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Alternative tobacco and nicotine products in Slovenia

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Global business and regulatory news covering the alternative tobacco industry

EU heated tobacco flavour ban enters into force amid controversy and criticism

23rd October 2023

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6th September 2021

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Alerts

Daily regulatory updates of the tobacco alternative sector. It includes weekly podcasts and monthly compilations

10th April 2024: Slovenia: Amendments to the Act Restricting the Use of Tobacco and Related Products to transpose the EU-wide heated tobacco flavour ban into the national legal framework, to regulate nicotine pouches as a tobacco-related product and to establish a notification procedure for herbal heated products were published in the Official Gazette yesterday, 9th April. The law enters into force on 24th April (15 days after its publication).
4th April 2024: Slovenia: Last week the parliament approved the bill transposing the EU-wide heated tobacco flavour ban into the Slovenian legal framework, regulating nicotine pouches and regulating herbal heated products as herbal products for smoking, press reports. The bill is pending its publication in the Official Gazette, and will enter into force 15 days after it is published.
13th March 2024: Slovenia: The Health Committee of the Chamber of Deputies has unanimously approved the bill transposing the EU-wide heated tobacco flavour ban into the Slovenian legal framework, regulating nicotine pouches as well as regulating herbal heated products as herbal products for smoking.
7th March 2024: Slovenia: The bill transposing the EU-wide heated tobacco flavour ban into the Slovenian legal framework, regulating nicotine pouches as well as regulating herbal heated products as herbal products for smoking will be discussed by the Parliamentary Committee on Health on 12th March, press reports. The bill will move to plenary after its discussion by the committee.
22nd February 2024: Slovenia: Today, 22nd February, the government approved the bill amending the Excise Duty Act to introduce a tax on herbal heated sticks compatible with heated tobacco devices and to increase the applicable tax on heated tobacco products (HTPs). If further approved by the parliament, the tax would be set at €180/kg for both types of products.
31st January 2024: Slovenia: In light of today's national "No Cigarette Day", the National Institute of Public Health has issued a statement emphasising the harmfulness of novel tobacco and nicotine products. More specifically, the Institute considers that "heated tobacco products, electronic cigarettes, smokeless tobacco products, nicotine pouches continue to be marketed under false advertising as smoking cessation aids. The truth is that these are only tools for starting and maintaining nicotine addiction." The Institute, one of the most important stakeholders in the country, has been historically very vocal against novel tobacco and nicotine products, as shown in our Policy Radar.
30th January 2024: Slovenia: The Public Relations Office of the Slovenian parliament has told TobaccoIntelligence that the parliamentary debate of the bill transposing the EU-wide heated tobacco flavour ban into the Slovenian legal framework, bringing nicotine pouches under the Tobacco Law, and including herbal heated products in the definition of herbal products for smoking, would resume immediately at the end of the TRIS standstill period (13th February 2024) if no feedback is submitted by other EU member states or the European Commission. Alternatively, if detailed clarifications were to be requested by member states or the European Commission, the standstill period would be extended to May 2024, and the government would want to adopt the bill in the same month.
8th January 2024: Slovenia: The Ministry of Finance has opened for consultation a bill that would introduce a tax on herbal heated sticks compatible with heated tobacco devices and would increase the applicable tax on heated tobacco products. For both, the tax would be set at €180 per kg.
14th November 2023: Slovenia: The government-approved draft of the bill that would transpose the the EU-wide heated tobacco flavour ban into the Slovenian legal framework has been published and sent to the European Commission via the TRIS notification system. In addition to bringing nicotine pouches under the Tobacco Law, the new draft includes herbal heated products in the definition of herbal products for smoking, making them subject to the same regime. The government has proposed to approve the bill through the shortened procedure, which, if the Collegium of the Presidency of the National Assembly decides on favourably, would skip the bill's general discussion in the National Assembly, and the second and third hearings would be held in the same session. The end of the TRIS standstill period is 13th February 2024.
9th November 2023: Slovenia: The bill amending the Tobacco Law to transpose the EU-wide heated tobacco flavour ban into the Slovenian legal framework has been sent to the National Assembly after being discussed in the Cabinet today. According to the first version of the bill, it would also bring nicotine pouches under the Tobacco Law, making them subject to age, sales and advertising restrictions and notification requirements.
8th November 2023: Slovenia: The governmental Strategic Councils for Nutrition and for Health held a joint session yesterday (7th November) to debate measures to reduce tobacco use, especially among young people. The members of the strategic councils proposed, among other items, studying the possibility of raising excise duties on tobacco and related products, banning chewing tobacco, prohibiting characterising flavours for all tobacco and related products (which could include nicotine pouches), and imposing a complete ban on the advertising of tobacco products.

Regulatory reports

Detailed legal reports outlining industry regulation, analysis of the laws, and compliance requirements

Top changes that matter in this month’s Policy Radar update, March 2024

23rd April 2024

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Regulatory insights on herbal heated products in Europe, April 2024

17th April 2024

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SUP filters, EU requirements and transposition, January 2024

4th January 2024

Nicotine pouches regulatory reports |

Regulatory insights on herbal heated products in Europe, November 2023

30th November 2023

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The top changes that matter in this month’s Policy Radar update, June 2023

28th July 2023

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Market data

Market data outputs, statistics and forecasts in interactive and downloadable format

Heated tobacco markets database

22nd March 2024

Heated tobacco pricing tracker

30th January 2024

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Regulatory data

Up-to-date information about current regulations around the world

TobaccoIntelligence compliance calendar

26th April 2024

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Tamarind Intelligence Policy Radar, March

22nd April 2024

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Global regulatory tracker: tobacco-free pouches, March

18th April 2024

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Global regulatory tracker: heated tobacco regulation, April

5th April 2024

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Regulatory database: global alerts round-up, April

4th April 2024

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