E-cigarettes are legal in the Netherlands, and are currently regulated as consumer products. But from May 2016, new regulations transposing the EU Tobacco Products Directive will enter into force. Our report examines current and future...
Regulation and Legislation
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The British e-cigarette sector should seek an early review of the Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) rather than continue a doomed fight against this year’s introduction of the new EU rules, a politician has... -
Regulatory landscape • Current national regulatory framework • Age restrictions • Packaging and product restrictions • Public usage • Advertising and marketing restrictions • Case law • Taxation • Enforcement • The missing pieces from... -
In the Philippines e-cigs are regulated as any other consumer product, therefore, the e-cig industry is largely unrestricted; in other words, very few product limitations apply, public usage and advertising is permitted, and e-cigs can... -
E-cigarette products containing nicotine cannot be sold in Japan without a pharmaceutical licence, and there appears to be little immediate likelihood of that changing. However, imports are tolerated and nicotine-free products can be sold. Our... -
The latest in a series of regular reports from ECigIntelligence on the progress of vapour-related regulation in the U.S, focusing on the current sessions of state... -
Denmark’s government has had second thoughts about imposing a strict, tobacco-style regime on vaping in public places. A new draft of wide-ranging legislation which will make e-cigarettes available as consumer products, transpose the European Union’s... -
Germany is to ban menthol e-liquid as well as many other flavours when it transposes the EU’s Tobacco Products Directive... -
The continuing disputes in Indiana over new regulatory requirements for e-liquid manufacturers may be defused by two bills just introduced in the state’s... -
The first in a series of regular reports from ECigIntelligence on the progress of vapour-related regulation in the U.S, focusing on the current sessions of state...
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Introduction • Regulatory landscape • Current national regulatory framework • National regulatory framework post-TPD • Age restrictions • Product restrictions • Ingredients • Labelling and packaging • Product notification • Annual reporting • Vigilance •... -
U.S. federal and state legislature convening and adjournment dates,...
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Executive Summary The Spanish regulator has initiated the process to transpose the TPD and regulate e-cigs: Advertising, promotion and sponsorship will mainly be restricted in line with the TPD Harsher... -
The U.S. House of Representatives on Monday gave final legislative approval to a bipartisan bill requiring child-resistant packaging on liquid nicotine sold in the U.S., paving the way for it to become law... -
Italy will stick to the minimum measures required by the EU’s Tobacco Products Directive when it implements the directive in its domestic law, according to a new report from... -
The shape of future e-cigarette regulation in the UK became clearer today with the release of the government’s response to one major public consultation, and the launch of another on the issue of... -
Most European countries remain thoroughly unprepared for the implementation of the EU Tobacco Products Directive (TPD), according to a new report from... -
A second lawsuit has been filed against Indiana’s controversial new regulations on e-liquid... -
E-cigarette retailers and vapers in the Chicago area will soon be faced with new taxes that could mean e-liquid prices more than... -
As we move into 2016, nearly half of the 28 member states of the European Union (EU) have made little apparent progress in transposing its Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) into their national law – despite... -
There may be more recent ECigIntelligence reports on this territory. Please visit the home page for Italy or the advanced search page. Executive Summary A draft legislative decree fully transposing the TPD is currently... -
Malaysia's fatwa council has decided to ban e-cigarettes - potentially leading to a much harsher treatment of the products by state regulators.... -
Executive Summary In Malaysia, the manufacture, distribution or sale of nicotine-containing e-cigarettes and e-liquids requires a pharmaceutical or medical license. Non-nicotine e-cigarettes and e-liquids are treated as consumer products. Lack... -
Medical licensing of an e-cigarette seems to have been decisive in swinging the favour of Britain’s pharmacists toward... -
E-cigarette manufacturers may have a choice of mechanisms for safe refilling of their products under the European Union’s Tobacco Products Directive (EU... -
Nine Democratic senators in the U.S. have urged a federal agency to investigate e-liquid sellers for deceptively advertising their products using recognisable brand names of candy, breakfast cereals and other foods and... -
There may be more recent ECigIntelligence reports on this territory. Please visit the home page for France or the advanced search page. Executive summary One of the largest e-cig markets, France has enacted regulations specific... -
One of the European Union’s most senior legal officers has upheld the validity of the revised Tobacco Products Directive (TPD), calling its requirements on e-cig manufacturers “relatively moderate” and “not... -
There may be more recent ECigIntelligence reports on this territory. Please visit the home page for the United States or the advanced search page. ECigIntelligence has published its comprehensive 106-page end-of-year guidebook on the regulatory landscape for e-cigarettes and... -
How much does regulating the e-cigarette industry cost? A new report in Wales gives insight into the bottom... -
France’s National Assembly has approved legislation that will enable the government to transpose the TPD by decree, and Germany has also published drafts of its proposed TPD... -
An Italian regional court has reaffirmed its suspension of the country’s tax on zero-nicotine e-liquid, and referred the entire question of Italy’s e-cig taxes to the national Constitutional... -
The attempt to bring forward the grandfathering date for e-cigarettes in the United States as part of a Congressional funding bill has... -
The Gulf state of Oman has become the latest in the region to ban the sale of... -
The U.S. Senate has approved a bill to require child-resistant packaging on liquid nicotine offered for... -
The Welsh Labour party has backed down on a proposal to enact a wide-ranging ban on vaping in public spaces. However, it would still like to see some areas marked as off-limits to vapers.... -
The Malaysian state of Johor has banned the sale of e-cigarettes and e-liquids within the state.... -
This new infographic from ECigIntelligence examines the state of e-cigarette regulation and transposition of the EU Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) throughout the European... -
The e-cigarette world in 2016 will be overshadowed by regulation. But the story will not just be about compliance. The market and the products themselves are rapidly evolving even without the influence of law-makers. So... -
ECigIntelligence’s Dan Irwin-Brown brings ECigIntelligence subscribers an updated market report for Poland, analysing the recent drop in e-cig prices. You can also download an Excel spreadsheet with a raft of additional information, including price points... -
There may be more recent ECigIntelligence reports on this territory. Please visit the full list of regulatory reports, or the advanced search page. Executive summary Slovakia’s provisions are largely in line with... -
Robert Califf, president Barack Obama’s pick to lead the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), has expressed his support for the agency’s approach to reviewing innovative tobacco products such as... -
There may be more recent ECigIntelligence reports on this territory. Please visit the home page for Germany or the advanced search page. ECigIntelligence’s Nikita Dzhain and Dan Irwin-Brown bring you an up-to-date analysis of the underdeveloped German e-cig market,... -
There may be more recent ECigIntelligence reports on this territory. Please visit the home page for Poland or the advanced search page. Executive summary The Polish e-cigarette market for 2015 is expected to be...
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New age restrictions for e-cigarette products have created some confusion over enforcement and best practice for UK retailers, both online and offline.... -
The e-cigarette industry in Malaysia has been thrown into chaos by health ministry raids on vape shops that sell nicotine-containing... -
Hungary’s transposition of the EU Tobacco Products Directive will do away with the current mandatory pharmaceutical licensing requirement for e-cigarettes – which has resulted in no nicotine-containing products being legal in the country – and... -
Outdoor advertising and cinema will be the only mass media available to e-cigarette brands in England after May next year, the government... -
Executive summary • Introduction • Why an electronic nicotine delivery system (ENDS) product requires a PMTA: distinction among ENDS products, components/parts, and accessories; three pathways to market approval; concerns about the grandfather date • Guidance... -
James Higgs of Nicoccino shares his views on marketing, regulation, and...
