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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.
5th October 2022
Italy: The Customs and Monopolies Agency (ADM) has updated the excise duties and prices of six flavours of heated tobacco consumables.
27th September 2022
Italy: The far-right Brothers of Italy party (Fratelli d’Italia) took first place in Sunday’s election with over 26% of the vote, and is likely to form a coalition with other right-wing parties, Forza Italia and the League. In the past, right-wing parties have generally supported a more lenient regulatory approach to new nicotine products, with Matteo Salvini, leader of the League, in particular being supportive of the tobacco-alternatives sector.
16th September 2022
12th September 2022
- Italy: The Customs and Monopolies Agency (ADM) enacted two circulars implementing the regulatory framework for nicotine pouches, first regulated in February 2022 through Law 15/2022. The circulars establish requirements for manufacturers, importers and retailers, but they did not introduce any restrictions on nicotine pouch ingredients, packaging or advertising.
5th August 2022
Italy: One new flavour of heated tobacco consumables has been notified to the Customs and Monopolies Agency (ADM), which has also updated the excise duty on six flavours.
25th July 2022
Italy: The Lazio Administrative Tribunal (TAR) has temporarily suspended a decree introducing retroactive notification fees for tobacco products due by 30th July following an appeal by the vaping industry association Anafe. The judges said the Ministry of Health had enacted the decree more than five years after the deadline set by the decree transposing the EU Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) into Italian law. The TAR will rule on the legitimacy of the decree on 18th November.
25th July 2022
Italy:Â Prime minister Mario Draghi has submitted his resignation and dissolved Parliament after the right-wing parties withdrew their support in the Senate. The next elections are due in September 2023 and the far-right Brothers of Italy are currently ahead in the polls, followed by the Democratic Party, League and Five Star parties. In the past, right-wing parties have generally supported a more lenient regulatory approach to new nicotine products.
30th June 2022
- Italy: The research institute Eurispes published a self-regulation code for the sale, marketing and advertising of vapes and heated tobacco products. The code is voluntary and, so far, it has been endorsed by Anafe-Confindustria, Uniecig (retailers association), Tobacconist Italian Federation (FIT), and the companies Logista and Philip Morris Italy.
21st June 2022
Italy: The Customs and Monopolies Agency (ADM) has updated the list of websites that do not comply with restrictions on advertising and long-distance sales of tobacco products. Websites that are still non-compliant on 23rd June will be blocked by the ADM.
14th June 2022
Italy: The Customs and Monopolies Agency (ADM) has updated the retail prices and excise duties on heated tobacco consumables.
8th June 2022
- Italy: The Ministry of Health issued a decree that introduces fees for the notification of heated tobacco sticks which amount to €327.85 for every new notification and to €108.23 for every substantial modification. Additionally, importers and manufacturers will have to pay an annual fee of €293.53 for the market data notification. The decree also imposes a retroactive collection of fees for all notified products from 20th November 2016; importers and manufacturers must pay those by the end of July 2022. We could expect to see appeals of the decree to the Administrative Tribunal of Lazio (TAR Lazio). It is not clear what other notification fees listed in the annex of the decree are applicable to heated tobacco sticks, and so we have contacted the Ministry of Health and the Customs and Monopolies Agency (ADM) to obtain more information.
