Battle ahead on flavoured pouches?
Flavours in nicotine pouches could become the next contentious issue for tobacco alternatives, following a similar route to e-liquid flavours, experts say
LATEST ALERTS
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Portugal Heated tobacco tax has increased… - Egypt Warning against sales without tax stamps…
- Panama Law banning heated tobacco, e-cigs and more starts today…
- California - United States San Jose flavoured tobacco ban starts today…
- North Macedonia Annual increase to heated and chewing tobacco excise duty in force today…
- Hungary New excise taxes on heated and some oral tobacco products start today…
- Germany Annual market data report deadline…
- Egypt No importing of tobacco products also produced in the country…
- Italy Heated tobacco self-regulation code published and endorsed…
- Netherlands HnB devices come under tobacco regulation…
- Europe Heated tobacco flavour ban becomes approved EC policy…
- Vietnam National Assembly member criticises heated tobacco ban…
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1st July 2022
- Portugal: The State Budget 2022, which increases the heated tobacco tax from €0.0837/g to €0.0845/g and sets that the tax cannot be less than €0.182/g, entered into force on 28th June.
1st July 2022
- Egypt: Today (1st July) the Egyptian Tax Authority published a warning against the sale of tobacco products, heated tobacco and e-cigarettes that do not contain tax stamps. It stated that whoever sells tobacco products without the tax stamp (pendulum) on them could face criminal charges of tax and customs evasion, punishable by imprisonment. The tax authority also announced a new QR stamp system that is yet to be implemented.
1st July 2022
- Panama: A law that forbids heated tobacco, e-cigarettes and other devices, with or without nicotine, was enacted today (1st July). The law makes an exception for free-trade zones, whose purpose is to export and re-export to a third country.
1st July 2022
- US - California: San Jose’s ban on flavoured tobacco becomes effective today, 1st July, prohibiting the sale of any tobacco products and e-cigarettes with an artificial flavour, natural flavour, aroma, herb or spice, including menthol-flavoured products. The ban exempts shisha, hookah and premium cigars from the restrictions. San Jose is the most populated city in the San Francisco metropolitan area, which means that the ban could affect around 1m people.
1st July 2022
- North Macedonia: Today, 1st July 2022, a new excise duty for heated tobacco products and chewing tobacco enters into force as a result of the annual increase every 1st July envisaged in the Excise Law. Therefore, the excise duty applicable to heated tobacco products is now of MKD3,550 (€58) per kg, and the excise duty for chewing tobacco is MKD2,175 (€35) per kg.
1st July 2022
- Hungary: Pursuant to Government Decree 197/2022, the new excise duty applicable to heated tobacco products, chewing tobacco products and nicotine pouches starts today, 1st July. As we previously reported, heated tobacco products will now be taxed at HUF35 (€0.09) per stick, and chewing tobacco products and nicotine pouches will be taxed at HUF24,780 (€62.25) per kg.
30th June 2022
- Germany: Today (30th June) is the deadline for tobacco product manufacturers and importers to submit their annual market data report on heated tobacco products.
30th June 2022
- Egypt: The Egyptian customs authority has published instruction No. 46/2022. Although there is still a degree of discussion, TobaccoIntelligence understands the instruction prohibits importing brands of all tobacco products that are also produced in Egypt, as reported by local press. No customs release letters will be issued if an imported product is also produced in Egypt, as it is a measure intended to protect local manufacturers. Only brands that are not produced in Egypt may be imported. In addition, the instruction clarifies that sanctions will be imposed according to Customs Law No. 207/2020 against the shipments that do not comply with the instruction.
30th June 2022
- Italy: The research institute Eurispes published a self-regulation code for the sale, marketing and advertising of vapes and heated tobacco products. The code is voluntary and, so far, it has been endorsed by Anafe-Confindustria, Uniecig (retailers association), Tobacconist Italian Federation (FIT), and the companies Logista and Philip Morris Italy.
30th June 2022
Netherlands: The Act amending the Tobacco and Smoking Products Act will come into force tomorrow, 1st July, regulating heated tobacco devices as tobacco-related products. The act also tightens limits on the advertising of all such products, including a ban on façade advertising.
29th June 2022
EU: The European Commission today adopted the “Commission Delegated Directive on the withdrawal of certain exemptions in respect of heated tobacco products”, amending the Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) to establish a flavourings ban for heat-not-burn (HnB) products. The delegated directive also makes mandatory the inclusion of appropriate health warnings on heated tobacco products. It will now undergo a two-month period of scrutiny, during which either the Council or the European Parliament can veto it. The act envisages an eight-month transposal period for member states after it comes into force, which will be 20 days after its publication in the Official Gazette.
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