Russia Proposes Online Ban and In-Store Display Ban for E-cigarettes, Effective June 1
On April 11, Russia proposed to ban online salese-cigarettesOffline e-cigarette sales are prohibited from public display and display. After the proposal is passed, what impact will it have on online platforms and e-cigarette retail stores? What is the significance of this? In this regard, Liang Jiasen, two Russian market researchers, provided a professional interpretation of the proposal.
[Two Priests Original Ideas] On April 11, the Russian State Duma supported the "Proposal on Amending Individual Legislative Regulations of The Russian Federation"(hereinafter referred to as the "Proposal") with more than 90% votes in favor at the plenary session. The contents of the proposal includeOnline sales of e-cigarettes are prohibited, and offline e-cigarette sales are prohibited from public display and displayWait. The bill will be submitted to The Russian Federation for review and awaits the president's signature.
After the proposal is released, what impact will it have on online platforms and e-cigarette retail stores? What is the significance of this?... These issues have attracted much attention. In this regard, Liang Jiasen, two Russian market researchers, provided a professional interpretation of the proposal.
In summary, there are two main aspects of this content change:
Public display will be prohibited in retail of e-cigarette products;
Ban the online sale of e-cigarettes.
The proposal will take effect on June 1, 2023.
The following is a detailed interpretation:
Bill content:
Retail sales of tobacco products, nicotine-content products and hookah equipment in stores and exhibition halls. According to this clause, a store means a building or part thereof that is specially equipped, used for selling goods and providing services to customers, and is equipped with commercial, auxiliary, administrative and living facilities, as well as for receiving, storing goods and preparing for sale; a pavilion means a building with a sales area and designed as one or more jobs.
Changed: Device for adding and consuming nicotine-containing products after hookah.
Two supreme interpretations:
In Russia, most of the compliant sales points of tobacco products are TABAK. The standards for TABAK stores are subject to the relevant provisions of The Russian Federation's N15-FZ "On Protecting Citizens 'Health from Environmental Tobacco Smoke Exposure, the Consequences of Tobacco Consumption or the Consumption of Nicotine-Containing Products." This change adds "equipment that consumes nicotine-containing products", which basically covers most atomizing e-cigarette equipment on the market. At the same time, the sales of such products in the exhibition hall are also included in the scope of legal supervision.
At present, e-cigarette retail in Russia is mostly carried out through vapeshop, large supermarket chains, online stores and bulk cargo stalls, which is difficult to supervise and highly mobile. This legal amendment covers the management standards of cigarette retail establishments to the field of e-cigarettes, establishing unified quantitative standards for e-cigarettes and facilitating government management.
#p#Pagination Title #e#Bill content:
If there are no local shops and exhibition halls, it is allowed to trade tobacco products or products containing nicotine, hookah, or to trade tobacco products or products containing nicotine, hookah, in other commercial facilities.
Changes: Equipment for adding and consuming nicotine-containing products after hookah;
Two supreme interpretations:
This article mainly covers the sales of tobacco products within non-national standard tobacco retail stores and exhibition halls, and adopts other types of tobacco products allowed by law, such as mobile transactions, express delivery and pay-on-delivery methods. The new content of the bill will also include e-cigarette nicotine-containing products and equipment.
Bill content:
Retail transactions in tobacco products, nicotine-containing products and hookah are prohibited in commercial places, markets, exhibitions, through mobile sales, remote sales, vending machines and other means not specified in Parts 1 and 2, except in the circumstances specified in Part 2.
Changed: Device for adding and consuming nicotine-containing products after hookah.
Two supreme interpretations:
The content includes the circulation and trade methods specified in Articles 1-2, and the new content includes nicotine-containing products and equipment. At the same time, the bill explicitly prohibits all sales of nicotine products that are not within the scope of Articles 1-2, including illegal online sales, illegal wholesale distribution, and other illegal retail activities.
The change to this article is mainly to limit the currente-cigarette marketA large number of illegal circulation have included the sale of e-cigarettes within the scope of the Basic Law on Federal Tobacco Regulation, providing a legal basis for subsequent law enforcement agencies to crack down on the illegal market for e-cigarettes.
Bill content:
#p#Pagination Title #e#It is prohibited to display and display tobacco products or products containing nicotine in retail and commercial establishments of tobacco products or products containing nicotine, except as provided in paragraph 5 of this article.
Changes: Add "hookah and equipment used to consume nicotine-containing products" after "nicotine-containing products", and add "hookah and equipment used to consume nicotine-containing products" after "nicotine-containing products".
Two supreme interpretations:
The content of this article is the business requirements for the sale of tobacco products and nicotine products stipulated in the Russian Federal Law N15-FZ, which prohibits the public display and display of related products. The bill is changed to include hookah and nicotine-consuming products and equipment. This means that in the future, the sales of e-cigarettes and hookah will also be prohibited from public display and display.
At present, most of the consumer groups of e-cigarettes are young people, with novel shapes and bright colors.e-cigarette productsVery popular.
The problem of smoking e-cigarettes among Russian teenagers is serious. At the same time, due to the huge scale of the illegal market for e-cigarettes in Russia, a large number of non-compliant products with excessive additive ingredients are circulating in the market, causing great harm to consumers 'health.
Since February this year, there have been several accidents involving teenagers who have died or were seriously injured by smoking e-cigarettes in Russia, which has aroused public anger in Russia and enabled the proposal to gain strong support from most members of parliament.
Bill content:
Regarding information on tobacco products or products with nicotine content, and hookah, when conducting retail transactions, sellers should, in accordance with the provisions of the Consumer Rights Protection Law of The Russian Federation, list the tobacco products or nicotine-containing products, and hookah sold in alphabetical order in the sales area of commercial establishments in black letters and white background, indicating the price of the products sold, and no images or drawings shall be used. After customers have learned of the list of tobacco products or nicotine-content products or hookah products sold and meet the requirements of Section 20 of this Federal Act, they may display tobacco products or nicotine-content products or hookah products at commercial premises at the customer's request.
Changes: Add "and equipment used to consume nicotine-containing products" after the word "hookah", and add "and equipment used to consume nicotine-containing products" after the word "hookah".
Two supreme interpretations:
#p#Pagination Title #e#
The content of this article is related to the content of Article 4, which stipulates how to sell tobacco products that cannot be publicly displayed."In the sales area of commercial establishments, the tobacco products sold are listed in alphabetical order in black letters and white background. Nicotine products indicate the price of the products sold, and no images or drawings shall be used." The new content of the bill adds "consumption of nicotine-containing products" to it.
This is a closed sales method similar to cigarettes after banning the visual sales of e-cigarettes, so as to prevent e-cigarette products from using younger packaging shapes to attract young people to buy.
