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Germany: Customs has made its largest seizure of untaxed and unstamped e-cigarettes, which included 64 pallets of e-cigs worth around €700,000. The authority
Germany: The Federal Statistical Office has reported that 1.2m l of e-liquids were taxed in 2023. The volume of e-liquids sold in the second half
Germany: As of 1st January 2024, outdoor advertising of e-cigarette and refill containers is banned, with the exception of advertising on the external
Germany: As of 1st January 2024, e-liquid tax has increased to €0.20 per ml.
Global: Several EU and international markets will see a rise in vapour taxes on 1st January 2024, including Germany, Indonesia, Russia and Estonia.
Germany: The Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) has updated the list of notified e-cigarette products. Only products notified at least six months
Germany: A product alert has been issued through the EU Safety Gate system for a nicotine-free e-cigarette cartridge containing cannabidiol, hexahydrocannabinol (HHC) and,
Germany: The Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) has updated the list of notified e-cigarette products, which now contains 342,074 vapour products. Only
Germany: The amendment to the Federal Non-Smoking Protection Act that explicitly forbids the use of e-cigarettes in enclosed vehicles in the presence of
Germany: From 19th October, Amazon will stop selling “substitutes for tobacco products”, which include nicotine-free and nicotine-containing finished liquids, nicotine shots, bases, longfills,
Germany: In a meeting organised by the newspaper eGarage, German politicians in the Bundestag shared their thoughts on the taxation of e-cigarettes. Ates Gürpinar, drug
Germany: The Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) has updated the list of notified e-cigarette products, which now contains 337,739 vapour products. Only
Germany: The federal environment minister, Steffi Lemke, is calling for a European ban on disposable e-cigarettes. In a newspaper interview, the minister said
Germany: The Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) has updated the list of notified e-cigarette products, which now contains 333,718 vapour products. Only products
Germany: Federal drugs commissioner Burkhard Blienert has called for further restrictions on tobacco and nicotine advertising and sponsorship. He said: “Existing gaps in advertising regulation must be
Germany: The Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) has updated the list of notified e-cigarette products, which now contains 329,250 vapour products. Only
Germany: The Ministry of Health has presented a bill to amend the Federal Non-Smoking Protection Act to prohibit the use of e-cigarettes in federal institutions, public transport,
Germany: The Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) has updated the list of notified e-cigarette products, which now contains 325,501 vapour products. Only
Germany: Burkhard Blienert, federal commissioner for addiction and drugs, told an annual reception in Berlin that it is “urgently necessary to close existing
Germany: The Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) has updated the list of notified e-cigarette products, which now contains 321,132
Germany: In answer to a question put by Bundestag member Rita Hagl-Kehl of the governing Social Democratic Party (SPD), state secretary Ophelia Nick said the commissioner
Germany: Stuttgart’s customs office seized almost 300 litres of untaxed e-liquids at an event described by organisers as “Germany’s largest vape trade fair”, press reports.
Germany: Federal drugs commissioner Burkhard Blienert has called for a ban on sweet and fruity flavours for e-cigarettes, saying they make vaping more attractive,
Germany: The Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) has updated the list of notified e-cigarette products, which now contains 315,432 vapour
Germany: Federal drug commissioner Burkhard Blienert has called for stricter rules on tobacco advertising, including e-cigarettes, after a survey of 1,383 people conducted by
Germany: The Federal Joint Committee responsible for determining which medications are available through health insurance has told ECigIntelligence that it has not yet decided
Germany: The Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) has updated the list of notified e-cigarette products, which now contains 310,464 vapour
Germany: Customs officers have have seized 4.4 litres of untaxed e-liquids during an inspection in Potsdam, near Berlin. They found seven out of ten retailers
Germany: In a meeting organised by the newspaper eGarage, German politicians from the current coalition government shared their thoughts on e-cigarette taxation and
Germany: Customs officers have seized 46 l of e-liquids and 40 counterfeit e-cigarettes in the Rhine-Neckar region of northwest Baden-Württemberg, on which a total of
Germany: The Bundesrat (federal council) has voted in favour of calling “on the federal government to campaign at the national and EU level
Germany: The Bundesrat will vote on 3rd March on Bavaria’s initiative for a ban on disposable e-cigarettes. This follows the recommendation by the Bundesrat Environment and European Union
Germany: Following Bavaria’s call for an EU-wide ban on disposable e-cigarettes, the Bundesrat has published a committee recommendation calling on the federal government to advocate an
Germany: The Federal Office of Statistics has released figures showing that €42.5m was collected last year in taxes on the sale of 266,018 litres of
Germany: The Bundesrat Environment Committee will discuss Bavaria’s call for an EU-wide ban on disposable e-cigarettes on 16th February. The Environment Ministry of the state of Thuringia
Germany: Saxony-Anhalt health minister Petra Grimm-Benne, a member of the Social Democratic Party – which is part of the government coalition – has
Germany: Members of the coalition Green Party (Die Grünen) are discussing a deposit system ("Pfand") for disposable e-cigarettes to encourage users to recycle the products properly, press
Germany: In response to a parliamentary question put by The Left party (Die Linke) on the taxation of e-liquids, the government said that
Germany: The Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) has updated the list of notified e-cigarette products, which now contains 303,179 vapour
Germany: The minister of health of the state of Baden-Württemberg, from the coalition party Die Grünen, and chairman of the Conference of Health
Germany: The federal drug commissioner, Burkhard Blienert, has called for stricter rules on the advertising of tobacco products, including e-cigarettes and heated tobacco,
Germany: The German Medical Association has called on the federal government to expand the planned ban of heated tobacco flavour to e-cigarettes. This comes after
Germany: The Bavarian state government approved a Federal Council initiative to call for a campaign at EU level to ban disposable e-cigarettes. The
Germany: Customs authorities in the city of Krefeld (close to the French border) have announced the seizure of hundreds of vaping products that lacked
Germany: According to a survey held by the Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), the largest biomedical research institute in Germany, more than three quarters of
Germany: The Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) has updated the list of notified e-cigarette products, which now contains 293,204 products.
Germany: The federal government has introduced the Disposable Plastic Fund Bill, in which manufacturers of single-use plastic must pay an annual fee into a central