Californian senator Mark Leno’s e-cigarette bill is back, despite seeming to have died last month after a legislative committee tore out some of its most significant...
Regulation and Legislation
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Vape stores in Austria will be allowed to continue selling e-cigarettes, one of the country’s highest courts has... -
ECigIntelligence breaks down the minimum cost it is likely to require for a company to meet the recommendations laid out in the British Standards Institution (BSI) publicly available specification (PAS).... -
An in-depth look at the regulation and legislation ruling the South Korean e-cigarette market.... -
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 E-cigarettes are not currently regulated in Cyprus but they... -
Poland has unexpectedly proposed some stiffer measures for e-cigarette regulation than originally imagined. New proposals are looking to bring in public use as well as advertising restrictions along with the implementation of the EU Tobacco... -
Executive summary • Introduction • The multi-layered regulatory framework • Tobacco regulation – the multi-layered model in action • No federal regulation of e-cigs • The role of Health Canada • Provincial regulation • Municipal regulation... -
Executive summary • Background • Implementing acts and reports • Implementing act: reporting format • Implementing act: refill mechanisms • Report: potential public-health risks • The regulation-makers • External contractors and the expert group •... -
Organisers and visitors at a New Jersey e-cigarette expo face fines totalling $50,000 for vaping indoors, following the event management’s apparent misunderstanding of the state’s laws on e-cig use in public... -
Introduction • The deeming regulations: express pre-emption of state laws • Where pre-emption does not apply • Pre-emption in practice: California’s Prop 65 • How pre-emption can prevent state-level litigation • Appendix: the... -
Philip Morris International (PMI) is deepening its commitment to alternative nicotine technologies with new rollouts for its iQOS heat-not-burn device, as well as cautious health-related claims for the... -
Regulatory landscape • Current national regulatory framework • Product categorisation • Age restrictions • Packaging and product restrictions • Public usage • Advertising and marketing restrictions • Taxation • Case law • Enforcement • The... -
British e-cigarette companies can expect an array of new scientific and quality-control costs after the official launch today of the publicly available specification (PAS) for e-cig manufacture and testing from the British Standards Institution... -
Germany, one of the last major European nations to leave under-age purchase of e-cigarettes unregulated, has acted to fill that gap with the introduction of draft... -
The latest court decision on Italy’s attempts to tax e-cigarettes has suspended taxation on zero-nicotine e-liquid, but left in place the controversial levy on nicotine-containing... -
ECigIntelligence next month launches ECigIntelligence Platinum, the most comprehensive package of regulatory and business information available for the e-cigarette market anywhere in the... -
Infographic showing how the level of e-cigarette regulation in different territories appears to have an impact on vaping... -
Greece's ongoing financial troubles have implications for the e-cigarette sector, according to a new report from ECigIntelligence.... -
There was good news for e-cig advocates on both coasts of the U.S. this week, as a Congressional committee in Washington waved through proposed legislation that would exempt many e-cigarettes from aspects of the Food... -
Only about one in 30 Americans fully understand the relative health risks of different nicotine products, according to a new... -
Legislative solution: giving the FDA discretion • Legislative solution: changing the grandfathering date • Legislative solution: amending the Tobacco Control Act • Judicial challenge: the Tobacco Control Act’s purpose • Judicial challenge: scientific evidence •... -
E-cigarettes are banned by about one in eight of the globe’s nations, according to the World Health Organization... -
Introduction • Regulatory landscape • Current national regulatory framework • Product categorisation and the tobacco monopoly • Age restrictions • Product and packaging restrictions • Public usage • Advertising and marketing restrictions • Taxation •... -
State governments in Australia and the U.S. are moving to stop the use of e-cigarettes in cars where children are... -
The British government has released a draft law for the partial implementation of the European Union’s Tobacco Products Directive... -
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is considering new rules that could require manufacturers of e-liquids and other products to child-proof their packaging and affix warnings about nicotine... -
Canadian retailers’ attitudes to e-cigarettes differ dramatically across the country, new research... -
A crucial appropriations bill in the U.S. Congress is being used to launch a pre-emptive strike against the grandfather date for e-cigarette products proposed by the... -
New York state’s attorney general has cracked down on e-cigarette firms that violate state laws against selling e-liquids without child-proof... -
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... -
E-cigs will soon be prohibited from being carried inside checked-in baggage destined for the cargo hold of airplanes, as a UN agency modifies guidance to include the devices on the dangerous goods list.... -
State law: age verification • State taxes: “Amazon laws” • State taxes: the Marketplace Fairness Act • Federal law: PACT and mail restrictions • The future of online sales... -
Singapore is to ban e-liquids as part of a wider move to end the importation, sale and use of alternatives to combustible... -
Regulatory landscape • Current national regulatory framework • Product categorisation • Age restrictions • Packaging and product restrictions • Public usage • Advertising and marketing restrictions • Case law • Taxation •... -
Taxation of e-cigarettes in Portugal will hold back market growth and drive consumers online, although its effects have yet to be fully felt, the local industry... -
A senior member of the U.S. Senate has asked the government to start tracking imports of e-cigarette products, saying that the high proportion manufactured overseas has “revenue, public health and economic... -
Switzerland is preparing to legalise nicotine-containing e-cigarettes, which are currently... -
Wales is likely to become the first part of the United Kingdom to prohibit vaping in workplaces and enclosed public spaces, while milder regulation has been tabled before Scotland’s... -
The background to Greek regulation • National regulatory framework • Age restrictions • Product and packaging restrictions • Public usage • Advertising and marketing restrictions • Taxation • Case law • The missing pieces from... -
The British parliament has banned vaping in the corridors of power. But parliamentary groups discussing e-cigarettes are still going strong and planning their strategies.... -
Ontario legislators have voted in a new bill that severely restricts the marketing and use of e-cigs within Canada's most populous province.... -
Portugal’s taxation policy on e-cigarettes has kept the market relatively small – and its full impact has not yet been felt by vapers or companies in the sector, according to research from... -
ECigIntelligence is breaking down the complex potential layers of federal, state and local legislation.... -
An in-depth look at the Czech regulatory market as the country gears up for EU Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) implementation.... -
Introduction • State tax models • Varying impacts of tax models • State tax policy approaches analysed • State-by-state tax proposals in... -
Indonesia appears set to give teeth to its long-standing antipathy toward e-cigarettes with a new ban on sales and... -
A challenge to the New York City public vaping ban has been denied by a Manhattan judge.... -
A group of e-cig companies have banded together to lobby the Hong Kong government as it considers a proposal to ban e-cigs entirely.... -
New Zealand, where strict controls are placed on e-cigarette sales and distribution, has allowed an e-cig radio ad for the first time.... -
Executive summary • Market background and prospects • Market implications of the e-liquid tax • Market size • Consumption patterns and pricing • Online pricing • Brands and channels •...
