LATEST ALERTS
Mexico: Yesterday (11th December), the Senate passed an amendment to the constitution that expressly bans the manufacture, distribution and sale of vaping products
France: The country’s caretaker administration presented an emergency finance bill to the parliament to avoid a shutdown after the country’s government and the 2025
Luxembourg: The bill transposing the EU-wide heated tobacco flavour ban and establishing a comprehensive regulatory framework for nicotine pouches has been notified again to the
Indonesia: Former director of research policy and cooperation at the World Health Organization (WHO) Tikki Pangestu said that, in order to reduce the
India: The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in India has introduced the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Packaging and Labelling) Amendment Rules,
Thailand: A parliamentary committee is finalising its report on measures to regulate e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products (HTPs) in an effort to protect
Bulgaria: The Ministry of Finance has presented the draft law on the 2025 State Budget. The draft envisages a tax increase on heated tobacco
Iceland: The law amending various laws on taxes and fees has been published in the Icelandic Official Gazette, and will enter into force
EU: Sixteen member states of the European Union have sent a joint letter to the European Commission urging it to propose a revision
Poland: The Ministry of Health has amended the draft regulating nicotine-free vaping products to also include nicotine pouches, press reports. The draft prohibited nicotine-free vape
India: Two members of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP, the ruling party), Shalini Yadav and Shehzad Poonawala, have called for stricter enforcement of anti-tobacco laws,
US - Michigan: A pair of bills have been introduced. House Bill 6235 would prohibit the advertising for sale, displaying for sale, marketing, and
UK: The Department of Health and Social Care has updated the list of notified tobacco products, including heated tobacco products and herbal products for
Netherlands: The citizens’ initiative Nicotinee – launched at the end of 2022 and declared admissible in July 2024 – which aims to prohibit the sale
China: The State Council Customs Tariff Commission recently issued the Methods for Levying Customs Duties, Value-Added Tax, and Consumption Tax on Imported Goods, effective
Russia: The Ministry of Agriculture has calculated minimum prices for nicotine-containing products for 2025. From 1st January 2025, the minimum selling price will be increased
Mexico: The Chamber of Representatives has passed an amendment to the constitution that expressly bans the manufacture, distribution and sale of vaping products and heating
France: The proposed new taxes on tobacco products and e-liquids for the upcoming year are unlikely to be implemented following the no-confidence vote
Ukraine: The parliament has adopted the government’s bill (proposed in March) on increasing excise taxes on tobacco products with further amendments in the
Indonesia: Cashtry Meher, a health practitioner and member of the National Democratic Party (NasDem), which currently holds 69 seats in the parliament, has
Lithuania: Yesterday (3rd December), the parliament approved the amendment to tighten economic sanctions for individuals for the sale of tobacco and related products
Czech Republic: The State Agricultural and Food Inspection Authority has updated a list of notified tobacco products and their ingredients.
Greece: The Ministry of Health has updated the list of notified tobacco products. The list contains herbal heated products, heated tobacco products and nicotine pouches, among
India: The Group of Ministers (GoM) on Goods and Services Tax (GST) has proposed raising the GST on tobacco products from 28% to
Philippines: Senator Sherwin Gatchalian from the majority bloc Nationalist People’s Coalition party has filed Senate Resolution 1243, calling for an investigation into revenue
Taiwan: The application and review status for the health risk assessment of heated tobacco products (HTPs) published by the Ministry of Health and Welfare (MHW)
Hungary: The law amending the Excise Tax Law to increase the applicable tax on heated tobacco consumables and herbal heated sticks from HUF35
EU: Today, the Council of the European Union adopted the European Commission (EC)’s proposal to review the 2009 Council recommendation on smoke-free environments. The proposal
Ireland: With all the votes counted, the main ruling party, Fianna Fáil, has once again obtained the largest number of seats, 48, at
Finland: A new government proposal to amend the Tobacco Act has been submitted to the European Commission’s TRIS system. The new proposal seeks to add
Global: The fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-5) on the international plastics treaty, which was supposed to be the last one, was
Russia: The State Duma chairman, Vyacheslav Volodin, has said via his Telegram channel that the State Duma (lower chamber of parliament) has begun
Vietnam: The National Assembly unanimously agreed to ban the production, trading, import, storage, transportation, and use of e-cigarettes and heated tobacco from 2025.
US - Massachusetts: Three state senators have announced their intention to file a new bill in the 2025-26 legislative session to generationally phase out the
Ukraine: Bill 12251 on amendments to the Law of Ukraine “On State Regulation of the Production and Circulation of Ethyl Alcohol, Alcohol Distillates, Bioethanol,
Global: The fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-5) on the international plastics treaty is currently taking place in Busan, South Korea,
EU: The European Parliament has voted against adopting a position on the European Commission’s proposal to review the 2009 Council recommendation on smoke-free environments. The cause seems to
US - California: The California Department of Tax and Fee Administration has released comprehensive tax guidance on tobacco products, outlining new laws that
Czech Republic: In the statement by the Czech Republic on the subject of the EU Council recommendation on smoke- and aerosol-free environments replacing
France: A joint committee composed of deputies and senators approved the 2025 Security Budget Bill, which includes an increase in taxes on heated
EU: Today, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) will hold the oral hearing on case C-759/23 concerning the validity of Commission Delegated Directive
Slovenia: The rules on the reporting of tobacco and related products and flavourings in electronic cigarettes and refill containers have recently been published
Hungary: The parliament has passed the bill amending the Excise Tax Law to increase the applicable tax on heated tobacco consumables and herbal heated
Ukraine: The Parliament Committee on Finance, Tax and Customs Policy has supported the government’s bill (proposed in March) on increasing excise taxes on tobacco
EU: Today, the European Parliament approved the new European Commission, 370 votes in favour out of 688, with 36 abstentions and 282 votes against.
Cyprus: An inquiry into the Cypriot Pharmaceutical Agency about the decision to classify nicotine pouches as pharmaceutical products has resulted in a confirmation
UK: Yesterday (26th November) the House of Commons, the lower chamber of the UK parliament, approved in a second reading the Tobacco and Vapes
New Zealand: The minister of health has published an action plan “Getting to Smokefree 2025: The final push to achieve the Smokefree 2025
Monaco: Minister of health and social affairs Christophe Robino has announced the government’s intention to ban nicotine pouches, following the example set by
