South Africa regulatory report: vaping in legal limbo

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

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South Africa

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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...

Belgium regulatory report: a year after TPD, are further restrictions in the pipeline?

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

Belgium

Europe

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Regulatory reports

Transposition of the TPD into Belgian law has been force since January 2017. The restrictions it imposes include a ban on online sales as well as product, packaging, labelling and advertising restrictions ...

Germany regulatory report: more restrictions possible on advertising and zero-nicotine

Written by Paula Cazes || 17th October 2017 || Regulatory reports |

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ECigIntelligence’s updated review of Germany’s e-cigarette laws and regulations includes details of likely future tightening of...

Going hybrid: a route to regulatory benefits for Europe’s e-cig manufacturers?

Written by || 16th October 2017 || Regulatory reports |

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Europe

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Regulatory reports

EU legislation is unclear on how to categorise hybrid devices, which may give manufacturers some degree of choice. This report aims to help them make that choice wisely ...

New licensing requirements in the Big Apple: New York City regulatory report

Written by || 11th October 2017 || Regulatory reports |

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North America

United States

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Regulatory reports

New ordinances in New York City place a cap on the number of e-cigarette retailers in each district of the city – and licences will only be granted to those who were already in business in August 2017...

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 |

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Portugal

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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...

Chicago adds detail and taxation to Illinois’s light state regulation

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

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While Illinois has a relatively liberal approach to e-cigarettes, Chicago has a more restrictive regime and two layers of taxation – city and...

PMTA and MRTP: navigating the path to FDA approval for reduced-risk products

Written by || 14th September 2017 || Regulatory reports |

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United States

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Regulatory reports

As PMI’s iQOS comes under consideration by the US FDA, we examine the hurdles it – and other – heated tobacco and e-cigarette products will have to clear to obtain authorisation for commercialisation and reduced-risk claims. ...

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 ...

Russia: little regulation of e-cigs or HnB for now – but the heat is on

Written by Marija Obradovic || 11th September 2017 || Regulatory reports |

Europe

Russia

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory reports

At present there is comparatively little regulation in Russia covering either heated tobacco or e-cigarettes. This may change, however ...

Czech Republic: e-cigarettes under a post-TPD regime

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

Czech Republic

EU

Europe

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory reports

Our latest look at the legal status of e-cigarettes in the Czech Republic details the country’s approach to the European TPD requirements ...

Heated tobacco taxation in Europe – how it stands and what may emerge

Written by Pablo Cano Trilla || 6th September 2017 || Regulatory reports |

EU

Europe

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory reports

HnB products benefit from a more benign tax regime than traditional cigarettes, but with no broadly agreed classification, the picture across Europe remains for now inconsistent and...

Shake and vape: the legal implications in the EU

Written by Marija Obradovic || 24th August 2017 || Regulatory reports |

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Europe

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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 || 14th August 2017 || Regulatory reports |

EU

Europe

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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 ...

Cyprus: strict on ads and public vaping, but lenient in other respects

Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata || 14th August 2017 || Regulatory reports |

Cyprus

EU

Europe

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory reports

ECigIntelligence’s up-to-date round-up of the law and regulations surrounding e-cigarettes on the most highly populated island in the Mediterranean ...

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

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

Asia

Japan

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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...

Canada: national law set to clear up a confusing picture

Written by || 28th July 2017 || Regulatory reports |

Canada

North America

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory reports

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 ...

How Slovenia is adapting to the early stages of TPD regulation

Written by Marija Obradovic || 24th July 2017 || Regulatory reports |

EU

Europe

Slovenia

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory reports

New regulation in Slovenia – one of the last European countries to transpose the TPD into law – applies to all types of e-cigarettes, with or without nicotine ...

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...

Small packet label exemptions: a guide to European CLP regulation, part 3

Written by || 6th July 2017 || Regulatory reports |

EU

Europe

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory reports

Our third guide to EU regulation on the classification, labelling and packaging of substances looks at possible exemptions for small packages – what is required by law and what may not...

Poland’s excise tax proposal will hit independent e-liquid producers hardest

Written by Marija Obradovic || 5th July 2017 || Regulatory reports |

EU

Europe

Poland

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory reports

Poland’s finance ministry is proposing an excise tax on all e-liquids that will raise the cost of vaping in the country and impose extra difficulties on independent...

Spain: regulation now in force, and what further restrictions lie ahead

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

EU

Europe

Spain

Policy and Politics

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory reports

Spain was among the last European Union member states to transpose the TPD into national law, adopting it through royal decree only in June 2017 – and there are almost certainly further restrictions on e-cigarettes to...

Netherlands: early applier of TPD brings non-nicotine e-cigs into line

Written by Marija Obradovic || 21st June 2017 || Regulatory reports |

EU

Europe

Netherlands

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory reports

The first country to transpose the TPD has now updated its rules to bring non-nicotine e-cigs into line with nicotine products, as our comprehensive regulatory report...

