E-cigarettes in Iceland

Iceland: An amendment to Regulation 992/2022 on marketing notification, licensing and ingredients of nicotine products, e-cigarettes and refills containing nicotine has been published in the Official Gazette, lowering the fee for licence applications to sell vaping products from ISK72,864 (€482) to ISK27,224 (€180).

Iceland: The Ministry of Health has told ECigIntelligence that, for the time being, it does not plan to issue a regulation restricting the marketing of flavoured vaping products. Plans for a flavour ban were quashed when the Parliamentary Welfare Committee deleted the provision on flavours, proposed by the Ministry of Health in the first draft of a recently-enacted bill amending Act 87/2018 on E-cigarettes, Refills and Nicotine Products.

Iceland: A bill amending Law 87/2018 on electronic cigarettes and refills has today come into force. It makes the sale of vaping products subject to licensing by the Housing and Civil Engineering Institute and explicitly prohibits the advertising of e-cigarettes on social media.

Iceland: A bill amending Law 87/2018 on e-cigarettes and refills, which we have reported on, has been approved at its first reading in the Althingi (parliament). In addition to banning “flavours that may appeal to children, such as sweet and fruit flavours”, the bill includes a mandatory licence to sell vaping products, issued by the Housing and Civil Engineering Institute, and a ban on vaping on education premises. The bill now moves on to the Welfare Committee, which could propose amendments.