risk products ...

Indonesia delays e-liquid tax to October due to ‘a lot of use’

Written by Freddie Dawson || 7th July 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

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The full implementation of a 57% tax on e-liquid in Indonesia has been delayed until 1st October 2018. The tax was originally scheduled to come into force on 1st July ...

New Jersey’s bumper budget includes tax on nicotine liquids

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 5th July 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

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New Jersey governor Phil Murphy included a tax on e-liquids in the wide-ranging and controversial $37.4bn budget he finally signed, narrowly avoiding a shutdown of state services ...

Mass movement – state Senate gets on the Tobacco 21 bus

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 5th July 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

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The Massachusetts Senate has passed a bill raising the purchasing age for tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, to 21. A similar bill was passed by the state House of Representatives in May ...

Health chief defends ‘tobacco’ tag for e-cigs. Meanwhile, across Europe…

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

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All the stories from ECigIntelligence’s June European regulatory Live Alerts can now be found on one page of this site, ordered alphabetically by country ...

Minnesota capital slaps cap on e-cig retailers. And in other news…

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

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All the stories from June’s US regulatory Live Alerts from ECigIntelligence can now be found on one page, ordered alphabetically by state ...

Japan embraces CBD – with eager endorsement in high places

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

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Japan

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Regulatory briefing

Japan, although a socially conservative nation with stringent laws on both medical and recreational marijuana, now allows the sale of CBD products, including e-liquid – and even the prime minister’s wife approves ...

FDA period for comments on planned flavour rules goes into added time

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 2nd July 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has extended the period for comment on its advanced notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM) on flavours until 19th July as part of its continuing broader institutional shift on harm reduction ...

A very special relationship: US and EU
discuss co-operation in regulation

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 27th June 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

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US and European Union officials have held high-level talks in Brussels on possible future co-operation over the regulation of nicotine-containing products and “a wide range of tobacco-related topics” ...

Scots to consult on their vision for a tobacco-free future

Written by Freddie Dawson || 27th June 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

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The Scottish government will consult on a range of new regulations for reduced-risk products, including further restrictions on e-cig advertising, banning some flavours in Hnb products, and banning their public use ...

They do it in the US – but is it right to call e-cigs ‘tobacco products’?

Written by Marc Beishon || 26th June 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

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Should scientists describe e-cigarettes – which contain no tobacco – as tobacco products? Is ENDS a better term? The answer to both questions is a firm “no”, according to the editor of a leading journal ...

Flavour ban? Chicago can’t enforce the regulations it already has

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 26th June 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

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Chicago lawmakers meet today to discuss proposals to ban flavoured e-liquids – but the city already has trouble enforcing existing bans, such as one on the sale of menthol cigarettes within 500ft of a high school ...

Iceland regulates e-cigs for the first time

Written by Freddie Dawson || 22nd June 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

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Iceland passed a new law to specifically regulate and potentially tax e-cigarettes for the first time at a legislative session held last...

Smoking in Brazil – public health experts plead for better data

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

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Brazilian public health officials are trying to make judgements in areas such as the regulation of e-cigarettes without clear data on the country’s smoking demographics – and they want more and better information ...

Short-fill is not a short-cut round TPD regulation, lawyer warns

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

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A British lawyer and engineer has warned manufacturers of nicotine-free e-liquid they still need to comply with legislation concerning the quality of liquids ...

Hong Kong moves towards legal HnB, while keeping e-cigs tightly controlled

Written by Freddie Dawson || 20th June 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

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Hong Kong plans to regulate HnB products in the same way as conventional cigarettes, lifting a rarely-enforced ban. But the current heavy restrictions on nicotine-containing e-cigarettes will remain ...

Provincial bid to put teeth in Argentina’s ineffective e-cig ban

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

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Lawmakers in Argentina’s most populous province are expected to vote on a new bill that bans electronic cigarettes, in a move intended to reinforce a country-wide ban that has been largely ignored ...

Will weary Florida voters care enough to ban indoor vaping – or drilling?

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

Florida

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A proposed ban on indoor vaping in Florida would currently fail – not because harm reduction arguments are winning, but merely because of voter fatigue, according to observers ...

FDA won’t take action against offers of cash for essays on vaping

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

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No action will be taken for now against vaping businesses offering financial incentives in the form of “scholarships” to students to write about e-cigarettes, according to the US FDA ...

Industry association accuses UK Trading Standards of poor enforcement

Written by Freddie Dawson || 18th June 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

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The Independent British Vape Trade Association (IBVTA) says its members are losing business to companies selling illegal products – while in Ireland official inspections found a low level of compliance with regulations ...

France adopts zero tolerance approach to THC in vaping products

Written by ECigIntelligence || 14th June 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

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The French government has moved to clear up a previous grey area in the regulation of CBD-containing e-liquids, stating that no trace of THC will be allowed in any product for sale ...

Expert verdict: ‘fewer respiratory harms than tobacco cigarettes’

Written by Marc Beishon || 13th June 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

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ECigIntelligence health correspondent Marc Beishon assesses some recent papers on the health effects of e-cigarettes and asks when tobacco control regulators will accept the evidence of their harm reduction possibilities ...

Israel to crack down on Juul before general e-cigarette regulation

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 11th June 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

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A few weeks after the launch of the Juul vaping device on the Israeli market, the Ministry of Health has announced restrictive measures against its sale, claiming it contains too much nicotine ...

South Korea takes new graphic approach to e-cig and HnB warnings

Written by ECigIntelligence || 11th June 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

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The South Korean government is stepping up its efforts to discourage use of electronic cigarettes and heated tobacco products with new graphic health warning images that will appear on packages later this year ...

US authorities call into question the legality of CBD

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

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US government agencies have questioned the legality of cannabidiol (CBD) – just as the industry is starting to benefit from increased public awareness ...

FDA allows 30 days extra time for comment on planned rule changes

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 8th June 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has extended by 30 days the comment periods for some advanced notices of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM) ...

Greece makes it clear – no CBD or shake and vape allowed

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

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The Greek Ministry of Health has issued two circulars on e-cig regulation, clearing up a legal grey area by insisting that both CBD and shake-and-vape products are banned in the country ...

Russian ministries disagree over planned e-cig legislation

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 8th June 2018 || Regulatory briefing |

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A draft bill to regulate the use of nicotine-containing e-cigarettesin Russia has received the approval of the Ministry of Economic Development – but the Ministry of Health considers the proposal “a conflict of laws” ...

Nicotine poisonings fall after federal law on childproof packaging

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

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The number of children under the age of six suffering exposure to liquid nicotine in the US has dropped since the introduction of federal legislation requiring it to be sold in childproof containers, a study found ...

Brazil’s tobacco control experts united against legalising vaping

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

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E-cigarettes will not be legalised in Brazil any time soon, according to members of a government science panel who concluded there was not enough scientific evidence to justify supporting them ...