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Czech Republic regulatory report

Written by Lenka Hajnovicova | 19th December 2018

This regulatory report on the Czech Republic includes updates on the regulatory landscape, product restrictions, labelling and packaging, obligation to notify, public usage, taxation, and enforcement ...

A world of regulation: where the bans are on harm reduction products

Written by Pablo Cano Trilla | 17th December 2018

ECigIntelligence presents its comprehensive analysis of which countries have banned the three most popular harm reduction products: nicotine-containing vapour products; heated tobacco; and oral tobacco ...

Luxembourg regulatory report

Written by ECigIntelligence | 12th December 2018

This report on e-cig regulation in Luxembourg contains updates on age and product restrictions, labelling and packaging, obligation to notify, retail channel restrictions, future public usage, and enforcement ...

Romania regulatory report

Written by Lenka Hajnovicova | 6th December 2018

This December 2018 report on e-cig regulation in Romania includes updates on product restrictions, packaging, notification, taxation and enforcement ...

Lithuania regulatory report

Written by Marija Obradovic | 26th November 2018

This report on e-cig regulation in Lithuania contains updates on age and product restrictions, obligation to notify, public usage, advertising and marketing, taxation, enforcement, and bills currently under debate ...

Israel regulatory report

Written by ECigIntelligence | 22nd November 2018

With an amendment to tobacco law under debate by the Knesset, this report on e-cigarette and heated tobacco regulation in Israel includes updated information in every section ...

Government advice to ban e-cigarettes is not binding on India’s states

Written by ECigIntelligence | 16th November 2018

A pronouncement earlier this year by the Indian government that individual states should ban vapour products appears to have encouraged action in several – but the Delhi High Court has confirmed that the advisory is...

Texas regulatory report

Written by Lenka Hajnovicova | 15th November 2018

Our latest report on e-cig regulation in Texas has updates on age restrictions, notification, retail channels, public usage, advertising and marketing, relevant laws and relevant bodies ...

Vaping laws expanded: Germany regulatory report

Written by Berta Camps Bisbal | 30th October 2018

In our latest look at the regulatory landscape in Germany, we find a bill amending the German Tobacco Products Law is being considered which could prohibit all outdoor advertising, while a bill that would have...

State likely to control heated tobacco: China regulatory report

Written by ECigIntelligence | 23rd October 2018

In our latest look at Chinese regulations, we find no foreign company has been permitted to sell heated tobacco devices and state-owned companies could, in theory, engage in the production of such products ...

Shake and vape facing new rules: Greece regulatory report

Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata | 9th October 2018

In our latest look at regulations in Greece, we find that there are planned regulations for DIY and shake and vape products and only TPD-compliant, nicotine-containing products notified to the Ministry of Health may be...

PMI and Juul launch legal action against Chinese copyists

Written by ECigIntelligence | 9th October 2018

The two leading brands in the vaping and heated tobacco sectors, Juul and Philip Morris International (PMI), are both engaged in active fights with Chinese companies over their intellectual property rights ...

Japan regulatory report: e-cigarettes and heated tobacco

Written by Marija Obradovic | 8th October 2018

This updated report on regulation of e-cigs and heated tobacco in Japan includes new tax rates and new restrictions on public use of heated tobacco, plus details of required warning posters and sanctions ...

Latin America regulatory report: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Panama, Uruguay

Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata | 5th September 2018

In this far-reaching report, ECigIntelligence looks at the varied legal approaches to e-cigs and vaping across Latin America, focussing on Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Panama, Colombia, Chile and...

Second highest notification fees in Europe: Denmark regulatory report

Written by Marija Obradovic | 3rd September 2018

In our latest look at Denmark, we find that the country has the second highest notification fee in the EU, which amounts to about €4950 ($5771). The Danish Health Authority dismisses scientific evidence that e-cigarettes...

No federal law, but states are urged to ban e-cigs: India regulatory report

Written by Marija Obradovic | 3rd September 2018

Central government in India, the world’s second largest country by population, does not regulate e-cigarettes specifically – but has advised its constituent states to ban vaping products ...

India: central government asks states to ban e-cigs and heated tobacco

Written by Marija Obradovic | 28th August 2018

India’s Ministry of Health, Family and Welfare has issued an advisory to all states to ban e-cigarettes and heated tobacco ...

