Regulatory report: Spain, March 2021

Royal Decree 579/2017, in force since 11th June 2017, is the main piece of legislation regulating the manufacture, presentation and sale of e-cigarettes by transposing the Tobacco Products Directive 2014/40/EU (TPD) into domestic Spanish legislation. Some of the autonomous communities regions have also moved to regulate e-cigarettes, or at least start the process of regulating them, whilst some others have declared against it.

This report provides an overview of the current regulatory framework in place for vaping products, covering both national and regional regulations.

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Laura Garay Gómez

Legal analyst
Laura holds a Master’s degree in Public Law from the University of Seville, Spain, where she mainly specialised in International Law and Administrative Law and a Master's degree in Law and Legal Practice from Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. She has also studied International and European Law at the University of Helsinki, Finland, under the Erasmus Programme. She has worked as an intern at the ACO Office of Legal Affairs for NATO in Mons, Belgium; as international entity management coordinator for a multinational in Warsaw, Poland; and as legal assistant in a law firm in Seville. Currently, she is pursuing a PhD in Roman law in modern European legal history at the University of Seville.

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