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Belgium: Health minister Frank Vandenbroucke has proposed a ban on vending machines in bars, restaurants and catering facilities selling any kind of vaping or
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UK: Junior health minister Caroline Johnson has said the Department of Health and Social Care is considering the recommendations made in the Khan review. This would include measures
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Netherlands: Asked whether a consumption tax or excise tax on e-cigarettes and e-liquids would be added to the 2023 Tax Plan, finance minister
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France: The left-wing Nupes alliance has presented an amendment to the 2023 Social Security Financing Bill that aims to ban disposable vapour products. Meanwhile president Emmanuel Macron’s Renaissance
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EU: Swedish MEP Sara Skyttedal has submitted a parliamentary question asking the European Commission whether it intends to include new nicotine products in the ongoing
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Spain: Deputy Aina Vidal Sáez has urged the government – in which her party, the left-wing Podemos, participates – to regulate nicotine-free pods exactly
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EU: Today is the last day to submit comments on the European Commission's published draft Delegated Regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 regarding
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Italy: The Custom and Monopoly Agency (ADM) has updated the lists of notified nicotine-containing and nicotine-free e-cigarette products. The total number of notified vaping products
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Montenegro: In 2022, authorities fined 258 people for not complying with vaping/heated tobacco/tobacco usage in bars and restaurants, local press reports. The authorities
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UK: Trading Standards seized nearly 500 non-compliant vapour products worth over £5,000 in Hartlepool, County Durham, local media reports. The products were seized
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Czech Republic: Yesterday, the national anti-drug coordinator Jindřich Vobořil held a press conference about a new action plan in the field of addiction,
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Italy: The Customs and Monopolies Agency (ADM) has told ECigIntelligence that nicotine-free e-liquids need not be accompanied by the EC-ID number when registered with the
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Czech Republic: National anti-drug coordinator Jindřich Vobořil will present a new action plan on addiction to government officials and interested members of parliament
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Ireland: The government is considering banning disposable e-cigarettes, press reports. The minister of state, Ossian Smyth, said that he is not against vaping products but
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Latvia: Yesterday, the Saeima (Latvia's parliament) approved in a second reading a bill amending the Tobacco Act. The regulation equates e-cigarettes and other
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France: The National Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health Safety (Anses) has published an updated list of notified e-cigarettes, which includes 86,607 products.
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UK: The long-awaited tobacco control plan may not be published after all, press reports. After its publication was delayed under the previous Conservative
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Iceland: The Ministry of Health has told ECigIntelligence that, for the time being, it does not plan to issue a regulation restricting the marketing
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Netherlands: The independent association Youth Smoking Prevention (Rookpreventie Jeugd) has reported the World Vapers’ Alliance (WVA) to the Dutch Food and Consumer Product
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Belgium: The government was today presenting its 2023 Budget, which was expected to include further increases in excise duty on tobacco products over the
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Sweden: The Patent and Market Appeal Court has banned the e-cigarette company Ecoswe from using attractive wording associated with fruit and sweets when marketing e-cigarettes and
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Portugal: The government has presented its Budget for 2023, which includes a proposal to increase the e-liquid tax from €0.323 to €0.336 per ml. The Budget
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Slovenia: On 5th October, the Ministry of Finance opened the comment period for a regulation that seeks to set out new applicable excise duties
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Sweden: The Public Health Agency has updated the publicly available list of notified e-cigarettes and refill containers, now containing 12,234 products.
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Ukraine: Tax officials in Lutsk, administrative centre of the Volyn oblast in northwestern Ukraine, have reported finding e-liquids being sold without a licence
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Ukraine: The health ministry’s Public Health Centre has set up an online platform for anyone who encounters a violation of anti-tobacco legislation to
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Lithuania: A bill to strengthen the Drug, Tobacco and Alcohol Control Department (NTAKD)’s power to shut downillegal advertising and internet sales of tobacco and tobacco-related
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Germany: The Federal Joint Committee responsible for defining what drugs statutorily insured people are entitled to has told ECigIntelligence that it has not
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UK: The City of York Council has launched a campaign until the end of the year, offering free support as well as free patches, gum and
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Denmark: The previously reported plan to ban access to tobacco and nicotine products for anyone born in or after 2010, presented in April by
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Bulgaria: With 99% of the ballots counted, partial official results show former prime minister Boyko Borissov's centre-right GERB party winning with 25.4% in
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UK: Liverpool city councillors passed a motion to fight the rising number of young people vaping, local media reports. Focusing on the poorer
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Latvia: Parliamentary elections took place on 1st October, with the centre-right coalition alliance, New Unity, obtaining the largest number of votes, press reports.
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UK: Salford City Council has announced that over 77,000 illegal e-cigarettes have been seized from a business in Broughton (Greater Manchester). This was the 13th raid
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UK: The “Nicotine vaping in England: 2022 evidence update” was published today, reiterating that vaping poses a small fraction of the risks of smoking for
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Denmark: As of 1st October, all e-cigarettes – including those manufactured before 1st October 2021 – must comply with standardised packaging regulations.
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EU: ECigIntelligence has today launched its third Survey on New Nicotine Products in the EU. We are asking Members of the European Parliament
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Russia: Sholban Kara-ool, deputy speaker of the State Duma, from the governing United Russia faction, has told the Tass news agency that a
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Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU): The Council of the Eurasian Economic Commission decided last week to introduce traceability marking for e-cigarettes throughout the EAEU.
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France: The Ministry of Health has told a French journalist that disposable e-cigarettes are under scrutiny by the health authorities. The ministry also confirmed that
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UK: Asked about packaging restrictions on e-cigarettes, junior health minister Caroline Johnson said the Department of Health and Social Care was exploring whether any additional measures
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UK - Scotland: The Scottish government published a report yesterday on the findings from the consultation on proposed restrictions on e-cigarette advertising . A total
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UK: The consultation on the voluntary standard developed by the British Standards Institution (BSI), PAS 8855, on vape product quality, performance and safety issues ends
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Netherlands: As the ECigIntelligence Compliance Calendar shows, today marks the end of the Ministry of Health, Wellbeing and Sports’ consultation on the regulation to limit the range of
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Italy: The far-right Brothers of Italy party (Fratelli d’Italia) took first place in Sunday’s election with over 26% of the vote, and is likely to
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Denmark: The health and finance ministries are setting up a combined task force to strengthen control over nicotine and tobacco products, focusing primarily on
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Spain: The government of Catalonia is preparing a regulation that would ban smoking on bar and restaurant terraces and at the entrances of
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