Market & legal data in the tobacco alternatives sector in Portugal

21st February 2025: Portugal: The Tax and Customs Authority has updated the list of approved and non-approved tobacco products in force, which includes nicotine-containing e-liquids. The total number of tobacco products included is 9,350.
19th February 2025: Portugal: The Single-Use Plastics Management Association (ÚNICO) has been granted a licence to operate Portugal’s first extended producer responsibility system for managing waste from tobacco products with filters. ÚNICO brings together companies that place tobacco products on the market – British American Tobacco, Imperial Brands Portugal, JTI Portugal, Landewick and Tabaqueira – and Electrão, the Waste Management Association. This initiative is a result of the EU Single-Use Plastic Directive, and ÚNICO will assist companies in complying with these new regulations through extended producer responsibility systems, ensuring that producers contribute financially to waste prevention and collection as part of urban cleaning efforts. The directive mandates that costs be shared proportionally among producers to support these services.
4th February 2025: Portugal: The Tax and Customs Authority has updated the list of approved and non-approved tobacco products in force, which includes nicotine-containing e-liquids. The total number of tobacco products included is 9,323.
7th November 2024: Portugal: In an explanatory note to the 2025 State Budget, the Ministry of Environment and Energy stated that a licence will be issued for the management of an Integrated Tobacco Product Waste Management System. Tobacco producers must bear the costs of cleaning up public spaces, supporting municipalities in covering the costs of urban cleaning and allowing the financing of awareness-raising measures aimed at preventing the improper disposal of this type of waste. Rates for and details about the licence were not specified. The 2025 State Budget is scheduled to have its final vote on 29th November 2024.
24th October 2024: Portugal: The Tax and Customs Authority has told TobaccoIntelligence that €67.6m was raised in tax revenue from heated tobacco in 2021, €113.6m in 2022 and €152.4m in 2023. It added that, for taxation purposes, there is no distinction between heated tobacco products and herbal heated products, so the category is not separated.
11th October 2024: Portugal: The government has presented the 2025 state budget, which, unlike previous years, does not include an increase in heated tobacco taxes. However, tobacco tax revenues are expected to rise.
29th July 2024: Portugal: The Ministry of Finance has updated the price and colour for the tax stamps for the 2025 financial year. The prices are set at €0.00532 and €0.03752, respectively, for the non-adhesive version and the adhesive version, and the colour is green.
16th April 2024: Portugal: The Portuguese Environmental Agency (APA) has confirmed to TobaccoIntelligence that although producers of tobacco products with filters and filters sold separately for use with tobacco products have been subject to extended producer responsibility (via individual or integrated systems) under single-use plastic regulations since 6th January 2023, currently, it is still not possible to select any management entity for integrated systems, as there is no licensee, and there are no individual authorised systems.
11th March 2024: Portugal: Following the dissolution of Parliament in November 2023, the Democratic Alliance – a centre-right political alliance composed of the Social Democratic Party, the People's Party and the People's Monarchy Party – won the elections held yesterday (10th March), press reports. We do not believe that the change of government will have a radical impact on the sector, since the parties in the alliance hold a relatively negative view of alternative products, as shown in our Policy Radar.
23rd January 2024: Portugal: The Ministry of Health has told the press that heated tobacco will not have to carry combined health warnings (meaning both text and an image) after the approval of the law that transposed the Commission's Delegated Directive (EU) 2022/2100. "In all Member States of the European Union, heated tobacco can be classified as a smokable or smokeless tobacco product. In the case of combusted tobacco, the prohibition of odours or flavours and the requirement for combined health warnings apply. In the case of smokeless tobacco, the ban on odours or flavours and the mandatory health warning (text) apply," said the ministry.
19th January 2024: Portugal: Following the approval of the law transposing the Commission's Delegated Directive (EU) 2022/2100, which introduces a definition for heated tobacco products (HTPs), bans heated tobacco flavours and introduces combined health warnings, the Directorate-General for Consumer Affairs (DGC) said it will strengthen supervision of HTP advertising, as the products are now equivalent to conventional cigarettes, media reports. The authority added that enforcement of packaging rules and the flavour ban will also be increased.
16th January 2024: Portugal: The bill that transposes Commission Delegated Directive (EU) 2022/2100 was published in the Official Gazette. It introduces a definition for heated tobacco products (HTPs), bans heated tobacco flavours, and introduces combined health warnings if the product is considered a smoking product. The bill enters into force today.

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