Germany: A regional public broadcast service has released a documentary called “Big Puffs and Illegal Vapes”, investigating the sale of illegal vaping products containing more
Germany: Ahead of the Bundestag elections on 23rd February 2025, the German Alliance for Non-Communicable Diseases (DANK) has put forward a six-point plan
Germany: The Sueddeutsche Zeitung, one of the largest daily newspapers in Germany, has investigated the German vape black market, with a focus on
Germany: The Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) has updated the list of notified e-cigarette products, which now contains 461,640 vapour products. Only
Germany: The Greens (centre-left), currently in the ruling coalition with the Social Democratic Party of Germany, has recently published its Government Programme 2025. In it,
Germany: The Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD, centre-left), currently in the ruling coalition, has published its election manifesto ahead of the 23rd
Germany: From 1st January 2025, the tax on e-liquids increases to €0.26 per ml.
Germany:Â On 4th December, the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR)Â published an updated assessment of safrole, sucralose and menthol in e-cigarettes. The BfR said
Germany: The Federal Constitutional Court has not accepted a constitutional complaint directed against the introduction of the tax on e-liquids, in force since 1st July
Germany: On 27th November, Customs seized around 650,000 e-cigarettes, the largest quantity of illegal vapes seized to date in the region of Rhineland.
Germany: The Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) has updated the list of notified e-cigarette products, which now contains 450,284 vapour products. Only
Germany: Last week, officers from the Berlin-Brandenburg Customs Investigation Office and the Berlin State Police confiscated around 400,000 untaxed disposable e-cigarettes. According to current investigations, tax
Germany: Last week, the Munich Administrative Court ruled that a campaign by Philip Morris International’s German subsidiary constituted indirect advertising for tobacco and
Germany: On 22nd November, the Federal Council voted on an amendment to the Electrical and Electronic Equipment Act to ban disposable e-cigarettes. According
Germany: The Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL)Â has updated the list of notified e-cigarette products, which now contains 445,783 vapour
Germany: The Federal Statistical Office has told ECigIntelligence that tax revenues from nicotine and nicotine-free e-liquids and other mixed components for e-cigarettes amounted
Germany: Following the UK's planned ban on disposable e-cigarettes, a spokesman for the German Environment Ministry told the press that an effective regulation of disposable
Germany: The Federal Cabinet has approved an amendment to the Electrical and Electronic Equipment Act that would make it obligatory for retailers of disposable e-cigarettes, including kiosks
Germany: Following the EU’s proposal for the revision of the 2009 Council recommendation on smoke-free environments to extend the existing restrictions to novel inhalable products and
Germany: The Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) has updated the list of notified e-cigarette products, which now contains 440,510 vapour products. Only
Germany: Federal politicians have positioned themselves against advertising and taxation exceptions for tobacco alternatives in the press. Carlos Kasper, a member of the Bundestag (parliament) and
Germany:Â The Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL)Â has updated the list of notified e-cigarette products, which now contains 434,289 vapour products.
Germany: The Stuttgart Higher Regional Court has ruled that a screen placed in the outside-facing window of a fuel station, showing two brands of tobacco
Germany:Â The Environment Ministry of Baden-WĂĽrttemberg is calling on the federal government to ban disposable e-cigarettes because they are often disposed of incorrectly and
Germany: The federal government commissioner for addiction and drug issues, Burkhard Blienert, has called for existing loopholes in advertising regulation to be closed.
Germany:Â The Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL)Â has updated the list of notified e-cigarette products, which now contains 429,185 vapour products.
Germany: In an open letter, the German Environmental Aid (DUH), the German Medical Association and the Federal Association for Secondary Raw Materials and Waste
Germany: The opposition parties in the Bundestag (Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union of Bavaria) have presented a motion calling on the German government
Germany: The Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) has updated the list of notified e-cigarette products, which now contains 423,472 vapour products.
Germany: The Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) has updated the list of notified e-cigarette products, which now contains 418,396 vapour products. Only
Germany: Answering a small parliamentary question from members of the opposition right-wing party Alternative for Germany on tobacco and e-cigarette policy, the federal government said
Germany: The Federal Ministry of Environment and Consumer Protection opened for consultation an amendment to the Electrical and Electronic Equipment Act that would make it obligatory for
Germany: The Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) has updated the list of notified e-cigarette products, which now contains 370,221 vapour products. Only products
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