Regulatory and market intelligence for the e-cigarette sector
All of our full-length regulatory reports that cover Australasia can be found on this page. These reports provide a detailed and comprehensive overview of individual Australasian countries’ regulations and restictions in relation to e-cigs. In addition to a general outline of the regulatory landscape for the country, more specific regulations such as product restrictions or taxation are also covered.
The New Zealand parliament aims to tighten current regulations on vaping and heated tobacco, seeking to regulate e-cigarettes in a similar way to Europe. This report covers all current regulation as well as those due in the near future
In our latest look at e-cig regulations in Australia, we find that at the national level, nicotine is treated as a poison, and all nicotine-containing products for therapeutic use must be approved as “registered” medicines
So far Israel is the only country to insist on plain packaging for e-cigarettes – but it’s on the agenda elsewhere, such as the Netherlands, where the scheme is backed by the minister charged with rewriting public health rules
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
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
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 regulations.
Though states and territories get to make their own rules, vaping products containing nicotine are effectively outlawed across Australia – and life isn’t much easier for sellers and users of non-nictotine e-cigs.
As the tobacco industry braces itself for a global epidemic of plain-packaging legislation, there have been calls for the controversial measure to be applied to e-cigarettes too.
What the FCTC is • A global treaty • Broad scope of regulation • The regulatory framework • The FCTC in practice • No enforcement powers • Enforcement by signatories • Self-reporting • Shadow reporting • Influence on European legislation • Promoting tobacco regulation in the developing world • What does the FCTC mean for e-cigarettes • Current status of e-cigs • Political will to regulate • Structural barriers • Non-binding, but influential • Exclusion of e-cig firms • Regulatory options in detail
What the WHO FCTC is • The WHO FCTC in practice • What does the WHO FCTC mean for e-cigarettes?
E-cigarette regulation: lessons from another industry • Regulatory issues compared • Online gambling regulatory models • Lessons for the e-cigarette sector
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