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The attitudes of New Zealand’s policy-makers to e-cigarettes seem to be growing more liberal than those of their counterparts in Australia, with the smaller nation edging toward greater tolerance of vaping while the larger maintains an unforgiving stance.
Contents1 Executive summary2 Regulatory landscape3 Previous regulatory framework4 National regulatory framework post-TPD5 Age restrictions6 Product restrictions7 Ingredients8 Labelling and packaging9 Product notification10 Annual reporting11 Vigilance12 Retailing13 Public usage14 Public usage: an inconsistent future?15 Advertising and marketing16 Taxation17 Enforcement18 Case law: e-cigarettes as medical products19 Case Law: e-liquid and nicotine20 The missing pieces from the TPD jigsaw21 Graphic: how German e-cigarette regulation » Continue Reading.
E-liquid maker Lost Art Liquids has filed suit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), claiming that the deeming regulations violate two parts of the U.S. Constitution and two important statutes.
The proposed Welsh public vaping ban is officially dead.
Greece is to become the fifth European country to tax e-liquids. A new levy of €0.10 per millilitre will go into effect on 1st January 2017.
E-cigarette manufacturers will have more than two years to prepare premarket review applications for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Infographic showing compliance dates for existing e-cigarette and ENDS products under the new FDA deeming regulations.
The final shape of France’s TPD transposition is becoming clearer following the presentation this week of an ordonnance to the Council of Ministers.
In this ECigIntelligence report, we examine in detail the schedule for the U.S. deeming regulations’ major requirements affecting products that already exist on 8th August 2016, which will bring them into compliance with the regulations for the short term.
The EU may be resorting to Excel spreadsheets and email after failing to get its online gateway for e-cigarette manufacturers up and running by today’s deadline.
The EU’s new Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) and national legislation are broadly sufficient to protect the public from nicotine poisoning, an official European study has concluded. But it does recommend further consumer education on the risks of ingestion, as well as tight control of industrial nicotine.
Europe’s online e-cigarette vendors are so far overwhelmingly ignoring new Internet sales bans where they exist, and taking full advantage of delays in legislation where they can.
The Republic of Ireland has succeeded in transposing the EU’s Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) at the eleventh hour, with recently-appointed health minister Simon Harris signing the necessary regulations to come into force today.
This page provides you with links to all ECigIntelligence coverage of the EU Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) since 1st January this year.
Nearly half of EU member states look likely to miss today’s deadline for fully transposing the Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) into local law.
We summarise the essential requirements of the EU Tobacco Products Directive for e-cigarette firms.
UK e-cig firms feel as prepared as they can be for the implementation of the EU Tobacco Products Directive (TPD), but many would still have liked to see it overturned by the European Court of Justice in the Totally Wicked case.
Although the EU’s Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) and the U.S. deeming regulations are coming into effect almost simultaneously this summer, their approaches could hardly be more different.
Eleven of the European Union’s 28 member states will ban online e-cigarette sales as part of their implementation of the EU Tobacco Products Directive (TPD). We explore the likely impacts.
Essential facts about the new EU Tobacco Products Directive and its rules for e-cigarettes, which come into practical effect on 20th May 2016.
The number of products on the U.S. e-cigarette market will contract sharply after the new deeming regulations come into full effect, according to their architect the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) – and its predictions suggest a sudden slowdown in innovation too.
Small independent vape stores in the U.S. are almost universally negative in their reaction to the new deeming regulations.
From May 2016, e-cig sales channels will be reduced in some European countries when the Tobacco Products Directive comes into force. This report looks at the details, including restrictions on distance sales, the imposition of age verification checks, licensing and registration of retailers, and limitations on retail outlets.
How will the new U.S. deeming regulations cover nicotine-free e-liquids and synthetic nicotine?
This page provides you with links to all ECigIntelligence coverage of the U.S. deeming regulations published on 5th May.
Members of the U.S. Congress, mostly Democrats, continue to welcome the Food and Drug Administration’s deeming rule extending its authority over tobacco to e-cigarettes and other products.
Some larger independent e-cigarette companies support the new rules from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), despite the debate over them being widely portrayed as an argument between Big Tobacco and health organisations on one side versus indie e-cig firms on the other.
Contents1 Executive summary2 Introduction3 Medical organisations’ position towards e-cigs4 Politics and e-cigs in the United Kingdom5 Summary of consultation questions6 Information sought by the regulator in the UK consultation process There may be more recent ECigIntelligence reports on this territory. Please visit the home page for the United Kingdom or the advanced search page.
