Market & legal data in the tobacco alternatives sector in Malta

16th July 2024: Malta: The Ministry of Health has updated the list of notified tobacco products. The list contains heated tobacco products (HTPs) under the “novel tobacco product” category. Heated tobacco is treated as smokeless tobacco and thus banned. The ministry clarified to us earlier that the list represents a notification by the manufacturer/importer but not an authorisation.
27th June 2024: Malta: The Ministry for Health and Active Ageing has published its Policy Framework for the Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Disease for public consultation. It includes policy recommendations aimed at enacting restrictive measures for novel tobacco products, through increasing taxation on novel nicotine products and electronic non-nicotine delivery systems, and strengthening the current tobacco control legislation to fully align with the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC).
24th May 2024: Malta: The Ministry of Health has updated the list of notified tobacco products. Despite being banned, the list contained heated tobacco products (HTPs) under the “novel tobacco product” category. In response to our enquiries, the ministry confirmed that the list on their website represents a notification by the manufacturer/importer but not an authorisation.
20th February 2024: Malta: According to minister of health Jo Etienne Abela, the first "specific" tobacco control strategy is being developed. The strategy will include measures that aim to reduce the affordability and availability of tobacco products, minimise tobacco advertising and discourage the illicit trade of tobacco products, media reports.
24th November 2023: Malta: The Ministry for Social Policy and Children’s Rights has issued a Children’s Policy Framework public consultation document proposing a discussion on a generational ban on cigarette sales, media reports. There are no other measures proposed regarding nicotine products. Smokeless tobacco products, which include heated tobacco products, are banned in Malta.
9th October 2023: Malta: Amendments to the Manufacture, Presentation and Sale of Tobacco and Related Products Regulations were published in the Official Gazette last week. The amendments transpose the EU-wide heated tobacco flavour ban set out in Commission Delegated Directive (EU) 2022/2100, setting the same definition for heated tobacco products (HTPs) as in the directive. Smokeless tobacco products, which include HTPs, are banned in Malta. The amendments also prohibit cross-border distance sales of tobacco products to consumers located in Malta.
21st March 2023: Malta: A petition calling for heated tobacco to be legalised, published on the parliamentary website, will be open for signatures until 12th May. The sale of smokeless tobacco products, including heated tobacco, is currently banned in Malta.

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