State Tobacco Monopoly Administration Holds Press Briefing on Fully Strengthening E-Cigarette Regula
Note: On May 22, 2023, the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration will comprehensively strengthen the measures in accordance with the lawe-cigarettesThe supervisor held a press conference to introduce the relevant situation and answer questions of concern to reporters.
The State Tobacco Monopoly Administration comprehensively strengthens the supervision of e-cigarettes in accordance with the law
Since November 10, 2021, the "Decision of the State Council on Amending the Implementation Regulations of the Tobacco Monopoly Law of the People's Republic of China"
Strengthen the supervision and law enforcement of e-cigarettes in accordance with the law. In order to safeguard the health and safety of the people, protect the legitimate rights and interests of e-cigarette operators and consumers, and better implement regulatory requirements, the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration has set a transition period that ends on September 30, 2022 after the State Council's Decision was promulgated and implemented. Since e-cigarettes entered normal supervision on October 1, 2022, tobacco monopoly bureaus at all levels have resolutely shouldered the responsibility of e-cigarette supervision, actively guided e-cigarette business entities to operate legally, and severely cracked down on illegal activities of e-cigarettes. So far, a total of 1848 administrative penalty cases of various types of e-cigarettes have been investigated and dealt with across the country, and 398 criminal cases involving e-cigarettes have been investigated and dealt with jointly with the public security department.the cartridge2.94 million, 730,000 e-smoking sets, 3.57 million disposable e-cigarettes, 9.8 tons of nicotine and atomized substances, more than 10 tons of accessories, 25 counterfeit manufacturing dens and 36 finished product warehouses were destroyed, involving an amount of approximately 2.1 billion yuan and arrested 1323 people. In particular, in order to protect the physical and mental health of minors, special treatment of non-national standard flavored e-cigarettes such as "milk tea cups" and "cola cans" was organized. A total of 308,000 law enforcement inspectors were dispatched, 93,600 e-cigarette outlets were inspected, and 775 cases were investigated, and 1.365 million physical objects were seized, involving a total amount of 674 million yuan. Hubei successfully handled criminal cases involving infringement of intellectual property rights on e-cigarettes; the "11.04" case in Jining, Shandong Province successfully detected the first case of "milk tea cups" and "cola cans" that directly traced the source of production; the "2.03" case in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province destroyed production, warehousing and sales There were 7 dens, with a single case value of 376 million yuan; Shenzhen completed its first criminal case case involving illegal operation of e-cigarettes, forming a strong deterrent to criminals.
Continue to promote the supervision and regulation of e-cigarette supervisione-cigarette marketSpecial inspection of order. In order to ensure the implementation of the e-cigarette supervision system and coordinate the promotion of the legalization and standardized governance of the e-cigarette industry, the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration systematically planned and unified arrangements, and continued to carry out special inspections to supervise e-cigarette supervision and standardize the order of the e-cigarette market. The supervision of e-cigarette supervision focuses on the implementation of e-cigarette supervision decisions and arrangements by tobacco monopoly bureaus at all levels. From the end of February to mid-to-late March 2023, the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration formed 4 inspection teams to conduct inspections in 16 provinces and 27 cities based on 6 transition periods, 17 normalized key supervision tasks and 62 inspection contents. On-site inspections were conducted. The inspection found that tobacco monopoly bureaus at all levels resolutely implemented the "Decision" of the State Council, fully performed their e-cigarette supervision responsibilities in accordance with the law, adhered to joint governance and close collaboration, established institutional mechanisms, and gathered joint efforts. The e-cigarette supervision work system was basically established. The implementation of the cigarette supervision system, and the e-cigarette supervision and governance were vigorously and orderly promoted. The special inspection to standardize the order of the e-cigarette market focuses on the compliance of e-cigarette business entities with laws, regulations and regulatory policies. From March 1 to April 25, 2023, tobacco monopoly bureaus at all levels dispatched a total of 106,000 people and formed 2799 inspection teams to conduct on-site inspections of e-cigarette related production enterprises, wholesale enterprises, retail entities, etc., comprehensively covering the e-cigarette industry. Certified and unlicensed cigarette nicotine companies, aerosol companies,e-cigarette productsThere are a total of 48265 seven types of business entities, including production enterprises, agent processing enterprises, brand holding enterprises, wholesale enterprises, and retailers; it comprehensively covers all links of the entire chain of e-cigarette raw material supply, production and manufacturing, wholesale circulation, and product retail; it comprehensively covers the country 33 provincial-level Tobacco Monopoly Administration jurisdictions; comprehensively covers various information clues seized by early supervision and outstanding issues strongly reflected by the public. Work inspections and special inspections insist on promoting reform through inspection, promoting regulations through inspection, and promoting governance through inspection, focusing on judging policy adaptability