11th February 2025 - Europe, Germany |
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: The Sueddeutsche Zeitung, one of the largest daily newspapers in Germany, has investigated the German vape black market, with a focus on
3rd February 2025 - Europe, Germany |
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
13th January 2025 - Europe, Germany |
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,
13th January 2025 - Europe, Germany |
Germany: The Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD, centre-left), currently in the ruling coalition, has published its election manifesto ahead of the 23rd
20th December 2024 - Europe, Germany |
Germany: From 1st January 2025, the tax on e-liquids increases to €0.26 per ml.
16th December 2024 - Europe, Germany |
Germany: On 4th December, the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) published an updated assessment of safrole, sucralose and menthol in e-cigarettes. The BfR said
13th December 2024 - Europe, Germany |
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
9th December 2024 - Europe, Germany |
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.
2nd December 2024 - Europe, Germany |
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
2nd December 2024 - Europe, Germany |
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
26th November 2024 - Europe, Germany |
Germany: Last week, the Munich Administrative Court ruled that a campaign by Philip Morris International’s German subsidiary constituted indirect advertising for tobacco and
4th November 2024 - Europe, Germany |
Germany: According to a study from Debra – the German Study on Tobacco Use, funded by the Ministry of Health – the consumption of e-cigarettes among people
31st October 2024 - Europe, Germany |
Germany: The Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) has updated the list of notified e-cigarette products, which now contains 445,783 vapour
28th October 2024 - Europe, Germany |
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
28th October 2024 - Europe, Germany |
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
1st October 2024 - Europe, Germany |
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
19th September 2024 - Europe, Germany |
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
2nd September 2024 - Europe, Germany |
Germany: The Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) has updated the list of notified e-cigarette products, which now contains 434,289 vapour products.
8th August 2024 - Europe, Germany |
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
7th August 2024 - Europe, Germany |
Germany: The Environment Ministry of Baden-Württemberg is calling on the federal government to ban disposable e-cigarettes because they are often disposed of incorrectly and
1st August 2024 - Europe, Germany |
Germany: The federal government commissioner for addiction and drug issues, Burkhard Blienert, has called for existing loopholes in advertising regulation to be closed.
31st July 2024 - Europe, Germany |
Germany: The Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) has updated the list of notified e-cigarette products, which now contains 429,185 vapour products.
2nd July 2024 - Europe, Germany |
Germany: In an open letter, the German Environmental Aid (DUH), the German Medical Association and the Federal Association for Secondary Raw Materials and Waste
1st July 2024 - Europe, Germany |
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
28th June 2024 - Europe, Germany |
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.
31st May 2024 - Europe, Germany |
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
24th May 2024 - Germany |
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
30th April 2024 - Europe, Germany |
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
4th March 2024 - Europe, Germany |
Germany: The Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) has updated the list of notified e-cigarette products, which now contains 358,530 vapour products. Only products
7th February 2024 - Europe, Germany |
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
30th January 2024 - Europe, Germany |
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
8th January 2024 - Europe, Germany |
Germany: As of 1st January 2024, outdoor advertising of e-cigarette and refill containers is banned, with the exception of advertising on the external
8th January 2024 - Europe, Germany |
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.
30th November 2023 - Europe, Germany |
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
28th November 2023 - Europe, Germany |
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,
31st October 2023 - Europe, Germany |
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
9th October 2023 - Europe, Germany |
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
9th October 2023 - Europe, Germany |
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,
3rd October 2023 - Europe, Germany |
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
28th September 2023 - Europe, Germany |
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
8th September 2023 - Europe, Germany |
Germany: The federal environment minister, Steffi Lemke, is calling for a European ban on disposable e-cigarettes. In a newspaper interview, the minister said
31st August 2023 - Europe, Germany |
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
1st August 2023 - Europe, Germany |
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