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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.
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.
There may be more recent ECigIntelligence reports on this territory. Please visit the home page for the United Kingdom or the advanced search page. Introduction As ECigIntelligence predicted, the British government has transposed the TPD with minimal additional restrictions. Distance sales will be permitted and registration will only be demanded for retailers who engage in cross border distance » 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.
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).
E-cigarette designers may have found a way around the restrictions on maximum e-liquid tank size in the EU’s Tobacco Products Directive (TPD).
There may be more recent ECigIntelligence reports on this territory. Please visit the full list of regulatory reports, or the advanced search page. Executive summary E-cigarettes are not currently regulated in Slovenia. However, a strict regime will apply from May onwards, when nearly all forms of advertising will be forbidden and online sales banned under the Tobacco Products Directive » Continue Reading.
There may be more recent ECigIntelligence reports on this territory. Please visit the home page for Spain or the advanced search page. Executive summary Little seems to have changed in the Spanish market since our report in April 2015. The Spanish e-cigarette market is still slowly recovering from the crash experienced throughout 2014. We believe that the market ‘bottomed » Continue Reading.
Harm reduction vs the precautionary principle is an issue which has split public-health experts since the HIV epidemic of the 1980s, and still underlies debates over e-cigarette regulation such as the EU Tobacco Products Directive (TPD).
The European Commission (EC) has issued rules on e-cigarette refill mechanisms which all manufacturers will have to follow for products sold in the EU.
There may be more recent ECigIntelligence reports on this territory. Please visit the home page for Belgium or the advanced search page. Executive summary
Nicotine-containing products will become legal for the first time in Belgium, in contrast with the previous situation where a medical regime required a licence. Distance sales will not be allowed. However, the regulator » Continue Reading.
With only weeks to go before the measures of the EU’s Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) start to come into legal effect, ECigIntelligence’s European regulatory analysts have identified the major tasks facing e-cigarette companies.
There may be more recent ECigIntelligence reports on this territory. Please visit the home page for Denmark or the advanced search page. Executive summary Nicotine-containing e-cigarettes can’t be sold or advertised without a medical licence in Denmark. Selling nicotine-containing e-cigs and e-liquids as consumer products without a pharmaceutical licence will be legal after 20th May, when the draft » Continue Reading.
There is still significant confusion over the implementation of the EU’s Tobacco Products Directive (TPD). Despite the heavy impact it will have on the e-cigarette sector, a number of countries have still made little to no progress. See where everyone is with ECigIntelligence’s new implementation tracker.
A group of British vapers is convinced that voting to leave the European Union will save the industry and consumers from the looming Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) and its restrictions on e-cigarettes.
The European Union’s looming Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) includes an obligation for companies to notify authorities with detailed information on e-cig products – for example emissions, toxicology, and product components. ECigIntelligence outlined some of this in a recent report but here we explain further what you really need to know about the TPD’s Article 20. To facilitate data comparison and » Continue Reading.
There may be more recent ECigIntelligence reports on this territory. Please visit the home page for Finland or the advanced search page. Introduction Nicotine-containing e-cigarettes, currently illegal in Finland unless a medical licence has been obtained, will become legal from May 2016 and be treated as tobacco-related products. Despite this liberalisation, however, prohibitions that threaten the development » Continue Reading.
The British e-cigarette sector should seek an early review of the Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) rather than continue a doomed fight against this year’s introduction of the new EU rules, a politician has advised.
Regulatory landscape • Current national regulatory framework • Age restrictions • Packaging and product restrictions • Public usage • Advertising and marketing restrictions • Case law • Taxation • Enforcement • The missing pieces from the TPD jigsaw
Germany is to ban menthol e-liquid as well as many other flavours when it transposes the EU’s Tobacco Products Directive (TPD).