E-cigs may suffer as pharmaceutical products: Taiwan regulatory report

Written by ECigIntelligence | 17th August 2018

This report focuses on both the current legal frameworks and ongoing legislative amendment that applies to e-cigarettes in...

Sweden clamps down on high-nicotine e-liquids

Written by ECigIntelligence | 6th August 2018

Swedish regulation is asking producers and consumers to obtain a permit for the sale and use of e-liquid with high concentrations of nicotine, which constitutes a de facto ban as the process of obtaining such...

E-cig rules in the EU’s smallest state: Malta regulatory report

Written by ECigIntelligence | 25th July 2018

ECigIntelligence provides up-to-date details of e-cigarette regulations in Malta, where the EU Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) was tranposed into domestic law in 2016 ...

China regulatory report: new national standard coming soon

Written by ECigIntelligence | 19th July 2018

Our report on Chinese e-cigarette regulation reviews the current regulatory landscape in the country, the forthcoming national standards, and the possible impact of tobacco-style regulation on vapour products ...

New taxation, old uncertainties: Sweden regulatory report

Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata | 12th July 2018

Nicotine-containing e-liquids became subject to a new tax in Sweden in July 2018, a year after the country’s regulations on e-cigarettes came into force with the transposition into national law of the EU Tobacco Products...

New Zealand working on regulation for newly legal nicotine e-cigs

Written by Marija Obradovic | 11th July 2018

The New Zealand government is working on creating a regulatory framework for nicotine-containing e-cigarettes, expected to be more flexible than the regime in place in Europe ...

Heated tobacco taxation in the EU: classification, rates and structures: 2018

Written by Pablo Cano Trilla | 4th July 2018

Heated tobacco products generally benefit from a more benign tax regime in Europe than vapour products. Our report examines tax laws in EU countries where HnB products have been launched ...

Licence applications and the district cap: New York City regulatory update

Written by Berta Camps Bisbal | 27th June 2018

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...

Tough new warnings for e-cigs coming soon: South Korea regulatory report

Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata | 26th June 2018

Our updated report on e-cig regulation in South Korea details the tough new warnings with graphic images which will be required on packets of nicotine-containing e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products ...

New York State getting tougher on vaping: regulatory update

Written by Berta Camps Bisbal | 21st June 2018

New York, formerly one of the less restrictive states for e-cigs, now has a widespread ban on indoor vaping, no e-cigs allowed in schools, and a number of other measures in the offing ...

China takes on another great project – e-cig regulation by October 2019

Written by ECigIntelligence | 20th June 2018

China has for the first time published advanced notice of its forthcoming legal standards for e-cigarettes – in US or European terms, regulation – due for release by October 2019 ...

New rules step beyond the TPD: Netherlands regulatory report

Written by ECigIntelligence | 18th June 2018

In our latest look at the Dutch regulations, we find that The Netherlands recently decided to go beyond the TPD, regulating nicotine-free e-cigs fully in the same way as nicotine containing ones ...

CBD vaping in France: making sense of a legal grey area

Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata | 13th June 2018

The use of cannabidiol (CBD) in e-liquids is not specifically regulated in France, and in a grey area as no law or competent authority has officially confirmed the legality of its use in an e-cigarette...

No tax proposed as yet: Slovakia regulatory report

Written by Marija Obradovic | 13th June 2018

In our latest look at the regulatory picture in Slovakia we see that e-cigarettes are not covered by any excise tax, e-cigs with and without nicotine have mild retail restrictions and notification is free of...

Kazakhstan’s vapour industry braced for taxes to rise above zero

Written by Pablo Cano Trilla | 6th June 2018

E-cigarette companies in Kazakhstan – where e-cigs and heated tobacco products are currently zero-rated for tax – can expect to have to pay tax by 2020, according to the country’s health ministry ...

Light on enforcement and notifications are free: Bulgaria regulatory report

Written by Marija Obradovic | 1st June 2018

In our latest look at Bulgaria, we find that distance sales are banned, notification is free-of-charge, non-nicotine products are regulated as a consumer products and there is no taxation of e-cigarettes ...

Tax cut due along with more laws: California regulatory report

Written by ECigIntelligence | 31st May 2018

In our latest look at California's regulations, we find that the wholesale tax is set to be adjusted in July and vaping is treated as tobacco in regards to public usage ...

