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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...

Austria: restrictions go beyond TPD requirements

Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata | 7th June 2017

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

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...

France: post-TPD rules get some needed clarification

Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata | 18th May 2017

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....

Colombia: a free market faces tobacco-style regulation

Written by Pablo Cano Trilla | 15th May 2017

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...

Hardware notification in Denmark: questions answered

Written by Marija Obradovic | 12th May 2017

From 7th June 2017, all e-cig products launched in Denmark must meet the new requirements for notification and ones that don’t must be removed from the market. As the transitional period is approaching, questions concerning...

Russia: strict regulation appears to be on the way

Written by Marija Obradovic | 11th May 2017

Until now the only law directly affecting e-cigarettes in Russia has been a tax levied on nicotine-containing products. But that looks set to change, with five bills under consideration that would see sweeping restrictions...

Deeming and beyond 2017: exclusive download

Written by ECigIntelligence | 2nd May 2017

Exclusively for ECigIntelligence Platinum subscribers, you can now download a free PDF of the most recent ECigIntelligence report on e-cigarette regulation in the United...

Croatia: law change ‘threatens jobs and cessation efforts’

Written by ECigIntelligence | 20th April 2017

Representatives of Croatia’s vaping industry are protesting against proposed legislation which equates e-cigarettes with combustible tobacco products, claiming it will damage anti-smoking efforts and destroy...

Finland: online sales banned in hardline TPD

Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata | 19th April 2017

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

New Zealand research adds weight to the relative harm argument

Written by ECigIntelligence | 19th April 2017

Researchers in New Zealand have produced a paper comparing the relative health risks of e-cigs and smoking which they hope will add more information to the limited pool the authorities are dipping into to guide...

Estonia: online ban, taxes on the way

Written by ECigIntelligence | 18th April 2017

While The Tobacco Act classes e-cigarettes as tobacco-related products, Estonia's government is considering a draft amendment to that bill that could see domestic online sales may be banned in 2019. Currently, e-liquid is not taxed,...

Texas: few restrictions but plenty of red tape

Written by Aidan Semmens | 18th April 2017

ECigIntelligence guides you through the thicket of bureaucratic requirements faced by retailers engaging in either face-to-face or distance sales of vapour products in the Lone Star...

Mexico: illegal trade goes on openly in the streets

Written by ECigIntelligence | 11th April 2017

A year and a half after the country’s Supreme Court overturned a fine on a vape salesman, e-cigarettes remain illegal in Mexico – but they also remain openly on sale, with no prosecutions in...

Lithuania: restrictions in line with TPD

Written by ECigIntelligence | 6th April 2017

Our guide to Lithuania’s amended Tobacco law, which came into force on 20th May 2016, transposing the European TPD and imposing various legal restrictions on vaping...

Romania: tax unchanged, advertising restricted

Written by Marija Obradovic | 30th March 2017

In this March 2017 report, we see that Romania has transposed the Tobacco Products Directive (TPD). There is a tax on some e-cigarette products, but vaping is still allowed in most public...

Crystal ball-gazing: how e-cigs could shape public health by 2050

Written by ECigIntelligence | 27th March 2017

BAT has come up with a model for assessing the impact of tobacco- and nicotine-related “next generation products” at the population leve to give regulators more evidence about the long-term health effects relative to trends...

California: vaping treated as if it was tobacco

Written by Aidan Semmens | 24th March 2017

In this March 2017 look at regulations in California, we find that nicotine-containing products are subject to a wholesale tax of 27.3%. This tax rate will be revised periodically. Vaping in the state is treated...

TPD is being transposed as UK plans to leave the EU

Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata | 15th March 2017

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...

Hungary opens for vaping trade, but with stiff restrictions

Written by ECigIntelligence | 10th March 2017

Hungary has finally opened its market for sale of nicotine e-cigarettes by adopting changes to its national tobacco laws and aligning them with TPD standards. Nevertheless, Hungarian regulation remains among the most severe in Europe....

FDA moves to restrict distribution of free samples

Written by Aidan Semmens | 9th March 2017

Under the Food And Drug Administration’s Code of Federal Regulations Title 21, distribution of free samples of tobacco products is prohibited. For now, the FDA has published draft guidance on the subject, in order to...

European e-cig product notifications expected to top 140,000

Written by David Palacios Rubio | 27th February 2017

Europe’s e-cigarette manufacturers and importers had submitted more than 70,000 individual products to the European Union Common Entry Gate (EU-CEG) by the end of 2016 – and that number is expected to have rapidly...

Impacts of regulatory changes on the global e-cigarette market

Written by Aidan Semmens | 20th February 2017

Is regulation always a bad thing for the vapour industry? In a report based on a presentation given to industry experts in Washington, ECigIntelligence's international legal analyst Pablo Cano Trilla weighs up the evidence for...

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