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New regulation in Slovenia – one of the last European countries to transpose the TPD into law – applies to all types of e-cigarettes, with or without nicotine
E-cigarettes are regulated in Sweden by the Act on Electronic Cigarettes and Refill Containers (2017/425), which came into force on 1st July 2017. It transposed the EU’s Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) into Swedish legislation. Non-nicotine products are currently not regulated.
The industry’s hopes that a US federal spending bill would reduce the impact of the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) deeming regulations were disappointed this week when a Senate committee approved a version that makes no reference to tobacco products.
Passed unanimously by the Senate Appropriations Committee, the measure remained silent not only on e-cigarettes but on tobacco products in general.
Little Luxembourg faces the highest TPD product notification fees in Europe – and the fear is it will kill off the country’s legal vape trade
Iowa’s attorney general, Tom Miller, has written to FDA chief Scott Gottlieb urging him to ease the regulatory burden on the e-cig industry – in direct opposition to some of his Democratic Party colleagues
Legislation giving the e-cigarette industry crucial relief from what it considers onerous provisions in the FDA’s deeming regulation survived a Democratic bid to kill it and now is ready for a floor vote in the US House of Representatives
With no specific regulation in place, e-cigarettes in China only come under general consumer product rules – but that could change. Our special report investigates current Chinese law and where it might be going.
A proposal by Poland’s Ministry of Finance to introduce a PLN0.7 (€0.17) per ml excise tax on e-liquids faces fierce opposition from critics who say it would destroy the legal e-cig market in the country
Duncan Hunter, the vaping congressman, has failed in a theatrical bid to halt a move that would enshrine in law the existing ban on the use of e-cigarettes on aircraft
Recent changes in US state taxation policies for vapour products are explained via a new ECigIntelligence mapping service
The US state of Delaware has introduced a tax on e-liquids following an “extraordinary session” of the state legislature
The UK authority that oversees compliance with the EU TPD has said it will allow nicotine shots, even though they are seen by many as exploiting a loophole
Unclear regulation means most e-cigarette sales in India are conducted in a grey area, either through discreet physical stores or – more frequently – in a still small but growing online market
Our third guide to EU regulation on the classification, labelling and packaging of substances looks at possible exemptions for small packages – what is required by law and what may not be
Poland’s finance ministry is proposing an excise tax on all e-liquids that will raise the cost of vaping in the country and impose extra difficulties on independent producers
Spain was among the last European Union member states to transpose the TPD into national law, adopting it through royal decree only in June 2017 – and there are almost certainly further restrictions on e-cigarettes to come
President Trump has nominated Indiana health commissioner Jerome Adams, a supporter of harm reduction and outspoken opponent of smoking, to be the next US surgeon general.
A report by a media monitoring agency in Poland says the e-cigarette industry could do more to combat reporting which gives an undesirable image of vaping in one of Europe’s biggest e-cig markets.
E-cigarettes, banned throughout most of South America, could nevertheless be taken up rapidly across the continent, according to a senior public health policy expert on the region.
A two-year effort to provide relief to the e-cigarette industry from the FDA deeming regulation has received a familiar boost with the passing of a major appropriations bill by a US House subcommittee.
San Francisco has taken a big step nearer to a city-wide ban on flavoured e-cigarettes and tobacco products with a unanimous vote by the Board of Supervisors
Premium cigars, like e-cigarettes, have been brought under FDA control by the controversial deeming regulation – and the question now is whether they should be yoked together or handled separately.
The UK Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) has ruled against a number of promotions on the Vype website, arguing that the claims and images went beyond offering factual information.
Adding to existing restrictions, a new proposal to prohibit imports, possession and use seems likely to be passed by Singaporean legislators.
The first country to transpose the TPD has now updated its rules to bring non-nicotine e-cigs into line with nicotine products, as our comprehensive regulatory report explains.
E-cigarette use among young people in the US was markedly down last year, according to the 2016 National Youth Tobacco Survey.
Sweden and Luxembourg were the last of the 28 member states to implement the Tobacco Products Directive in domestic laws, which will come into effect this summer.
One in ten Europeans who have tried to give up smoking have used e-cigarettes or similar devices to help them, according to a wide-ranging public opinion survey for the European Commission.
E-cigarette regulation in Florida is minimal, focused entirely on preventing minors from gaining access to vaping products.
The interpretation of the European TPD by the Irish Department of Health has resulted in a slightly more restrictive stance towards e-cigarettes in the Republic of Ireland than in the neighbouring UK, but there is no nationwide ban on public vaping and nicotine-free liquids are unaffected by the regulations.
The US Navy’s suspension of the use and even possession of e-cigarettes on ships, submarines and aircraft has been sharply criticised by supporters of the vaping industry.
A ruling by the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority against one vape store’s ad may be good news for others – because it clarifies what is acceptable in local newspapers.
Spain, one of the last few European Union countries to transpose the Tobacco Products Directive into national law, has now partly done so through a royal decree.
The bill which should at last give Canada a clear regulatory framework for e-cigarettes has passed through the Senate and now needs only the official approval of the House of Commons to become law.
Trade barriers against e-cigarettes, or the outright banning of vapour products, contravene world trading regulations, next week’s Global Forum on Nicotine in Warsaw will hear.
The former Soviet republics of Georgia and its neighbour Armenia are to impose new regulations on vaping.
A citizens’ petition to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is calling for the agency to publish a revised guidance document and further extend the deadlines for compliance.
ECigIntelligence brings you updated detail on the state of Polish regulation of e-cigarette products following transposition of the EU Tobacco Products Directive into national law, and reports on how the rules are being enforced in practice.
ECigIntelligence examines the post-TPD state of e-cigarette regulation in Latvia, including the distance sales ban, taxation, registration, and retailer requirements.
New Zealand looks set to amend the law to allow nicotine-containing e-cigarettes to be sold in the country – but not to permit HnB products.
Austrian legislation regulates both nicotine-free and nicotine-containing product, going further than the TPD, with online sales banned and both advertising and vaping in public places heavily restricted.
Menthol flavouring for e-cigarettes is to be allowed in Germany after all following a decision by the Federal Council that it should be removed from the list of banned ingredients.
Regulators in California are preparing a dual assault on e-cigarettes, with plans to ban flavours in San Francisco and Oakland, and a possible state-wide ban on smoking or vaping in public housing projects.
The e-cigarette market in Mexico is very limited due to regulation and vape stores are largely clandestine, although some sellers operate online. Open systems dominate.
All state e-cigarette regulation in Pennsylvania relates to taxation – a 40% tax on e-cigarettes to be collected by wholesalers or manufacturers.
The US FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) is to receive a substantial budget increase next year, against the Trump administration’s general trend for cost-slashing – but the e-cigarette industry won’t be picking up the bill.
Uncertainty caused by new regulations is sending some vapers in Europe’s Balkans region back to smoking, according to local e-cigarette associations, who say the rules in Romania and Slovenia are in urgent need of clarification.
The newly installed commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) repeatedly told anxious law-makers on Thursday that he needs more time before deciding what he will do, if anything, about his agency’s controversial deeming regulation on e-cigarettes.
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has been named as the next director general of the World Health Organization, a role with huge influence on governments around the world, and therefore on the potential future of e-cigarette regulation.
A new ban on public smoking in the Philippines will not include e-cigarettes – contrary to initial reports. Moves remain ongoing, however, to bring some regulation to a currently all but unregulated market.
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