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Our legal experts track the evolving regulation around the tobacco alternatives sector on a daily basis. These alerts are then compiled into our Monthly Round-up section.
14th April 2023
Hungary: The government has notified a bill to the European Commission's TRIS database that would make nicotine pouches subject to the EU common product notification system for tobacco products. The bill would also enable the government to, via a decree, require that nicotine pouches carry a health warning.8th February 2023
- Hungary: The Supervisory Authority for Regulatory Affairs has told TobaccoIntelligence that approximately 2.6bn heated tobacco sticks and 16,009,229 g of nicotine pouches were sold in Hungary in 2022. This information is retrieved from the system to which every national tobacco shop must submit information on daily stock levels and turnover.
7th February 2023
Hungary: The Ministry of Finance has told TobaccoIntelligence that approximately HUF63.8bn (€162.4m) was collected in taxes on heated tobacco products in 2022, while approximately HUF27bn (€69m) was raised in tax on nicotine pouches.
1st February 2023
10th January 2023
Hungary: From 1st January, the new excise duty on chewing tobacco and nicotine pouches is HUF25,960 (€65.30) per kg.
20th December 2022
- Hungary: Provisions to include tobacco- and nicotine-free herbal sticks compatible with heating devices in tobacco legislation were published yesterday, 19th December, in the Official Gazette. As we previously reported, the parliament adopted these provisions on 7th December. These sticks will be allowed to be sold only in national tobacco shops, and will be taxed at HUF35 ($0.092) per stick starting 1st February 2023. These provisions also include more requirements for tobacco retailers and product display.
13th December 2022
Hungary: Parliament last week adopted a law closing a legal loophole that allowed nicotine-free herbal sticks compatible with heating devices to be sold in places other than national tobacco shops, press reports. From February 2023, these sticks will also be subject to excise duty.
11th August 2022
Hungary: The standstill period for the EU TRIS notification of a bill to restrict sales of herbal nicotine-free sticks compatible with heated tobacco devices to national tobacco shops only ends tomorrow, 12th August. The bill also seeks to apply certain advertising restrictions to these products.
12th July 2022
Hungary: The Supervisory Authority for Regulatory Activities (SZFTH) has provided TobaccoIntelligence with sales data on heated tobacco products, chewing tobacco and nicotine pouches. In 2021, 1.6bn sticks of heated tobacco were sold, twice the 2020 figure. From January through May 2022, 996m heated tobacco sticks were sold. Sales of chewing tobacco fell with the introduction of nicotine pouches to the Hungarian market, from 1.4 tonnes in 2019 to 269 kg in 2020, 776 kg in 2021 and 326 kg for the first five months of 2022. There were 8.2 tonnes of nicotine pouches sold in 2021, up from 1.8 tonnes in 2020. In the first five months of 2022, nicotine pouch sales amounted to 5.2 tonnes.
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.
29th June 2022
Hungary: The Ministry of Finance told TobaccoIntelligence today that 1.084bn heated tobacco consumables were released onto the market between January and May, bringing in an estimated revenue of HUF16.3bn ($43m) in excise duty. In the same period 394m kg of nicotine pouches raised an estimated HUF9.2bn ($24.4m) in duty, while 4.54m kg of smokeless tobacco yielded an estimated HUF100m ($270,000).
