Market & legal data of the tobacco alternative sector in Denmark

1st July 2024: Denmark: An amendment to the Act on Tobacco Products and the Act on Electronic Cigarettes enters into force today. It strengthens age control for sales of tobacco and nicotine products, authorising the Danish Safety Technology Authority to make use of young control buyers with hidden identities.
25th June 2024: Denmark: At an EU council meeting, minister of health Sophie Løhde urged the EU Commission to change the EU legislation to protect children and young people against tobacco and nicotine. “Across Europe, we are seeing an increase in the use of new nicotine and tobacco products among children and young people. This is a very worrying development, as nicotine products are highly addictive and harmful to health. With the support of a large number of EU countries, I have therefore today urged the European Commission to do more in Europe to limit the marketing of tobacco and nicotine products, especially in relation to children and young people,” she said. France, Germany, and the Nordic member states supported the Danish position.
18th June 2024: Denmark: The Ministry of Health has released for consultation a draft bill to amend the Tobacco Products Act. The measures include a ban on flavourings for nicotine pouches other than tobacco and menthol, the possibility for the Ministry of Health to set rules on maximum nicotine levels in nicotine pouches, an expansion of the places where heated tobacco usage is prohibited and increased penalties for those who do not comply with the law. The consultation is open until 19th August. The bill has also been notified to the EU TRIS database, with a standstill period until 18th September.
5th June 2024: Denmark: Parliament has approved an amendment of the Act on Tobacco Products and the Act on Electronic Cigarettes. Among other measures, the amendment strengthens age control for sales of tobacco and nicotine products, authorising the Danish Safety Technology Authority to make use of young control buyers with hidden identities. The law enters into force on 1st July 2024.
13th May 2024: Denmark: The Ministry of the Environment is analysing whether legislation can be introduced to extend producer responsibility for nicotine pouch manufacturers, press reports. This means that companies would be responsible for cleaning up their products that end up as litter in nature and public spaces. According to the minister, “there is no difference between cigarette butts and nicotine pouches that end up in natural settings. This is waste that should not be lying around in nature.”
29th April 2024: Denmark: The Ministry of Health has notified a bill to the European Commission’s TRIS database to amend the Executive Order on Quality, Labelling and Age Control Systems, to reinforce the already existing age-verification mechanism and impose stricter requirements. The amendment establishes that retailers of tobacco products and tobacco substitutes must operate an age-control system for remote sales that effectively verifies the buyer’s age. The standstill period finishes on 29th July 2024.
26th March 2024: Denmark: The Ministry of Environment has notified a decree extending producer responsibility for single-use plastic products, including filters for tobacco products. The decree establishes a registration system for producers of single-use plastic products, the obligation to report the quantity of products and the payment of a quarterly fee to the Danish Environmental Protection Agency to cover costs of municipal and state clean-up, transport and treatment of littered waste. The fee will be published on the Environmental Protection Agency's website. The standstill period ends on 25th June 2024.
15th December 2023: Denmark: The Danish Safety Technology Authority has told TobaccoIntelligence there are no rules or definitions that apply directly to herbal heated products. However, the authority has assessed the products and understands that they fall under the definition of e-cigarettes. This means that, depending on if they are nicotine-containing or nicotine-free, the products must comply with the e-cigarette rules, such as notification via the EU Common Entry Gate (EU-CEG), and they must not have any flavour other than menthol or tobacco.
23rd November 2023: EU: Christel Schaldemose, a Danish member of European Parliament (MEP) from the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats, has asked the European Commission (EC) a set of questions regarding cigarette filters. She has asked if the Commission will make efforts to introduce a ban on the sale of cigarettes with filters in the EU, and whether, alternatively, the Commission will make efforts to introduce legislation enabling individual member states to introduce bans on the sale of cigarettes with filters in order to protect the public and the environment at the national level. We understand that the answers and possible efforts from the Commission would also be applicable to heated tobacco filters.
15th November 2023: Denmark: A new prevention plan that aims to reduce nicotine and tobacco product consumption by children and young people has been presented by the governing parties (Social Democrats, the Left and the Moderates) together with some opposition parties. Among the measures are higher taxes for nicotine pouches – increased from DKK0.055 (€0.008) to DKK0.10 (€0.013) per mg of nicotine – usage of digital age verification in stores and online, a flavour ban on nicotine pouches, a limit on nicotine content and additives in nicotine pouches, and standard packaging for heated tobacco and nicotine pouches. Bills related to the measures will be presented in 2024 and will be notified to the European Commission.
10th November 2023: Denmark: The government is expected to present a plan soon to prevent smoking and nicotine use, according to the press. The plan is said to include a proposal to increase the tax on nicotine pouches to DKK12 (€1.60) per pack of 20. Other measures, such as stricter controls on tobacco sales, are also expected. It was not disclosed if the plan will affect heated tobacco.
27th September 2023: Denmark: The Customs Authority has informed TobaccoIntelligence that herbal heated sticks are subject to excise duty, as the herbs in the product are a substitute product for tobacco and, as such, are comparable with coarsely cut smoking tobacco. Therefore, the excise duty imposed on the product will generally be DKK1,500.90 (€201.27) per kg.

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