LATEST ALERTS
Belarus: According to the tax law amendment, from 1st January 2025, the tax rate for e-liquids will be BYN0.85 (€0.25) per ml.
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Russia: From 1st January 2025, the minimum selling price for 1 ml of e-liquid in a portion package (cartridge or capsule) will be
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Russia: According to the tax law amendment, e-liquids will be taxed at RUB44 (€0.40) per ml from 1st January 2025. Additionally, nicotine raw
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Serbia: Following the implementation of a new e-excise system, from 1st January 2025, the tax rate per ml for e-liquid is RSD10 (€0.09)
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Estonia: Following amendments approved and passed in June 2023, the current tax rate for e-cigarettes, set at €0.21 per ml, will increase to
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Netherlands: Last week, after the debate on the Nicotinee citizens’ initiative, the House of Representatives voted for a motion to have the government investigate
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Lithuania: The Department of Drug, Tobacco and Alcohol Control (NTAKD) has reminded retailers that as of 1st January 2025 displaying tobacco products and e-cigarettes
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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
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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
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Russia: The State Duma (lower chamber of the parliament) deputies have prepared a bill banning the sale of tobacco and nicotine-containing products at
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Spain: Today is the last day of the public consultation period for the draft decree that would amend royal decree 579/2017, which regulates the
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France: The French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety (Anses) has updated the list of notified e-cigarettes. The total number of vapour products
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Estonia: Parliament has approved bill 510 SE, which introduces incremental increases to excise duties on e-cigarettes over the coming years. The current tax rate
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Austria: The head of the tobacco monopoly administration, Hannes Hofer, expressed his concern about the lack of taxation on nicotine products, press reports. He also
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Russia: The Legislative Assembly of Saint Petersburg has prepared a draft resolution to appeal to the head of the Federal Agency for Technical
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France: The country’s caretaker administration presented an emergency finance bill to the parliament to avoid a shutdown after the country’s government and the 2025
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Bulgaria: The Ministry of Finance has presented the draft law on the 2025 State Budget, which envisages an increase in the tax on e-cigarettes.
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Iceland: The law amending various laws on taxes and fees has been published in the Icelandic Official Gazette, and will enter into force on
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EU: Sixteen member states of the European Union have sent a joint letter to the European Commission urging it to propose a revision
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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.
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Netherlands: The citizens’ initiative Nicotinee – launched at the end of 2022 and declared admissible in July 2024 – which aims to prohibit the sale
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Russia: The Ministry of Agriculture has calculated minimum prices for nicotine-containing products for 2025. From 1st January 2025, the minimum selling price will be
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Russia: Marine Gambaryan, the head of the Centre for Prevention and Control of Tobacco Consumption of the Ministry of Health, believes that in order to successfully combat
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France: The proposed new taxes on tobacco products and e-liquids for the upcoming year are unlikely to be implemented following the no-confidence vote
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Spain: Tobacco consumption is decreasing in Spain while vaping increases. According to the Ministry of Health’s 2024 Survey on Alcohol and Other Drugs in Spain
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Lithuania: Yesterday (3rd December), the parliament approved the amendment to tighten economic sanctions for individuals for the sale of tobacco and related products
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Czech Republic: The Ministry of Health has updated the publicly available list of notified herbal products for smoking, e-cigarettes and substitute refills.
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Greece: The Ministry of Health has updated the list of notified e-cigarette products. The list now contains 62,256 vapour products, including devices, disposables and
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Hungary: The law amending the Excise Tax Law to increase the applicable tax on e-liquids, regardless of nicotine content, from HUF33 (€0.08) per
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EU: Today, the Council of the European Union adopted the European Commission (EC)’s proposal to review the 2009 Council recommendation on smoke-free environments. The proposal
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Ireland: With all the votes counted, the main ruling party, Fianna Fáil, has once again obtained the largest number of seats, 48, at
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Russia: The State Duma chairman, Vyacheslav Volodin, has said via his Telegram channel that the State Duma (lower chamber of parliament) has begun
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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
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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
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EU: The European Parliament has voted against adopting a position on the European Commission’s proposal to review the 2009 Council recommendation on smoke-free environments. The cause seems to
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Czech Republic: In the statement by the Czech Republic on the subject of the EU Council recommendation on smoke- and aerosol-free environments replacing
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Switzerland: The canton of Valais has banned disposable e-cigarettes through an amendment to its health law, due to their easy availability and environmental impact, press
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Slovenia: The rules on the reporting of tobacco and related products and flavourings in electronic cigarettes and refill containers have been published in
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Hungary: The parliament has passed the bill amending the Excise Tax Law to increase the applicable tax on e-liquids, regardless of nicotine content, from
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EU: Today, the European Parliament approved the new European Commission, 370 votes in favour out of 688, with 36 abstentions and 282 votes against.
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UK: The Environmental Protection (Single-use Vapes) (England) Regulations 2024, which ban disposable vaping products in England from 1st June 2025, have been published today in
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UK: Yesterday (26th November) the House of Commons, the lower chamber of the UK parliament, approved in a second reading the Tobacco and Vapes
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France: The French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety (Anses) has updated the list of notified e-cigarettes. The total number of
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Monaco: Minister of health and social affairs Christophe Robino has announced the government’s intention to ban nicotine pouches, following the example set by
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Germany: Last week, the Munich Administrative Court ruled that a campaign by Philip Morris International’s German subsidiary constituted indirect advertising for tobacco and
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