and weak links in supervision, and consolidating the institutional foundation of normalized supervision; focusing on guiding and improving the "one enterprise (household)" supervision ledger, implementing household registration grid management of business entities, consolidating the information foundation for normalized supervision; Focus on strengthening policy publicity, compliance guidance, and management services for production and retail entities, and consolidating the ideological foundation of normalized supervision; Focus on broadening communication channels with business entities, promoting the construction of positive guidance and positive interaction and pro-Qing political and business relations, and consolidating the recognition foundation for normalized supervision. Through continuous work inspections and special inspections, comprehensive management effects such as supervising the rectification of problems, standardizing market order, guiding legal operations, cracking down on illegal activities, and improving regulatory capabilities have been achieved.# p#pagination title #e#
Solidly promote joint governance of the e-cigarette market. In the process of promoting the supervision of e-cigarettes, the tobacco department and the public security, municipal supervision, customs, postal services, taxation, education and other departments have worked together to jointly manage and work together. In particular, the public security department organized tobacco, municipal supervision, education and other departments to jointly carry out special work to clean up and rectify the e-cigarette market, and severely cracked down on illegal and criminal activities such as the production and sales of "high-end e-cigarettes" and counterfeit e-cigarettes; The State Administration for Market Regulation and the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration jointly issued two notices, jointly carrying out special inspection operations on the e-cigarette market and special operations on "Protecting Growth", issuing national mandatory standards for e-cigarettes, guiding the construction of e-cigarette quality inspection capabilities, and promoting the elimination of unlicensed e-cigarette business entities and clearing up illegal information on Internet platforms; The Ministry of Finance, the State Administration of Taxation, the China Securities Regulatory Commission, the General Administration of Customs, the Post Bureau and other departments have efficiently formulated and issued policies such as e-cigarette consumption tax, pre-listing review of stocks of e-cigarette related enterprises, e-cigarette entry into the country, limited delivery, and limited carrying in other places; The education department actively carries out activities such as e-cigarette legal education and popular science publicity "entering the campus" and other activities. Authoritative mainstream media highly support, actively guide, and speak in the positive direction. The "Protect Growth" series of public welfare Short Video have been played more than 10 million times across the network. 46 mainstream media forwarded and became the main content of the "first lesson of school" broadcast in many places;"Combating Illegal Sales of Electronic Cigarettes on the Internet and Protecting Minors from Infringement" legal public service advertisements in the WeChat circle of friends effectively reached 4.9124 million users; Central media such as the People's Daily, Xinhua Agency, China Central Radio and Television Station, Economic Daily, People's Political Consultative Conference, Rule of Law Daily have focused on tobacco monopoly bureaus at all levels to crack down on illegal e-cigarettes such as "milk tea cups" and "coke cans" and make every effort to protect minors. Today's news on physical and mental health has gathered broad consensus to further strengthen the supervision of e-cigarettes.
Over the past year, e-cigarette supervision has achieved the work goal of "being able to manage and manage well" and has won widespread support and recognition from all walks of life. At present, there are still some lawless elements who are obsessed with greed and take risks, ignoring the physical and mental health of minors. Various non-national standard e-cigarette "new products" have been repeatedly banned."New platforms" such as e-commerce, Short Video, live broadcasts, and social networking have been renovated. The use of express logistics delivery "new channels" such as flash delivery, errands, and in-city distribution to circumvent e-cigarette supervision issues urgently needs to be regulated. In the next step, the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration will adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with China Characteristics for a New Era, resolutely implement the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, and take all efforts to protect people's health and safety as the starting point, further improve regulatory policies, standardize industrial operations, optimize management services, strengthen market supervision, prevent hidden risks, and continue to promote the legalization and standardization of governance in the e-cigarette industry.
The reporter asked: Since e-cigarette supervision entered the normalized stage, what measures has the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration taken to guide the orderly and smooth operation of the e-cigarette industry?
Answer: Since October 1, 2022, when e-cigarette supervision entered the normalization stage, tobacco monopoly bureaus at all levels have resolutely implemented the national legislative purpose of strengthening e-cigarette supervision, standardizing market order, ensuring people's health and safety, and promoting the legalization and standardization of industrial governance., continuously improve the operation supervision system, standardize the production and operation activities of various e-cigarette business entities, and promote the smooth and orderly operation of the e-cigarette industry chain.
