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3rd February 2023
Estonia: The Tax and Customs Board has told TobaccoIntelligence that the tax revenues for heated tobacco products amounted to €1,118,202 in 2021 and €1,600,839 in 2022, while those on nicotine pouches amounted to €3,507,59 in 2020, €5,705,786 in 2021 and €6,671,162 in 2022.3rd February 2023
- EU: The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has dismissed the application for interim measures presented by the applicants in Case T-706/2022, Nicoventures Trading and Others v Commission, challenging Commission Delegated Directive (EU) 2022/2100 that sets out the flavour ban for heated tobacco products across Europe. The Court has decided that the applicants have not demonstrated the existence of serious and irreparable damage that precludes them from awaiting the outcome of the main proceeding, on the grounds that they failed to demonstrate that their market share would be substantially affected. This is because competitors will not be able to sell flavoured heated tobacco products either and customers purchasing these products from the applicants may well therefore switch to their non-flavoured heated tobacco products or other types of tobacco products.
3rd February 2023
- EU: Swedish MEP for the European Conservatives and Reformists Group, Johan Nissinen, submitted a parliamentary question last week asking the European Commission whether it can provide an indicative date of when the proposal for a revision of the Tobacco Excise Directive (TED) is due to be adopted, following the postponement of its publication – expected on 7th December 2022. The MEP also asked the Commission whether it can confirm that the proposal will not be published during the Swedish Council Presidency, as hinted by the president of the Economic and Financial Affairs Council and Sweden's minister of finance during an exchange of views with the parliamentary Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. The Swedish Council Presidency ends on 30th June 2023.
2nd February 2023
- Finland: A working group appointed by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health is proposing measures to end the use of tobacco and nicotine products in Finland by 2030. The group submitted its report to the state secretary on 31st January. The working group proposes that the six-monthly increases for tobacco taxes be continued in the coming government terms and also suggests that the age limit for selling tobacco and nicotine products be raised from 18 to 20, together with the extension of smoke-free environments. The group hopes that the next government will start promoting the report's measures at the beginning of its term.
2nd February 2023
- Italy: The Customs and Monopolies Agency (ADM) has updated the list of websites that do not comply with the long-distance sales and advertising restrictions for tobacco products. The ADM will block the websites that are still non-compliant on 12th February 2023.
2nd February 2023
- Finland: On 31st January, the parliament approved the government's proposal HE 304/2022 amending the Finnish Tobacco Act, which seeks to add the definition of heated tobacco and introduce a flavour ban for heated tobacco products as of 23rd October 2023. The act should now be signed by the president.
2nd February 2023
- Lithuania: Deputy chairman of the Budget and Finance Committee of the Seimas (parliament), Algirdas Butkevičius, has asked the minister of finance, Gintarė Skaistė, about the changed procedure for calculating the excise tax on heated tobacco, media reports. Butkevičius asked Skaistė to justify whether the changed excise duty procedure is more beneficial to the state budget, or whether the new excise duty rate for heated tobacco products per 1,000 units (it used to be per kg) increased the income of the budget.
1st February 2023
- Sweden: The government has notified a bill to the EU Commission TRIS database to introduce further requirements for nicotine pouch notification, labelling and health warnings. Such products were specifically regulated last year through the Act (2022:1257) on tobacco-free nicotine products and the Ordinance (2022:1263) on tobacco-free nicotine products. The standstill period ends on 26th April 2023.
1st February 2023
- EU: Ahead of World Cancer Day, EU commissioner for health and food safety Stella Kyriakides has spoken about the European Beating Cancer Plan (BECA)'s achievements so far and prospects for 2023. Although neither the revision of the Tobacco Products Directive nor of the Tobacco Excise Directive are directly mentioned, the commissioner has stated that the European Commission will be working on over 30 actions over the coming year. These include "measures to achieve smoke-free environments to increase the protection of citizens against tobacco and help deliver on our target of a tobacco-free Generation by 2024". Kyriakides stated that the BECA plan is her main priority as commissioner for health and food safety.
1st February 2023
- Russia: Today, 1st February, is the start of the experiment introducing a system that excludes the technical possibility of selling expired products as well as illegal tobacco and nicotine-containing products in Russia. Chewing tobacco and heated tobacco consumables are among the products included in the experiment. Participation for the sellers of such products is voluntary. The experiment will come to an end on 1st August.
1st February 2023
