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Regulatory reports

Hardware waste management in the EU

Written by Marija Obradovic | 8th January 2018

The hardware and batteries used in e-cigarette products must be disposed of in line with EU legislation. Packaging should display the crossed-out wheelie bin symbol, which indicates that hardware should be disposed of separately from normal...

Mexico: a new bid to legalise e-cigs

Written by Pablo Cano Trilla | 5th January 2018

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....

Los Angeles: proactively restricting e-cigarettes

Written by Aidan Semmens | 11th December 2017

Los Angeles takes an active approach towards electronic cigarettes, including them in the definition of tobacco products for purposes of the Tobacco Retailing License and public smoking restrictions ...

Could the TPD allow for reduced-risk claims?

Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata | 6th December 2017

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...

South Africa regulatory report: vaping in legal limbo

Written by Marija Obradovic | 23rd October 2017

Nicotine e-cigs can only be sold legally in South Africa at pharmacies under medical licence. There is, however, a thriving black market, and a government promise – yet to be acted on – to regulate...

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

Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata | 4th October 2017

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...

New incoming rules will mean further restrictions in Portugal

Written by Marija Obradovic | 27th September 2017

New legislation regulating nicotine-containing e-cigarettes came into force on 1st January 2016 in Portugal. Current taxes on nicotine e-liquids are €0.30/ml, but a new budget law is due for vote in November 2017 when it will become...

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

Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata | 12th September 2017

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...

Shake and vape: the legal implications in the EU

Written by Marija Obradovic | 24th August 2017

The sale of ingredients for shake and vape – enabling users to mix their own nicotine and non-nicotine e-liquids – is a legal grey area for sellers in many European countries, as it can be...

Heated tobacco and advertising in the European Union

Written by Pablo Cano Trilla | 14th August 2017

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...

Light-touch regulation aids HnB over e-cigs in Japan

Written by Pablo Cano Trilla | 7th August 2017

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...

Canada: national law set to clear up a confusing picture

Written by Aidan Semmens | 28th July 2017

The confused picture of e-cig regulation in Canada, where provinces have established various partial regimes, is set to end with the likely passing of a federal law imposing a unified code ...

Sweden’s new e-cig law transposes TPD

Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata | 21st July 2017

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...

China: the shape of possible e-cig regulation to come

Written by Aidan Semmens | 13th July 2017

With no specific regulation in place, e-cigarettes in China only come under general consumer product rules – but that could change. Our special report investigates current Chinese law and where it might be...

Ireland: how TPD regulations apply in the Emerald Isle

Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata | 14th June 2017

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...

Poland: a stringent approach to vapour products

Written by Marija Obradovic | 8th June 2017

ECigIntelligence brings you updated detail on the state of Polish regulation of e-cigarette products following transposition of the EU Tobacco Products Directive into national law, and reports on how the rules are being enforced in...

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