The first is to continue to consolidate the foundation of the regulatory system.The "Measures for the Management of Electronic Cigarettes" was issued on March 11, 2022. After the mandatory national standard for "Electronic Cigarettes" was issued on April 8, 2022, the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration cooperated with relevant departments of the State Council to formulate and implement e-cigarette consumption tax policies, e-cigarette related enterprise stock listing pre-review mechanism, policies for carrying e-cigarettes into China, limited delivery, and limited carrying in other places, etc. There are a total of 61 supporting policies and implementation rules for e-cigarette supervision, which have initially formed a "1+2+N" e-cigarette supervision system based on the Tobacco Monopoly Law of the People's Republic of China "and its implementation regulations, based on the" Electronic Cigarette Management Measures "and the" Electronic Cigarette "national standards, and supported by multiple policy documents, laying a legal basis for e-cigarette supervision.
The second is to guide business entities to operate legally.Adhere to classified policies, strengthen management services for e-cigarette business entities, and effectively promote the source management of e-cigarette supervision work. Supervise e-cigarette business entities that have obtained tobacco monopoly licenses in accordance with the law to comprehensively carry out raw materials, processing, production and approval, wholesale and retail, import and export transactions and filings on the national unified e-cigarette trading and management platform, and organize tobacco monopoly bureaus at all levels to move government services to The front line of business entities, carry out targeted publicity and implementation of regulatory policies and business guidance, and enhance business entities 'compliance awareness and compliance capabilities. Continue to do a good job in managing the source of production enterprises, improve the channel service level of wholesale enterprises, and enhance the operating capabilities of retail business entities.# p#pagination title #e#
The third is to maintain the smooth operation of the industry.Implement the requirements of building a new development pattern, strictly control product quality and safety, strengthen the publicity and implementation of the national standard of "E-Cigarette", technical review, and product quality supervision and random inspection, improve product supply quality and supply capabilities; guide and serve e-cigarette export enterprises to comply with the law Carry out international business according to regulations and continuously improve the competitiveness of enterprises and products. Since the normalized supervision, the domestic e-cigarette industry has operated smoothly, and the main economic indicators of domestic and foreign trade are in normal conditions. Strengthen research on enterprise operation and management, adhere to problem-oriented, continuously improve relevant policies and measures in practice, enhance coordination, effectiveness, and unity, and further consolidate the institutional foundation. Make full use of government websites to respond to public messages, proactively respond to social concerns, and daily supervision and propaganda to actively carry out publicity and education and create a good business environment.
In the next step, the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration will continue to strengthen the supervision of the operation of e-cigarettes, study and judge the situation and tasks faced, adopt more targeted measures to solve existing problems, and fully implement the legal and standardized governance requirements of e-cigarettes.
Reporter's question: Protecting the healthy growth of minors has far-reaching implications and great responsibilities. What work has the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration done to protect minors from e-cigarettes? What results have been achieved? How will we continue to advance this work in the next step?
Answer: Protecting the physical and mental health of minors and protecting the legitimate rights and interests of minors is the fundamental purpose of the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of Minors. For a long time, the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration has attached great importance to the protection of minors and actively taken various effective measures to fully protect the physical and mental health of minors.
The first is to jointly issue a notice to cut off online sales channels.In 2018 and 2019, the Joint State Administration for Market Regulation issued the "Notice on Banning the Sale of E-Cigarettes to Minors" and "Notice on Further Protecting Minors from E-Cigarettes", urging e-cigarette production and sales companies or Individuals to close e-cigarette Internet sales websites or clients in a timely manner; urge e-commerce platforms to close e-cigarette shops in a timely manner and remove e-cigarette products in a timely manner; Urge e-cigarette production and sales companies or individuals to withdraw e-cigarette advertisements posted through the Internet. Major domestic e-commerce platforms have closed 1559 e-cigarette online stores and deleted more than 380,000 e-cigarette product links; major online search platforms have stopped e-cigarette advertising services, and major e-commerce platforms have banned e-cigarette related keyword searches and blocked e-cigarette advertising information; Social platforms are closede-cigarette enterprisesOfficially certified accounts and Short Video social applications block e-cigarette promotion videos, achieving effective rectification of key areas and weak links in selling e-cigarettes to minors.
