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Paraguay A bill to increase tax on tobacco products to be presented… - Finland Working group proposes measures to end tobacco and nicotine use by 2030…
- Italy ADM updates list of non-compliant websites…
- Finland Parliament approves amendment to Finnish Tobacco Act…
- Lithuania Concerns over changed procedure for calculating excise taxes…
- Sweden Bill introduced for further nicotine pouch regulation…
- Europe Health commissioner discusses BECA achievements…
- Thailand Thai court orders reduction of $4m PMI fine…
- Kazakhstan Nicotine content lab test report deadline…
- Russia Test phase starts of system to stop sales of expired and illegal products…
- Hungary Herbal sticks to be taxed as of today…
- Ukraine Last day to provide product ingredient information…
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2nd February 2023
- Paraguay: Opposition member of the Chamber of Deputies José Rodríguez said that he will present a bill in Parliament seeking to increase the tax on tobacco products – including heated and oral tobacco – from 20% to 24% of the wholesale price, press reports.
2nd February 2023
- Finland: A working group appointed by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health is proposing measures to end the use of tobacco and nicotine products in Finland by 2030. The group submitted its report to the state secretary on 31st January. The working group proposes that the six-monthly increases for tobacco taxes be continued in the coming government terms and also suggests that the age limit for selling tobacco and nicotine products be raised from 18 to 20, together with the extension of smoke-free environments. The group hopes that the next government will start promoting the report's measures at the beginning of its term.
2nd February 2023
- Italy: The Customs and Monopolies Agency (ADM) updated the list of websites that do not comply with tobacco products' long-distance sales and advertising restrictions. The ADM will block the websites that are still non-compliant on 12th February 2023.
2nd February 2023
- Finland: On 31st January, the parliament approved the government's proposal HE 304/2022 amending the Finnish Tobacco Act, which seeks to add the definition of heated tobacco and introduce a flavour ban for heated tobacco products as of 23rd October 2023. The act should now be signed by the president.
2nd February 2023
- Lithuania: Deputy chairman of the Budget and Finance Committee of the Seimas (parliament), Algirdas Butkevičius, has asked the minister of finance, Gintarė Skaistė, about the changed procedure for calculating the excise tax on heated tobacco, media reports. Butkevičius asked Skaistė to justify whether the changed excise duty procedure is more beneficial to the state budget, or whether the new excise duty rate for heated tobacco products per 1,000 units (it used to be per kg) increased the income of the budget.
1st February 2023
- Sweden: The government has notified a bill to the EU Commission TRIS database to introduce further requirements for nicotine pouch notification, labelling and health warnings. Such products were specifically regulated last year through the Act (2022:1257) on tobacco-free nicotine products and the Ordinance (2022:1263) on tobacco-free nicotine products. The standstill period ends on 26th April 2023.
1st February 2023
- EU: Ahead of World Cancer Day, EU commissioner for health and food safety Stella Kyriakides has spoken about the European Beating Cancer Plan (BECA)'s achievements so far and prospects for 2023. Although neither the revision of the Tobacco Products Directive nor of the Tobacco Excise Directive are directly mentioned, the commissioner has stated that the European Commission will be working on over 30 actions over the coming year. These include "measures to achieve smoke-free environments to increase the protection of citizens against tobacco and help deliver on our target of a tobacco-free Generation by 2024". Kyriakides stated that the BECA plan is her main priority as commissioner for health and food safety.
1st February 2023
- Thailand: On 31st January a Thai appeals court ordered a reduction of the fine of $4m imposed on Philip Morris International (PMI) for allegedly under-declaring import prices for cigarettes from Indonesia in 2002 and 2003, press reports. The court has ordered Thai customs to calculate the new fine.
1st February 2023
- Kazakhstan: The Health Code specifies that manufacturers and importers of heated tobacco must submit reports on the results of laboratory tests on the maximum permissible nicotine content by 1st February of the year following the reporting period.
1st February 2023
- Russia: Today, 1st February, is the start of the experiment introducing a system that excludes the technical possibility of selling expired products as well as illegal tobacco and nicotine-containing products in Russia. Chewing tobacco and heated tobacco consumables are among the products included in the experiment. Participation for the sellers of such products is voluntary. The experiment will come to an end on 1st August.
1st February 2023
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