Market & legal data of the tobacco alternative sector in Europe

5th December 2024: UK: The Department of Health and Social Care has updated the list of notified tobacco products, including heated tobacco products and herbal products for smoking.
5th December 2024: Netherlands: The citizens’ initiative Nicotinee – launched at the end of 2022 and declared admissible in July 2024 – which aims to prohibit the sale of all nicotine-containing products to consumers born on or after 1st January 2012, will be debated in the House of Representatives next Thursday (12th December), media reports.
5th December 2024: Russia: The Ministry of Agriculture has calculated minimum prices for nicotine-containing products for 2025. From 1st January 2025, the minimum selling price will be increased for 1 g of heated tobacco from RUB21 (€0.19) to RUB22 (€0.20).
5th December 2024: France: The proposed new taxes on tobacco products and e-liquids for the upcoming year are unlikely to be implemented following the no-confidence vote in the government. This development will lead to the resignation of prime minister Michel Barnier and could result in president Emmanuel Macron appointing a new head of government. The failure to approve next year’s budget has created an unprecedented situation, forcing the government to potentially operate under a provisional budget.
4th December 2024: Ukraine: The parliament has adopted the government’s bill (proposed in March) on increasing excise taxes on tobacco products with further amendments in the second reading. Bill 11090 proposes new excise tax rates for tobacco products from 1st January 2028, taking into account the minimum level determined by the EU Tobacco Tax Directive (2011/64/EU). The bill also envisages a gradual annual increase in rates to bring them to the specified minimum level, and the euro was proposed as the monetary unit to use to measure the excise tax rate on tobacco products. The bill now goes to the president for his signature.
4th December 2024: Spain: The minister of health, Mónica García, said at the EU’s Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council (EPSCO) that the Spanish government aims to achieve a smoke-free generation by 2040. She also said that alternatives to tobacco products and vapes must be targeted as there is more scientific evidence of their threats to health.
4th December 2024: Lithuania: Yesterday (3rd December), the parliament approved the amendment to tighten economic sanctions for individuals for the sale of tobacco and related products to under-18s, media reports. The final vote is still to come. In November, the act on a subject that was similar, but aimed at legal entities and foreign branches, was adopted by the parliament.
4th December 2024: Czech Republic: The State Agricultural and Food Inspection Authority has updated a list of notified tobacco products and their ingredients.
3rd December 2024: Greece: The Ministry of Health has updated the list of notified tobacco products. The list contains herbal heated products, heated tobacco products and nicotine pouches, among others.
3rd December 2024: Hungary: The law amending the Excise Tax Law to increase the applicable tax on heated tobacco consumables and herbal heated sticks from HUF35 (€0.085) to HUF38 (€0.092) per stick and to increase the tax on nicotine pouches from HUF25,960 (€63) to HUF28,060 (€68) per kg has been published in the Official Gazette. The new rates will enter into force on the 1st January 2025.
3rd December 2024: EU: Today, the Council of the European Union adopted the European Commission (EC)’s proposal to review the 2009 Council recommendation on smoke-free environments. The proposal extends the existing public usage restrictions to novel inhalable products and introduces new areas in which their consumption would be prohibited. As outlined in our news briefing, the European Parliament failed last week to reach an agreement over the EC’s proposal, but that does not preclude the proposal from being published in the Official Journal in the following days, as it only needed to be approved by the Council of the European Union.
3rd December 2024: Ireland: With all the votes counted, the main ruling party, Fianna Fáil, has once again obtained the largest number of seats, 48, at the Dáil (lower house of the parliament), press reports. The main opposition party, Sinn Féin, has obtained 39 seats, closely followed by the second main party in the current coalition government, Fine Gael, with 38. Fianna Fáil is likely to form a coalition government again with Fine Gael, and its victory is likely to have an impact on the innovative tobacco products sector, as the party holds a negative view towards tobacco and new tobacco products. Fianna Fáil stated in its political manifesto that it would ban the sale of tobacco products to under-21s if re-elected.

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