Market & regulatory data for the vapour sector in Europe

24th March 2023: Latvia: The bill to ban e-cigarette flavours and prohibit the sale of all e-cigs, with or without nicotine, to under-20s has been approved at its second reading at the Saeima (parliament). It must now be approved at one more reading.
24th March 2023: Russia: Yesterday in the State Duma (lower house), prime minister Mikhail Mishustin said that the government is considering banning e-cigarettes. No proposals have been submitted yet, but the house chairman, Vyacheslav Volodin, asked the executive to consider it.
24th March 2023: UK: Kevin Hollinrake, junior secretary for business and trade, said that the Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) has discussed Elf Bar e-cigarettes with Trading Standards as part of ongoing discussions about the compliance of vape devices with product safety regulations. "There is also ongoing work by Trading Standards and the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) to continue to raise awareness of non-compliant devices and, where appropriate, take enforcement action including withdrawing them from the point of sale," added Hollinrake.
24th March 2023: UK: Junior health secretary Neil O'Brien has said that there is currently no evidence that young people move from using vapes to tobacco products, including cigarettes.
24th March 2023: EU: The EU Commission proposal for the Green Claims Directive requires companies to substantiate claims about environmental footprint with the standard quantifying methods. The current version of the Tobacco Products Directive (TPD 2) already prohibits e-cigarette packaging from suggesting improved biodegradability or other environmental advantages, but it does not prohibit this in advertising. Feedback about the proposal can be sent until 19th May 2023.
23rd March 2023: UK: Though there are no immediate plans for a ban, the government is concerned by the increasing use of disposable vaping products, particularly by children, and their impact on the environment when they are thrown away, junior health minister Neil O’Brien said in reply to a parliamentary question. He said “a range of measures to address these issues” was being explored.
21st March 2023: UK: The government will unveil a set of proposals in the coming weeks aimed at realising the goal of a “Smokefree 2030” and responding to the recommendations in the Khan Review, according to junior health minister Neil O’Brien.
21st March 2023: Belgium: The Federal Public Service for Health, Food Chain Safety and the Environment has updated the lists of positive and negative e-cigarette product notifications.
21st March 2023: UK: Lancashire Police and Trading Standards officers last week seized 1,024 counterfeit e-cigarettes and tobacco products in the town of Preston. Together they would have been worth around £7,000 if genuine.
21st March 2023: Italy: The Council of Ministers has adopted a bill to delegate a tax reform to the government. Among other things, it aims to review the administrative procedures for the sales network for tobacco products, e-cigarettes and nicotine pouches. The bill should come before Parliament in May.
20th March 2023: Bulgaria: The Ministry of Finance has presented a draft Law on Amendments and Supplements to the Tax-Insurance Procedural Code, which introduces a tax for non-nicotine e-cigarettes and increases the tax for nicotine-containing ones. If approved, both products will be taxed at BGN0.30 (€0.15) per ml from 1st July 2023, BGN0.35 (€0.18) per ml from 1st January 2024, BGN0.40 (€0.20) per ml from 1st January 2025 and BGN0.45 (€0.23) per ml from 1st January 2026. The draft is open for public consultation until 16th April, when it will then be sent to the National Assembly.

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