Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata | 12th September 2017
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...
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...
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...
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...
Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata | 14th August 2017
ECigIntelligence’s up-to-date round-up of the law and regulations surrounding e-cigarettes on the most highly populated island in the Mediterranean ...
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 ...
Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata | 21st July 2017
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...
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 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 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...
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...
Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata | 14th June 2017
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...
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...
ECigIntelligence examines the post-TPD state of e-cigarette regulation in Latvia, including the distance sales ban, taxation, registration, and retailer...
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 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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
In Europe, chemical substances must be classified according to their toxicity levels, and depending on the classification some obligations arise, as detailed...
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...
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...
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,...
Our guide to Lithuania’s amended Tobacco law, which came into force on 20th May 2016, transposing the European TPD and imposing various legal restrictions on vaping...
As the UK embarks on its contentious exit from the European Union, what are the prevailing attitudes to vaping in Britain, and how is e-cig policy likely to develop there? We report on the...
In this March 2017 report, we see that Romania has transposed the Tobacco Products Directive (TPD). There is a tax on some e-cigarette products, but vaping is still allowed in most public...
BAT has come up with a model for assessing the impact of tobacco- and nicotine-related “next generation products” at the population leve to give regulators more evidence about the long-term health effects relative to trends...
Manufacturers or suppliers of e-liquids in Europe must determine the toxicity of individual ingredients in their products and label and classify all products accordingly. Here we guide you through the detail of the CLP regulation...
Who are the authorities responsible for enforcing the rules on e-cigarettes in Denmark? We look at the work of Denmark’s Safety Technology Agency and the Danish Consumer...
Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata | 15th March 2017
In this March 2017 report on the UK market, we find that there is currently no national legal restriction on the public usage of e-cigarettes in the United Kingdom. Variations in interpretation of the TPD...
Hungary has finally opened its market for sale of nicotine e-cigarettes by adopting changes to its national tobacco laws and aligning them with TPD standards. Nevertheless, Hungarian regulation remains among the most severe in Europe....
A study claiming to have added to evidence that vaping can be "a one-way bridge to smoking" by young people has been subjected to critical analysis – and found to be seriously...
Written by David Palacios Rubio | 27th February 2017
Europe’s e-cigarette manufacturers and importers had submitted more than 70,000 individual products to the European Union Common Entry Gate (EU-CEG) by the end of 2016 – and that number is expected to have rapidly...
Is regulation always a bad thing for the vapour industry? In a report based on a presentation given to industry experts in Washington, ECigIntelligence's international legal analyst Pablo Cano Trilla weighs up the evidence for...
ECigIntelligence reports on the Danish approach to regulating e-cigarettes in the wake of Europe's TPD, and finds it more detailed and transparent than...
Portugal's 2016 Tobacco Law fully transposed the TPD. A further bill is expected later this year which seeks to ban vaping within five metres of windows or an entrance to health institutions and pharmacies, places...
The future of e-cigarette regulation in Germany is becoming clearer since the transposition of the European Tobacco Products Directive (TPD), but the country's separate states still have some autonomy is setting the...
Written by Elba Manzanilla Zapata | 6th December 2016
The new Belgian law, transposing the TPD, comes into force in January 2017. It will end the classification of e-cigarettes as medical devices and impose severe restrictions, including an online sales ban as well as...
Countries such as the UK, Spain, Italy and Poland have adopted a 2 ml limit on the capacity of refillable e-liquid tanks – but France and Germany have...
In this report, ECigIntelligence looks at the current regulatory landscape in Slovakia, where provisions for regulating e-cigarettes are largely in line with the European Union’s Tobacco Products Directive (TPD), which categorises e-cigs as tobacco-related...
Bulgaria has taken a gentle approach to adopting Europe's TPD regulations. E-cigarettes are regarded as "tobacco-related" rather than tobacco products as such, and are treated more benignly than tobacco, with public usage...
E-cigarette products containing nicotine cannot be sold in Turkey without a pharmaceutical licence from the Ministry of Health - and so far no such licence has been...
We strongly expect nicotine-containing e-cigarettes to be legalised in Norway, where their sale has been banned until now. The anticipated move will come as a boost to the Norwegian vaping market, which has already grown...