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New regulatory initiatives create uncertainty in Italian e-cigarette market

Written by || 17th November 2017 || Regulatory reports |

Europe
Italy
Marketing and Retailing
Policy and Politics
Regulation and Legislation
Regulatory reports
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...

Scare stories get more attention than calmly issued research findings

Written by Marc Beishon || 1st November 2017 || Regulatory reports |

Europe
North America
United Kingdom
United States
Public Health and Medicine
Regulation and Legislation
Regulatory reports
A research paper which led to the headline claim that e-cigs can trigger lung disease “just like cigarettes” was picked up by the media more eagerly than other studies which came to less alarmist conclusions ...

South Africa regulatory report: vaping in legal limbo

Written by Marija Obradovic || 23rd October 2017 || Regulatory reports |

Africa
South Africa
Policy and Politics
Regulation and Legislation
Regulatory reports
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 e-cigs in the...

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

Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata || 4th October 2017 || Regulatory reports |

Mexico
North America
Policy and Politics
Regulation and Legislation
Regulatory reports
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 Control law is...

New incoming rules will mean further restrictions in Portugal

Written by Marija Obradovic || 27th September 2017 || Regulatory reports |

Europe
Portugal
Policy and Politics
Regulation and Legislation
Regulatory reports
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 clearer if the...

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

Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata || 12th September 2017 || Regulatory reports |

EU
Europe
Regulation and Legislation
Regulatory reports
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 || Regulatory reports |

EU
Europe
Regulation and Legislation
Regulatory reports
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 a way to...

Heated tobacco and advertising in the European Union

Written by Aidan Semmens || 14th August 2017 || Regulatory reports |

EU
Europe
Heated tobacco
Regulation and Legislation
Regulatory reports
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 ...

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

Written by Pablo Cano Trilla || 7th August 2017 || Regulatory reports |

Asia
Japan
Heated tobacco
Policy and Politics
Public Health and Medicine
Regulation and Legislation
Regulatory reports
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...

Sweden’s new e-cig law transposes TPD

Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata || 21st July 2017 || Regulatory reports |

Europe
Sweden
Policy and Politics
Public Health and Medicine
Regulation and Legislation
Regulatory reports
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 products are currently...

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

Written by || 13th July 2017 || Regulatory reports |

Asia
China
Hong Kong
Regulation and Legislation
Regulatory reports
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 || Regulatory reports |

EU
Europe
Ireland
Heated tobacco
Regulation and Legislation
Regulatory reports
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 no nationwide ban...

Poland: a stringent approach to vapour products

Written by Marija Obradovic || 8th June 2017 || Regulatory reports |

EU
Europe
Poland
Regulation and Legislation
Regulatory reports
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 || Regulatory reports |

Austria
EU
Europe
Regulation and Legislation
Regulatory reports
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...

PMI rejects researchers’ claim that HnB is ‘smoke by any other name’

Written by Marc Beishon || 6th June 2017 || Regulatory reports |

Europe
North America
Switzerland
United States
Heated tobacco
Regulatory reports
PMI has responded forcefully after a Swiss research team claimed its iQOS heat-not-burn system released “the same harmful constituents of conventional cigarette smoke” and said “dancing around the definition of smoke to avoid indoor-smoking bans is...

Italy: minimum restrictions but tax on e-cigs with nicotine

Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata || 19th May 2017 || Regulatory reports |

Europe
Italy
Marketing and Retailing
Policy and Politics
Regulation and Legislation
Regulatory reports
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 contain...

France: post-TPD rules get some needed clarification

Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata || 18th May 2017 || Regulatory reports |

EU
France
Regulation and Legislation
Regulatory reports
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 || Regulatory reports |

Colombia
South America
Regulation and Legislation
Regulatory reports
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...

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