Author: Sergi Riudalbas

This report provides a detailed analysis of the current regulatory framework in place for oral tobacco and nicotine pouches in South Korea, covering all policy areas from advertising and taxation to market access and labelling…

The Tamarind Intelligence Policy Radar provides detailed analyses and comparisons of the current regulatory frameworks and five-year forecasts for a broad selection of leading vapour and novel tobacco markets globally…

This regulatory tracker, updated every month, provides an overview of the nicotine pouch regulations in the 27 EU member states and a select number of other European countries…

This regulatory tracker provides a summary of the regulation of tobacco-free pouches globally as specified by the authorities in each country in answer to TobaccoIntelligence’s enquiries or after specific information has otherwise emerged…

The proposal for a revision of the Tobacco Taxation Directive (TTD), presented to the Economic and Financial Affairs Council on 10th October, was welcomed by all EU member states, as they supported its general objectives…

This report provides detailed analysis of the regulatory framework for heated tobacco and herbal heated products in South Korea, covering all policy areas…

Discover the Tamarind Intelligence policy radar, providing detailed analyses and comparisons of the current regulatory frameworks and five-year forecasts for a broad selection of leading vapour and novel tobacco markets globally…

This short report examines some of the most important changes implemented in our Policy Radar update for the second half of November, December and up until 10th January 2025…

This short report examines some of the most important developments outlined in our Policy Radar update for the second half of October and the first half of November (up until 18th)…

The European Parliament has failed to reach a consensus on the European Commission’s proposal for a revision of the 2009 Council recommendation on smoke-free environments…

This short report examines some of the most important developments outlined in our Policy Radar update for the second half of September and the first half of October (up until 18th)…

This report examines the open cases of a potential conflict of interest around the contractors providing services to the EU throughout the review of the tobacco control framework…

This short report examines some of the most important changes implemented in our Policy Radar update for June, July, August and half of September (up until 15th)…

This short report examines some of the most important changes implemented in our Policy Radar update for May 2024…

This report analyses the position on novel products of over 100 EU-affiliated political parties across the 27 EU member states to understand the aftermath of the EU elections and their impact on tobacco policies…

This short report examines some of the most important changes implemented in our Policy Radar update for April 2024…

This short report examines some of the most important changes implemented in our Policy Radar update for March…

This short report examines some of the most important changes implemented in our Policy Radar update for February 2024…

This report examines the debate around possible bans on disposable e-cigs in Europe and through a case study of the French bill banning e-cigarettes, analyses if such a bill can be blocked by the EC…

This short report examines some of the most important changes implemented in our Policy Radar update for January 2024…

This report provides detailed analysis of the current and near-future regulation of oral tobacco and nicotine pouches in Malaysia, covering all policy areas from taxation and notification to advertising and labelling…

This report provides detailed analysis of the current and near-future regulatory framework in place in Malaysia for heated tobacco and herbal heated products…

This report offers detailed analysis of the regulatory framework for oral tobacco products and nicotine pouches in Argentina, covering all policy areas…

This report offers an overview of the current regulatory framework in place for heated tobacco and herbal heated products in Argentina, covering all policy areas…

This report seeks to answer the question of whether, when, and under which circumstances a directive can be enforced in a member state that has not transposed the directive…

This report offers a detailed analysis of the current regulatory framework in place for heated tobacco products and herbal heated products in Hungary, covering all policy areas…

This report provides detailed analysis of the current regulatory framework in place for oral tobacco and nicotine pouches, as well as possible future regulation changes…

This report provides details of the current regulatory framework in place for oral tobacco and nicotine pouches in Greece, covering all policy areas…

Greece transposed the EU’s Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) into domestic legislation through Law 4419/2016, adopted on 20th September 2016. This report covers regulation for heated tobacco…

New and emerging nicotine products, including heated tobacco, may threaten the achievements of decades of tobacco control, according to a new report from the World Health Organization…

This reports examines some of the most important changes implemented in the June update of our Policy Radar and provides some key insights into what they mean for the industry…

This report provides details of the regulatory framework in place in Slovenia for heated tobacco products, covering all policy areas…

This report provides details of the regulatory framework in place in Slovenia for oral tobacco and nicotine pouches, covering all policy areas…

This report examines the global regulatory trends that follow the data set out in the Policy Radar in order to unveil, to a limited extent, the direction of the discussions that may dominate the tenth session of the Conference of Parties of the WHO FCTC…

This report seeks to examine whether tobacco companies have a right to challenge the EU delegated directive setting out the heated tobacco product flavour ban and provides an overview of alternative ways to challenge the delegated directive…

This report offers a comprehensive overview of the current regulatory framework in place in Indonesia for nicotine pouches and oral tobacco…

This report offers a comprehensive overview of the current regulatory framework in place in Indonesia for heated tobacco, covering all policy areas…

This report offers a comprehensive overview of the current regulatory framework in place for oral tobacco and nicotine pouches in Malaysia, covering everything from taxation and advertising to product and labelling requirements…

This report provides a comprehensive overview of the current regulatory framework in place for heated tobacco products in Malaysia, covering all policy areas…

Flavours in heated tobacco products will be banned throughout the EU after a Delegated Directive was published in the Official Journal, with no objection coming from either the Council of the European Union or the European Parliament…

This report seeks to assess the arguments that may be used by the CJEU when examining the conformity of Belgium’s proposed ban on nicotine pouches with EU law…

This report provides a detailed overview of the current regulatory framework for oral tobacco and nicotine pouches in Iceland, covering all policy areas…

This report provides a comprehensive overview of all current and possible future regulation for heated tobacco products in South Korea, covering all policy areas…

This report provides a comprehensive overview of all current and possible future regulation for oral tobacco products and nicotine pouches in South Korea, covering all policy areas…

This report provides a detailed guide to the current regulatory framework in place for oral tobacco products and nicotine pouches in El Salvador…

El Salvador regulated heated tobacco products in June 2015, by including them in the definition of tobacco products. This report provides a detailed guide to the current regulatory framework in place for these products…

This report asks and answers questions about concerns over the recent proposal by the European Commission (EC) to ban flavoured heated tobacco products; it includes relevant definitions and precedents, as well as possible outcomes and effects…

This report provides a comprehensive overview of the current regulatory framework in place for oral tobacco and nicotine pouches in Luxembourg, covering all policy areas from notification and packaging to taxation and retail channel restrictions…

This report provides a comprehensive overview of the current regulatory framework in place for heated tobacco products in Luxembourg, covering all policy areas from notification and packaging to taxation and retail channel restrictions…

This report provides a detailed overview of the current regulatory framework for nicotine pouches and oral tobacco in North Macedonia, covering all policy areas from taxation and notification to advertising and packaging requirements…