Market & legal data in the tobacco alternatives sector in Kyrgyzstan

28th March 2024: Kyrgyzstan: Tobacco product manufacturers and importers are required to submit a product report to the Ministry of Health by 31st March, as shown in our our compliance calendar.
6th March 2024: Kyrgyzstan: President Sadyr Japarov has reportedly signed a law that provides a sanction regime for violating the requirements of the Tobacco Act, adjusting the current tobacco sanctions and making them applicable to vaping and heated tobacco products; however, it is not publicly available yet.
30th January 2024: Kyrgyzstan: The Ministry of Health intends to amend the sanctions regime for tobacco and vaping products, including for violations of public use requirements, by introducing fines, media reports. The proposal has been published for public discussion, but the deadline is unknown.
13th September 2023: Kyrgyzstan: The Committee on Budget, Economic and Fiscal Policy of the Jogorku Kenesh (parliament) has approved the amendment seeking to oblige all organisations and enterprises, including state and local authorities, to equip designated smoking/vaping areas, media reports.
27th July 2023: Kyrgyzstan: Members of the country’s parliament, the Supreme Council, have proposed obliging all organisations, enterprises and public places to establish designated smoking areas, media reports. The use of both e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products are equated in Kyrgyzstan with smoking.
31st March 2023: Kyrgyzstan: The Tobacco Act states that today, 31st March, is the deadline for manufacturers and importers of heated tobacco consumables and devices for tobacco heating to submit specific product information to the Ministry of Health. This includes information on manufactured and/or imported products, data on the category of consumers the design of such products is aimed at and data on the applied warnings, to name a few. This information must be submitted annually no later than 31st March of the year following the reporting year.
17th March 2023: Kyrgyzstan: The parliament approved the bill "On amendments to certain legislative acts of the Kyrgyz Republic in the field of taxation" in the second and third readings, media reports. The bill would apparently change the taxation mechanism for heated tobacco products so they would be taxed based on weight (kg) instead of quantity (pieces), underpinning the principle of harm reduction. The consolidated version of the bill is not yet public. The bill would need to be signed by the president before it comes into effect.
10th January 2023: Kyrgyzstan: The tax rate for heated tobacco consumables has increased from 1st January to KGS2,000 ($23.35) per 1,000.
9th November 2022: EAEU: Representatives of all five Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) countries – Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia – attended a meeting in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, to discuss the regulation of nicotine-containing products. Members said all such products were “harmful” and that in line with World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations, heated tobacco products should be considered not as electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) but as tobacco and “regulated as strictly as traditional tobacco products” as there was no evidence that they are any less harmful than cigarettes.
7th October 2022: EAEU: In accordance with the decision of the Council of the Eurasian Economic Commission, heated tobacco products are included in the list of goods for personal use that can be imported into the customs territory of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU, an economic union of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia) without payment of taxes, subject to quantity norms, namely up to 200 heated tobacco consumables. These norms apply to individuals age 21+ when entering Kazakhstan, and to those age 18+ when entering other EAEU member states. The decision comes into force tomorrow, 8th October 2022.
13th September 2022: Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU): Following a decision by the Council of the Eurasian Economic Commission, up to 200 heated tobacco consumables can be imported duty-free into the EAEU – the economic union of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia – for personal use. This will apply from 8th October to over-21s entering Kazakhstan and to over-18s in the other EAEU member states.
2nd August 2022: Kyrgyzstan: The Ministry of Economy and Finance has put forward for public discussion a draft resolution on minimum retail prices for tobacco and nicotine-containing products, media reports. It suggests the price for a pack of heated tobacco consumables should be at least KGS110 ($1.33) in 2023, then rising gradually until 2026.

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