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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.
While the election of Donald Trump was greeted as a cause for some optimism in the US e-cigarette industry, hopes for the easing of regulation at the federal level lie not so much with the White House as with Congress, and the FDA.
France’s new health minister, Agnès Buzyn, may not be the biggest fan of e-cigarettes, but she may not be their biggest enemy either.
Philip Morris International (PMI) has run into legal trouble in New Zealand, where the health ministry has taken the company to court for attempting to sell its iQOS heat-not-burn device in the country.
The Italian government has implemented the minimum level of restrictions required by the European Union’s (EU’s) Tobacco Products Directive (TPD). A tax of €0.393 (0.438 USD) per millilitre is imposed on all e-cig products that contain nicotine.
The European Commission described the TPD a year ago as the tool that “aims to improve the functioning of the internal market for tobacco and related products, while ensuring a high level of health protection for European citizens”. Twelve months on, how far are those aims being met?
How far has Europe’s Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) succeeded in its goal of harmonising the e-cig market across the EU? For many, the jury is still out…
An Australian Federal Court decision against three e-cigarette retailers has added a note of caution but little clarity to what companies can say or do on their websites.
The FDA failed to assess the sources of comments properly when it decided not to regulate e-cigarette flavours in its final deeming rule, the authors of a new study suggest.
One of the world’s largest e-cigarette markets, France has transposed the European TPD in several pieces of legislation, starting with the Health Law plus decrees and ordinances with more detailed product specific regulation for e-cigarettes.
Companies looking to use health claims in South African e-cigarette advertising must present robust scientific data for every device, according to a new ruling.
An expected increase in e-liquid taxes in Hungary will not take place.
By contrast with other South American countries, which have a de facto ban on vaping, e-cigarettes have until now been virtually unregulated in Colombia. That could soon change, however, with a proposal before Congress to bring e-cigs under the umbrella of tobacco regulation.
From 7th June 2017, all e-cig products launched in Denmark must meet the new requirements for notification and ones that don’t must be removed from the market. As the transitional period is approaching, questions concerning hardware notification are being raised by many of our subscribers. This guide aims to clarify any particularities you may face in the process of hardware notification.
Finland has exceeded the requirements of the European Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) by banning all flavoured e-liquids except tobacco flavour.
The European Commission has published a new regulation on the classification, labelling and packaging (CLP) of substances and mixtures, including nicotine, to come into effect in December 2018.
South Africa has a growing e-cigarette market driven by rising health concerns and a parity between conventional and electronic cigarette pricing. But potential regulation casts a dark cloud on the horizon.
Until now the only law directly affecting e-cigarettes in Russia has been a tax levied on nicotine-containing products. But that looks set to change, with five bills under consideration that would see sweeping restrictions imposed.
Emmanuel Macron’s victory in the French presidential election gives the e-cigarette industry some hope for the future of the sector in the country.
Scott Gottlieb, who plans a review of the deeming regulation that has caused so much concern for the e-cigarette industry, is set to become the next commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) after winning Senate confirmation.
In Europe, chemical substances must be classified according to their toxicity levels, and depending on the classification some obligations arise, as detailed here.
Your guide to the new extended deadlines announced by the U.S. FDA for compliance with various aspects of its deeming regulations for the e-cigarette industry.
E-cigarette regulation in the U.S. is more complex than ever following the arrival of the final deeming regulations and increasing legislation at federal, state and local level, as is spelled out in detail in a new report for ECigIntelligence subscribers.
ECigIntelligence explores e-cigarette regulation in the state of New York, which is showing signs of taking a hard line toward vaping despite little existing law.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is expected to move back the deadlines for compliance with many aspects of its deeming regulations for e-cigarettes.
Congressman Tom Cole has cautiously endorsed FDA commissioner-designate Scott Gottlieb’s plan to review the agency’s contentious deeming regulation on e-cigarettes and tobacco products – but urged him to hurry.
Exclusively for ECigIntelligence Platinum subscribers, you can now download a free PDF of the most recent ECigIntelligence report on e-cigarette regulation in the United States.
A new decree clarifies the details of the workplace vaping ban in France.
A key U.S. Senate committee voted in favour of making Dr. Scott Gottlieb the next FDA commissioner after he laid out plans to review the deeming rule that has generated so much controversy within the e-cigarette industry.
A California Republican congressman and vaping promoter has introduced a bill in Congress to exempt e-cigarettes from controls in not only the controversial FDA deeming regulation but also the Tobacco Control Act.
Proposed legislation offering relief on the grandfather date in the FDA deeming regulation did not make it into a major spending bill to fund the U.S. government through the rest of the fiscal year.
A new customer service guide for French e-cig retailers sets out to professionalise the country’s vape stores and establish a nationwide code of conduct.
A newly launched U.S. industry association, the Global Vaping Standards Association, is targeting “fly-by-night” manufacturers, and making battery safety its first priority.
President Trump will get an early jump on naming the next U.S. surgeon general after forcing Vivek Murthy out as America’s top doctor.
Outdoor advertising is arguably the most important medium left open for e-cigarette companies looking to create brand awareness. But what can it actually do for a company and is it worth it?
Indiana’s infamous e-liquid manufacturing security law is a governor stamp of approval away from being modified – but the change may come too late for most of the state’s producers.
Representatives of Croatia’s vaping industry are protesting against proposed legislation which equates e-cigarettes with combustible tobacco products, claiming it will damage anti-smoking efforts and destroy jobs.
Sociologist Amelia Howard will tell the 2017 Global Forum on Nicotine in Warsaw that a lack of trust in the e-cigarette industry leads governments around the world to introduce harsh measures against a low-risk product.
ECigIntelligence finds a stringent approach to e-cigarette regulation in Finland, where nicotine-containing products were only recently legalised.
This report examines the current ways the e-cigarette industry in the U.S. has to get premarket approval from the FDA for new products, including detailed definitions of what constitutes a new product.
While The Tobacco Act classes e-cigarettes as tobacco-related products, Estonia’s government is considering a draft amendment to that bill that could see domestic online sales may be banned in 2019. Currently, e-liquid is not taxed, but that is likely to change in 2018, when e-liquids could be taxed at the rate of €0.2 per millilitre.
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