Market and legal data for the vapour sector in Slovakia

11th November 2024: Slovakia: A draft amendment to the Act on the Production, Labelling and Sale of Tobacco Products has been proposed by the Smer-SD, the main governing party, that seeks to ban flavoured (except for menthol, mint, and tobacco flavours) nicotine products and disposable e-cigarettes, media reports.
23rd September 2024: Slovakia: President Peter Pellegrini has signed the draft amendment to the Act on Excise Tax on Tobacco Products, media reports. Reportedly, the amendment aims to tax e-liquids and nicotine pouches, starting from 1st February 2025, at a rate of €0.2 per ml for e-liquids, and €0.1 per g for nicotine pouches. In 2027, the taxes will increase to €0.3 per ml for e-liquids, and €0.2 per g for nicotine pouches. For heated tobacco, there is no plan to increase the smokeless tax rate in 2025, but from February 2026 it will be increased to €238.1 per kg and again in 2028 to €264.8.
12th September 2024: Slovakia: Yesterday (11th September), the National Council (parliament) adopted the draft amendment to the Act on Excise Tax on Tobacco Products, media reports. Reportedly, the amendment aims to tax e-liquids and nicotine pouches, starting from 1st February 2025, at a rate of €0.2 per ml for e-liquids and €0.1 per g for nicotine pouches. In 2027, the taxes will increase to €0.3 per ml for e-liquids and €0.2 per g for nicotine pouches.
19th June 2024: Slovakia: The National Council (Parliament) has moved the draft amendment to the Act on Excise Tax on Tobacco Products to the second reading, media reports. The amendment aims to tax e-liquids and nicotine pouches, starting next year, at a rate of €0.2 per ml for e-liquids, and €0.1 per g for nicotine pouches. The tax would gradually increase in the following years.
23rd May 2024: Slovakia: The government has approved the draft amendment to the Act on Excise Tax on Tobacco Products seeking to tax e-liquids and nicotine pouches starting next year, media reports. E-liquids are to be taxed at a rate of €0.2 per ml, and nicotine pouches at €0.1 per g. The tax is to be gradually increased in the following years. We understand that the draft amendment should next go to the parliament.
19th April 2024: Slovakia: The Ministry of Finance has submitted a draft amendment to the Act on Excise Tax on Tobacco Products to the interdepartmental comment procedure, media reports. The amendment seeks to tax e-liquids and nicotine pouches starting next year. The tax would gradually increase in the following years.
9th April 2024: Slovakia: The government will seek to consolidate public finances next year, media reports. This would include a tobacco tax increase as well as the introduction of e-cig and nicotine pouch taxation in 2025. These measures would need to be approved by the parliament.
20th November 2023: Slovakia: Ján Richter, chairman of the parliamentary club of the Smer-SD, the biggest ruling party, has said that the government plans to increase taxes on tobacco and alcohol from the beginning of next year, press reports. The adoption of tax amendments is expected in December of this year. It is not yet clear if this policy will include the introduction of excise taxation for vaping products.
16th November 2023: Slovakia: According to a check by the Slovak Trade Inspection, one out of three under-age consumers can buy tobacco products, including e-cigarettes and heated tobacco, without any problems, media reports. Out of more than 600 purchases in bricks-and-mortar outlets, such products were sold to under-18s in 224 cases. In addition, online outlets were reportedly checked, and a fifth of them did not use a functional age-verification system.
14th November 2023: Slovakia: The new government has announced in the financial policy section of its programme statement that it plans to adjust the state taxation policy – including increasing excise tax on tobacco products – media reports. It is not yet clear if this policy would include the introduction of excise tax on vaping products.
10th November 2023: Slovakia: The Slovak Office of Public Health confirmed to ECigIntelligence that the draft amendment to the Act on the Production, Labelling and Sale of Tobacco Products, which would have equated the regulation of nicotine-free e-cigarettes with nicotine-containing ones, did not reach its final conclusion and was not approved. Currently, no other regulation regarding the expansion of the term “e-cigarette” is planned in the near future.
8th August 2023: Hungary: The Hungarian Competition Authority has fined a Slovakian company around HUF39m (€100,000) for illegal advertising of e-cigarettes to consumers in Hungary, media reports.

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