Florida: e-cigarette regulation is focused on protecting under-18s

Written by || 14th June 2017 || Regulatory reports |

Florida

North America

United States

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory reports

E-cigarette regulation in Florida is minimal, focused entirely on preventing minors from gaining access to vaping...

Ireland: how TPD regulations apply in the Emerald Isle

Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata || 14th June 2017 || Regulatory reports |

EU

Europe

Ireland

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...

Distance sales banned in Latvia as TPD is transposed

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

Europe

Latvia

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory reports

ECigIntelligence examines the post-TPD state of e-cigarette regulation in Latvia, including the distance sales ban, taxation, registration, and retailer...

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...

German U-turn excludes menthol from list of banned ingredients

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 7th June 2017 || Regulatory reports |

EU

Europe

Germany

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory reports

Menthol flavouring for e-cigarettes is to be allowed in Germany after all following a decision by the Federal Council that it should be removed from the list of banned...

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

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...

Pennsylvania: 40% Other Tobacco Products tax and licensing

Written by || 1st June 2017 || Regulatory reports |

North America

Pennsylvania

United States

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory reports

All state e-cigarette regulation in Pennsylvania relates to taxation – a 40% tax on e-cigarettes to be collected by wholesalers or...

How far can – and will – Trump and Gottlieb go in easing regulation?

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp || 23rd May 2017 || Regulatory reports |

North America

United States

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory reports

While the election of Donald Trump was greeted as a cause for some optimism in the US e-cigarette industry, hopes for the easing of regulation at the federal level lie not so much with the White House as...

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...

One year on: the picture is clearer as TPD reaches its anniversary

Written by David Palacios Rubio || 18th May 2017 || Regulatory reports |

EU

Europe

United Kingdom

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory reports

How far has Europe’s Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) succeeded in its goal of harmonising the e-cig market across the EU? For many, the jury is still...

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...

Hardware notification in Denmark: questions answered

Written by Marija Obradovic || 12th May 2017 || Regulatory reports |

Denmark

Europe

Policy and Politics

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory reports

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 hardware notification are...

Russia: strict regulation appears to be on the way

Written by Marija Obradovic || 11th May 2017 || Regulatory reports |

Europe

Russia

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory reports

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...

Toxicity and notification: a guide to European CLP regulation, part 2

Written by Aidan Semmens || 8th May 2017 || Regulatory reports |

EU

Europe

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory reports

In Europe, chemical substances must be classified according to their toxicity levels, and depending on the classification some obligations arise, as detailed...

Brain scans compare e-cig use with addictive effects of smoking

Written by Marc Beishon || 8th May 2017 || Regulatory reports |

North America

United States

Public Health and Medicine

Regulatory reports

Do nicotine e-cigarettes have a similar effect on the brain to combustibles? Researchers have been using PET scans to try to find...

New York state regulation: tough times ahead for e-cigs

Written by || 6th May 2017 || Regulatory reports |

New York

North America

United States

Marketing and Retailing

Policy and Politics

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory reports

ECigIntelligence explores e-cigarette regulation in the state of New York, which is showing signs of taking a hard line toward vaping despite little existing...

Deeming and beyond 2017: exclusive download

Written by ECigIntelligence || 2nd May 2017 || Regulatory reports |

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Online tutorial: EU packaging regulation and UK interpretations

Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata || 28th April 2017 || E-learning , Regulatory reports |

EU

Europe

United Kingdom

Marketing and Retailing

Regulation and Legislation

E-learning

Regulatory reports

There are strict laws around the labelling and packaging of e-cigarette products in Europe. But the EU legislation concerning this has been interpreted and imposed in different ways across different member states. These variations can make producing legally...

Croatia: law change ‘threatens jobs and cessation efforts’

Written by ECigIntelligence || 20th April 2017 || Regulatory reports |

Croatia

Europe

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory reports

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 || Regulatory reports |

Europe

Finland

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory reports

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

Substantial equivalence: the market approval process in detail

Written by || 19th April 2017 || Regulatory reports |

North America

United States

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory reports

This report examines the current ways the e-cigarette industry in the U.S. has to get premarket approval from the FDA for new products, including detailed definitions of what constitutes a new...

New Zealand research adds weight to the relative harm argument

Written by ECigIntelligence || 19th April 2017 || Regulatory reports |

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New Zealand

United Kingdom

Public Health and Medicine

Regulatory reports

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 the making of...

Estonia: online ban, taxes on the way

Written by ECigIntelligence || 18th April 2017 || Regulatory reports |

Estonia

Europe

Regulation and Legislation

Regulatory reports

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, but that is...