Introduction • Regulatory landscape • Current national regulatory framework • National regulatory framework post-TPD • Age restrictions • Product restrictions • Ingredients • Labelling and packaging • Product notification • Annual reporting • Vigilance • Retailing • Public usage • North Rhine-Westphalia • Bavaria • Baden-Württemberg • Lower Saxony • Hesse • Public usage: an inconsistent future? • Advertising and marketing • Taxation • Enforcement • Case law: e-cigarettes as medical products • Case law: e-cigarettes as tobacco products • Case law: tobacco advertising restrictions • The missing pieces from the TPD jigsaw • Graphic: how German e-cigarette regulation will change
Italy will stick to the minimum measures required by the EU’s Tobacco Products Directive when it implements the directive in its domestic law, according to a new report from ECigIntelligence.
The shape of future e-cigarette regulation in the UK became clearer today with the release of the government’s response to one major public consultation, and the launch of another on the issue of fees.
This new infographic from ECigIntelligence illustrates the large untapped market for vapour products in Europe.
This new infographic from ECigIntelligence examines the state of e-cigarette regulation and transposition of the EU Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) throughout the European Union.
Outdoor advertising and cinema will be the only mass media available to e-cigarette brands in England after May next year, the government expects.
James Higgs of Nicoccino shares his views on marketing, regulation, and education.
Introduction • Regulatory landscape • Current national regulatory framework • National regulatory framework post-TPD • Age restrictions • Product restrictions • Ingredients • Labelling and packaging • Product notification • Annual reporting • Vigilance • Retailing • Public usage • North Rhine-Westphalia • Bavaria • Baden-Württemberg • Lower Saxony • Hesse • Public usage: an inconsistent future? • Advertising and marketing • Taxation • Enforcement • Case law: e-cigarettes as medical products • Case law: e-cigarettes as tobacco products • Case law: tobacco advertising restrictions • The missing pieces from the TPD jigsaw • Graphic: how German e-cigarette regulation will change
The Totally Wicked lawsuit seeking to strike down article 20 of the EU Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) goes to the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) this week.
Portugal has become the latest European Union member state to implement the EU’s Tobacco Products Directive (TPD), hewing closely to its requirements but also introducing a public vaping ban with limited exceptions.
Introduction • Regulatory landscape • Current regulatory framework • Product categorisation • Age restrictions • Product restrictions • Notification procedure • Public usage • Advertising and marketing restrictions • Cross-border sales • Taxation • Case law • Enforcement • Conclusions • Graphic: how Portuguese e-cigarette regulation will change
Executive summary • Introduction • Current national regulatory framework • Age restrictions • Product and packaging restrictions • Retail channels • Notification procedure • Public place usage • Advertising restrictions • Taxation • Case law • Enforcement • The missing pieces from the TPD jigsaw
ECigIntelligence breaks down the minimum cost it is likely to require for a company to meet the recommendations laid out in the British Standards Institution (BSI) publicly available specification (PAS).
There may be more recent ECigIntelligence reports on this territory. Please visit the full list of regulatory reports, or the advanced search page. Executive summary E-cigarettes are not currently regulated in Cyprus but they are subject to general consumer protection and safety regulations unless they are deemed a medicine “by presentation”. ECigIntelligence has learned that the Medical and » Continue Reading.
Poland has unexpectedly proposed some stiffer measures for e-cigarette regulation than originally imagined. New proposals are looking to bring in public use as well as advertising restrictions along with the implementation of the EU Tobacco Products Directive (TPD).
There may be more recent ECigIntelligence reports on this territory. Please visit the home page for France or the advanced search page. Executive summary We believe the French market in 2015 to be worth €570m ($625m). There is expected to be only limited growth for the rest of the year, perhaps pointing to the French market topping out. The industry group FIVAPE » Continue Reading.
Regulatory landscape • Current national regulatory framework • Age restrictions • Packaging and product restrictions • Public usage • Advertising and marketing restrictions • Case law • Taxation • Enforcement • The missing pieces from the TPD jigsaw
Wales is likely to become the first part of the United Kingdom to prohibit vaping in workplaces and enclosed public spaces, while milder regulation has been tabled before Scotland’s parliament.
An in-depth look at the Czech regulatory market as the country gears up for EU Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) implementation.
Introduction • Regulatory landscape • Current regulatory framework • The missing pieces from the TPD jigsaw • Conclusions
Approval of an e-cigarette by a medical licensing body could have even more impact on the sector than the much-discussed EU Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) implementation, according to Nerudia, a consultancy and nicotine science company.
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