Market & legal data in the tobacco alternatives sector in Netherlands

France plans to ban nicotine pouches to protect youth, new health minister says

Written by Tiziana Cauli | 31st October 2024

France may soon ban nicotine pouches as a measure to protect French youth, based on recent declarations by the country’s newly appointed minister of health Geneviève Darrieussecq ...

Dutch citizen petition for generational tobacco ban unlikely to go much further

Written by TobaccoIntelligence | 30th July 2024

A citizens’ initiative to achieve a nicotine-free generation, which aims to ban the sale of nicotine-containing products to those born on or after 1st January 2012 and has been admitted to the House of Representatives,...

Dutch citizens’ initiative for birthdate ban on nicotine products moves to parliament

Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo | 17th July 2024

In the Netherlands, the citizens’ initiative to achieve a nicotine-free generation has collected more than 40,000 signatures and has been declared admissible by the House of Representatives ...

EU countries called for flavour ban before Commission released related survey data

Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo | 26th June 2024

Last week, 12 EU health ministers backed a paper calling on the European Commission to propose new legislation, which could include banning flavoured vapes and limiting nicotine content ...

Netherlands edges closer to full ban on nicotine pouches with new proposal

Written by Antonia Di Lorenzo | 27th May 2024

The Dutch House of Representatives gave the green light to a proposal seeking to ban nicotine pouches completely in a move that seems to illustrate how the Netherlands is becoming increasingly anti–novel nicotine ...

Important EU cancer inequalities report not optimistic on tobacco alternatives

Written by Freddie Dawson | 5th February 2024

An influential European Union report, “Beating Cancer Inequalities in the EU”, has taken a cautious, generally pessimistic view on tobacco alternatives ...

EU heated tobacco flavour ban enters into force amid controversy and criticism

Written by Tiziana Cauli | 23rd October 2023

The EU’s ban on flavours in heated tobacco applies from today, amid criticism from harm reduction advocates, tobacco companies and some European politicians who believe that it could discourage smoking cessation ...

Dutch government rebuilding following collapse could affect tobacco regulations

Written by TobaccoIntelligence | 17th October 2023

The nearly 18m people of the Netherlands face uncertainty following the collapse of the government this summer. The cabinet is currently overseeing the nation with a “caretaker” status until the 22nd November general election ...

Dutch officials foresee conservative TPD that’s unlikely to take effect before 2027

Written by Tiziana Cauli | 26th September 2023

Dutch officials believe a revised EU Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) will not come into force before 2027 at the earliest and, when it does, will reflect a conservative approach to novel tobacco products ...

F1 Velo sponsorship in the Netherlands: is McLaren pulling a fast one?

Written by Tiziana Cauli | 23rd August 2023

Health organisations in the Netherlands are protesting against promotion of the nicotine pouch brand Velo by the UK's McLaren Formula 1 team ...

More improvement needed – WHO report gives the world 7/10 for tobacco control

Written by Tiziana Cauli | 2nd August 2023

Seven out of ten people worldwide – five times as many as in 2007 – are protected against tobacco-related health issues by sound regulatory policies, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) ...

Belgian ban: nicotine and cannabinoid pouch sales to be illegal this year

Written by TobaccoIntelligence | 14th April 2023

The sale of nicotine pouches in Belgium has been banned, effective later this year, on the grounds they pose a danger to public health, particularly due to their potential for addiction ...

Ukrainian regulator takes legal action to investigate PMI’s advertising of Iqos

Written by TobaccoIntelligence | 20th January 2023

The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine has taken a case against Philip Morris Sales and Distribution for violating unfair competition laws, the regulator announced earlier this month ...

How heated tobacco taxes are set to rise as European nations set new parameters

Written by Tiziana Cauli | 29th November 2022

Taxes on tobacco are set to rise across Europe and may be extended to alternative products, including heated tobacco. TobaccoIntelligence analysts consider how this will apply in various different EU member states ...

Netherlands wants to control and limit popularity of novel tobacco products

Written by TobaccoIntelligence | 10th June 2022

Dutch authorities want to bring in a range of regulations intended to limit the popularity of novel tobacco products such as nicotine pouches ...

Tobacco companies face €36m fine for restricting competition in Belgium

Written by TobaccoIntelligence | 18th May 2022

On 13th April 2022 the Belgian Competition Authority’s decision-making body, the Competition College, imposed fines totalling €36m on four major cigarette manufacturers for practices that restricted competition ...

Stricter vaping regulation could be good news for other alternatives in 2022

Written by Freddie Dawson | 31st January 2022

Consumers will continue to increasingly spread usage out over different alternative nicotine products partiy driven by further, stricter vaping regulation across the globe throughout 2022, TobaccoIntelligence predicts ...

Is plain packaging all it's cracked up to be when it comes to stubbing out smoking?

Written by Aidan Semmens | 22nd July 2021

A new study by researchers from the Luiss Business School in Rome and Deloitte comes to an unexpected and counterintuitive conclusion ...

Dutch tobacco advertising restrictions likely to pass despite objections

Written by TobaccoIntelligence | 5th July 2021

Some Dutch lawmakers have expressed concern about the consequences of an amendment to the Tobacco and Smoking Products Act and the introduction of new advertising restrictions on tobacco-alternative products ...

Dutch health officials call for warnings and stricter rules on nicotine pouches

Written by TobaccoIntelligence | 22nd March 2021

The Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) has called for stricter regulation and public warnings about “addictive and harmful” nicotine-containing non-tobacco products ...

Netherlands bans the sale of tobacco products in supermarkets from 2024

Written by TobaccoIntelligence | 23rd November 2020

Supermarkets in the Netherlands will no longer be allowed to sell tobacco, including heated tobacco products, from 2024, health minister Paul Blokhuis has announced ...

Netherlands set to brings HnB under its restrictions on tobacco

Written by TobaccoIntelligence | 10th September 2020

The Dutch government has announced that it is planning to amend the Tobacco Act to include heat-not-burn (HnB) product under the definition of “smokeless tobacco products and related products” ...

Netherlands aims to bring heated tobacco under smoking regulations

Written by TobaccoIntelligence | 25th June 2020

The Dutch government intends to regulate heated tobacco further by expanding the current tobacco restrictions to heat-not-burn (HnB) products ...

Dutch health secretary calls for a ban on public use of heated tobacco

Written by David Palacios Rubio | 16th March 2020

Dutch health secretary Paul Blokhuis has called for heated tobacco and any future new tobacco product to be banned from public use in order to help achieve the target of a “smoke-free generation” ...

Netherlands pulls out of international e-cig and tobacco committees

Written by David Palacios Rubio | 6th June 2018

The Netherlands is pulling out of a number of international e-cigarette and tobacco committees, blaming industry interference, but will carry on with regulation of heated tobacco and nicotine-free...

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