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U.S. media reactions to the new deeming rule ran the gamut from praise for an FDA which had produced “sensible regulations”, to damning criticism for an agency which will supposedly do more to promote smoking than to stop it.
A U.S. e-cigarette maker has begun what may be the first of many lawsuits against the new deeming regulations from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Contents1 Introduction2 Regulatory landscape3 Devolved administrations4 National regulatory framework5 Near future situation in devolved administrations6 Product categorisation7 Information requirements8 Additional obligations in UK devolved countries9 Retail channels (cross-border sales)10 Age restrictions11 Product and packaging restrictions12 Labelling and information requirements13 Public usage14 Advertising and marketing restrictions15 Case law16 Taxation17 Enforcement18 Appendix 1 – Relevant consumer and safety laws19 Appendix 2 – » Continue Reading.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) believes most e-cigarette manufacturers will need to conduct fresh scientific research in order to obtain authorisation for their products under the newly-published deeming regulations – but not necessarily full-blown clinical studies.
Compliance with the new U.S. deeming regulations could be eased by the sharing of information among manufacturers and other stakeholders, says the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Differences between the FDA’s final deeming regulations and its 2014 draft version reveal many changes in areas ranging from retailing and health warnings to compliance timetables and product definitions.
The new deeming regulations from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will limit the regulatory authority of states and localities in a wide range of areas, with e-cigarette labelling proving to be one of the most contentious.
The era of vape stores producing their own e-liquids is likely to come to an end after the introduction of the deeming regulations in the U.S., the agency responsible for them predicts. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says it “expects that most vape shops will stop mixing e-liquids“ because if they continue to do so they will fall under » Continue Reading.
While the U.S. deeming regulations and the EU’s TPD will come into effect almost simultaneously this summer, bringing some regulatory consistency and clarity to the world’s largest e-cigarette markets, their approaches could hardly be more different.
Several members of Congress welcomed what they view as a long-overdue rule by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to regulate e-cigarettes, but the initial responses also provided another opportunity for Democrats and Republicans to show how divided they are when it comes to adding new federal oversight.
Initial industry reaction broke down largely along expected lines – with many of the usual faces popping in with early assessments. Further reaction is expected as more people get to grips with the massive U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulatory document.
Striving for science-based policy-making in the deeming regulations, the FDA faced a tough task in attempting to corral the rapidly-developing and often contradictory data on e-cigarettes at the same time as it was dealing with pleas and criticisms from the industry and pressure groups.
The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today published its long-awaited deeming rule that bring e-cigarettes under federal regulation for the first time.
The Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) has ruled against the British e-cigarette company Totally Wicked in its quest to overturn article 20 of the EU Tobacco Products Directive (TPD).
A legal challenge has been mounted against the recent U.S. ban on using e-cigarettes aboard aircraft.
Contents1 Executive summary2 Regulatory landscape3 National regulatory framework4 Age restrictions: current5 Product restrictions6 Labelling and packaging: current7 Obligation to notify8 Retail channels restriction (including cross-border and distance sales)9 Public usage10 Advertising and marketing11 Taxation12 Enforcement13 Next steps There may be more recent ECigIntelligence reports on this territory. Please visit the full list of regulatory reports, or the advanced search page. » Continue Reading.
Regulation of e-cigarettes should encourage vaping and reflect its low risk compared with smoking, Britain’s Royal College of Physicians (RCP) says today.
Contents1 Executive summary2 Regulatory landscape3 Current national regulatory framework4 Current national regulatory framework: near future5 Product categorisation and the tobacco monopoly6 Age restrictions7 Product restrictions8 Packaging restrictions9 Retail channels10 Information obligations11 Public usage: current12 Public usage: near future13 Advertising restrictions: current14 Taxation15 Case law16 Enforcement17 The missing pieces from the TPD jigsaw18 Graphic: how Austrian e-cigarette regulation will change » Continue Reading.
The British government has itemised the costs it expects e-cig firms to face after its transposition of the EU Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) comes into full force next month.
The British e-cigarette industry’s advertising spend will drop by 90% after May’s arrival of new restrictions based on the EU Tobacco Products Directive (TPD), according to a government forecast.
Australia’s pharmaceuticals regulator has been ordered to consider an application from Nicovations to register its Voke nicotine inhalator as an over-the-counter medicine.
The British government has transposed the EU’s Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) with minimal additional restrictions, as predicted by ECigIntelligence.
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