Market and regulatory data for the vapour sector in Malta

6th November 2024: Malta: The Ministry of Finance has presented a bill on the Budget Measures for the Financial Year 2025 to the parliament, introducing an excise duty for e-cigarettes. If adopted, starting 1st January 2025, an excise duty tax would apply to both nicotine-containing and nicotine-free e-cigarettes and refill containers at a rate of €0.13 per ml.
6th November 2024: Malta: The Ministry for Health has issued an alert through the European Safety Gate (the EU rapid alert system for dangerous non-food products) on a disposable e-cigarette product (AUPO 2000 Puffs) for not complying with the requirements of the EU Tobacco Products Directive (TPD). According to the ministry, the product contains an excessive amount of nicotine – amounting to 16 mg/ml with a volume of 5 ml – and its packaging is misleading, as it does not contain information about nicotine concentration, dosage, and nicotine content. In response, the ministry banned marketing and sales of the product and recalled it from the market.
18th September 2024: Malta: The Ministry of Health has updated the list of notified e-cigarettes and refill containers.
16th July 2024: Malta: The Ministry of Health has updated the list of electronic cigarettes and refill containers.
27th June 2024: Malta: The Ministry for Health and Active Ageing has published its Policy Framework for the Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Disease for public consultation. It includes policy recommendations aimed at enacting restrictive measures for novel tobacco products, through increasing taxation on novel nicotine products and electronic non-nicotine delivery systems, and strengthening the current tobacco control legislation to fully align with the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC).
24th May 2024: Malta: The Ministry of Health has updated the list of notified e-cigarettes and refill containers.
20th February 2024: Malta: According to minister of health Jo Etienne Abela, the first "specific" tobacco control strategy is being developed. The strategy will include measures that aim to reduce the affordability and availability of tobacco products, minimise tobacco advertising and discourage the illicit trade of tobacco products, media reports.
27th November 2023: Malta: A group of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and associations have welcomed the news that the government is considering stopping smoking for future generations (a recent public consultation on a Children’s Policy Framework) but have called for additional actions, media reports. They have also called on the government to stop the cultivation and smoking of cannabis in private residences (to protect children who live with parents who smoke or cultivate cannabis at home), as well as the sale of e-cigarettes from stationery shops (accessed by children).
24th November 2023: Malta: The Ministry for Social Policy and Children’s Rights has issued a Children’s Policy Framework public consultation document proposing a discussion on a generational ban on cigarette sales, media reports. There are no other measures proposed regarding nicotine products.
9th October 2023: Malta: Amendments to the Manufacture, Presentation and Sale of Tobacco and Related Products Regulations were published in the Official Gazette last week. The amendments include additional requirements for the health warning that nicotine-containing vaping products must contain, and extend the rules on cross-border distance sales to nicotine-free e-cigarettes and e-liquids.

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