German controversy highlights TPD notification requirements

Written by ECigIntelligence | 29th May 2018

A legal controversy between two of Germany’s major e-cig importers and retailers over the notification requirements of the German version of the TPD could help to clear up a partly unresolved question about the regulation...

Shake and vape still a grey area: Poland regulatory report

Written by Marija Obradovic | 29th May 2018

In our latest look at Poland we find that a tax on all e-liquids will apply as of January 2019, distance sales are prohibited and new, slightly higher, notification fees now apply ...

CBD in Germany – the legal status of a new kind of e-liquid

Written by ECigIntelligence | 29th May 2018

While no German or EU law currently regulates CBD-infused e-liquids directly, and CBD is not in itself illegal, companies wishing to market CBD for vaping have plenty of legal issues to consider ...

Spain: regulatory report on ‘devices capable of releasing nicotine’

Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata | 23rd May 2018

Spain transposed the EU TPD into national law in 2017. Law 28/2005 in its consolidated version now regulates all aspects of the use, sale and promotion of nicotine-containing e-cigarettes ...

CBD in the UK: regulatory framework for cannabidiol and related products

Written by Pablo Cano Trilla | 21st May 2018

ECigIntelligence guides you through the sometimes uncertain legal framework that applies in the UK to cannabidiol (CBD) in general, and CBD-containing e-liquids in particular ...

Rules are strictly enforced: Austria regulatory report

Written by ECigIntelligence | 9th May 2018

In our latest look at the regulations in Austria, we see that Austrian legislation regulates both nicotine-free and nicotine-containing products, going further than the TPD ...

CBD as an ingredient in e-liquids: EU regulatory report

Written by Pablo Cano Trilla | 9th May 2018

What laws regulate the use of cannabidiol (CBD) in e-liquids across the European Union – and what regulatory regime is likely to apply in the future? Our report finds the clear lines in a legal...

Mostly legal: global conventions on CBD, the harmless cannabis extract

Written by Pablo Cano Trilla | 7th May 2018

Cannabidiol (CBD) is one of many cannabinoids that can be found in cannabis. While the cannabis plant itself, and many drugs that are extracted from it, are illegal in most parts of the world, CBD,...

FDA guides on product labelling: US regulatory report

Written by ECigIntelligence | 2nd May 2018

In this latest report on American regulations, ECigIntelligence highlights the fact that all electronic vaping devices will have to comply with FDA label requirements from August 2018 ...

Relabelling and repackaging options could ease legal burden for US manufacturers

Written by Aidan Semmens | 24th April 2018

There could be some relief for manufacturers of “tobacco related” products for the US market who have been restricted by the complicated legal process of obtaining authorisation from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)...

Hungary regulatory report: tough rules but weakening enforcement

Written by Marija Obradovic | 23rd April 2018

The regulation of vaping products in Hungary is substantially derived from the European TPD, but remains the most severe in the EU – although enforcement of many of the rules does appear to be slackening...

Focus is on minors: Atlanta and Georgia regulatory report

Written by ECigIntelligence | 19th April 2018

ECigIntelligence looks at regulation in Georgia and Atlanta and finds it is and mainly focused on preventing minors from accessing the products ...

Korean web of taxes brings HnB price in line with combustible cigarettes

Written by ECigIntelligence | 3rd April 2018

Regulators in South Korea have enacted new taxes on heat-not-burn (HnB) tobacco products, apparently building on previous government moves to bring prices closer in line with those of conventional cigarettes ...

Age limit up, flavour ban on the table: New Jersey regulatory report

Written by Berta Camps Bisbal | 28th March 2018

State regulation of vaping products in New Jersey is explained, including the recently raised age limit of 21 and proposals to ban flavours, to establish licensing for the sale of e-cigarettes, and to extend limits...

Change afoot in Russia as Moscow puts forward plan for national regulation

Written by David Palacios Rubio | 22nd March 2018

E-cigarettes and heated tobacco are currently subject to very little regulation in Russia – but that could be about to change, with proposals coming from both the federal trade ministry and the Moscow City Duma...

The medical route to market approval in the UK – the pros and cons

Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata | 21st March 2018

The MHRA, Britain’s pharmaceutical regulator, is currently encouraging and supporting companies to submit medicines authorisation applications for e-cigarette products. Here we explain what that process entails ...

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