Market and legal data for the vapour sector in Slovakia

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.
23rd May 2023: Slovakia: A draft amendment to the Act on the Production, Labelling and Sale of Tobacco Products that would equate the regulation of nicotine-free e-cigarettes with that of those containing nicotine has moved to its second reading in the National Council, media reports. If adopted, it will come into force on 1st September.
25th April 2023: Slovakia: A draft amendment to the Act on the Production, Labelling and Sale of Tobacco Products that would bring the regulation of nicotine-free e-cigarettes in line with that of nicotine-containing ones has been submitted to the National Council (parliament) and should be considered at a session beginning 2nd May, media reports. If adopted, the change could come into force in September.
14th December 2022: Slovakia: The government has approved the National Action Plan for the control of tobacco and related products, seeking to improve smoking prevention among young people compliance with the law on the protection of non-smokers. The Slovak Pneumology Society has praised the plan for advocating a harm reduction approach, media reports.
12th December 2022: Slovakia: The government approved the National Action Plan for the control of tobacco and related products, media reports. With the plan, the ministry seeks to improve conditions in the field of smoking prevention among young people as well as to improve control of compliance with the law on the protection of non-smokers.

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