The second is to carry out special actions to rectify illegal offline sales chaos.From July to September 2020 and from June to September 2021, the State Administration for Market Regulation jointly launched a special inspection operation on the e-cigarette market and a special operation to protect minors from e-cigarettes and "protect growth"; from February to 2022 In April, the Ministry of Public Security, the State Administration for Market Regulation, and the Ministry of Education jointly carried out special work to clean up and rectify the sale of e-cigarettes to minors and severely crack down on illegal crimes involving e-cigarettes; From the end of 2022 to the present, special control work has been carried out on illegal e-cigarettes such as "milk tea cups" and "coke cans", comprehensively clean up outlets and vending machines selling e-cigarettes around the campus, and vigorously rectify "online drainage, disguised sales", micro-commerce sales and use Short Video, self-media, and APP disguised advertising promotion and other prominent issues, and seriously investigate and deal with illegal activities of selling e-cigarettes to minors. In the above-mentioned special actions, a total of 1.638 million law enforcement personnel were dispatched across the country, more than 25,000 outlets selling e-cigarettes around primary and secondary schools and kindergartens, and nearly 1000 units of automatic e-cigarette equipment were cleared. More than 1100 cases of selling e-cigarettes to minors were investigated and dealt with. A fine of more than 3 million yuan was issued, successfully detecting the illegal addition of prohibited cannabinoids to e-cigarettes (commonly known as "Shangtou Electronic Cigarettes") There were more than 300 illegal and criminal cases, more than 2300 criminal suspects were arrested, and more than 1.3 million "milk tea cups" and "coke cans" were seized.
The third is to carry out publicity and education on legal popularization to build broad consensus in society.Planning and shooting three public welfare Short Video to protect minors from e-cigarettes and have been played more than 10 million times online. They were forwarded by many central and local media websites such as China Government. com, Sina. com, Netease News, etc., becoming the "first lesson in school" content in many places; produced and launched "Combating Illegal Sales of E-cigarettes on the Internet and Protecting Minors from Infringement" on the WeChat Circle of Friends, effectively reaching 4.91 million users; Conducted an online e-cigarette questionnaire survey for middle school students across the country, and recovered 2.01 million valid questionnaires; strengthened legal publicity and social publicity at outlets selling e-cigarettes by posting slogans, making display boards, signing proposals, pushing videos and information online, and campus presentations. Promote science popularization and enhance minors to consciously establish an awareness of identifying and resisting illegal e-cigarettes; Promote e-cigarette retailers to fully post warning signs for the protection of minors, implement express commitments and age verification measures, educate and guide e-cigarette practitioners to operate in accordance with laws and regulations, and actively participate in the protection of minors; promote the formation of tobacco, public security, market supervision, The joint supervision of education, health and other relevant departments will jointly create a good environment conducive to the healthy growth of minors.# p#pagination title #e#
In the next step, the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration will continue to clean up outlets selling e-cigarettes around campuses, strengthen the cleanup of illegal information related to e-cigarettes on the Internet, supervise Internet companies to implement independent cleanup mechanisms, and severely crack down on illegal activities such as selling e-cigarettes to minors. At the same time, we should strengthen publicity and education on legal popularization, enhance minors 'awareness of consciously resisting false propaganda and bad temptations, and create a good social environment that protects the healthy growth of young people.
The reporter asked: How does the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration coordinate the construction of the e-cigarette market supervision system and effectively promote the supervision of the e-cigarette market?
Answer: In recent years, in order to comprehensively strengthen the supervision of the e-cigarette market, the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration has actively built an e-cigarette market supervision system of "online cleanup, offline control, full-chain coverage, and joint governance", promoted supervision and law enforcement in accordance with the law, and achieved positive results.
The first is to strengthen the online handling of e-cigarette information.Clean up Internet e-cigarette sales and advertising clues, and issue various illegal links in various places; crack down on the use of e-commerce platforms to sell e-cigarette products, promote the removal of relevant products from platforms, and close illegal shops; supervise social platforms to implement independent clean-up mechanisms, issue contraband information and fraud crackdown announcements, and block accounts that publish illegal information; collect live e-cigarette sales clues, detect relevant cases, and effectively control the chaos of using Short videos platforms to sell e-cigarette products.
The second is to strengthen market supervision and management.Formulate, evaluate and revise the rational layout plan for e-cigarette retail outlets across the country, strictly control the addition of illegal e-cigarette business entities; issue the "Work Plan for the Normalized Market Supervision of E-Cigarettes", hold national e-cigarette supervision and law enforcement training, strengthen the construction of professional supervision teams, and guide Tobacco monopoly bureaus at all levels carry out supervision work; Deploy and carry out special actions to focus on investigating and handling cases of selling e-cigarettes to minors, focus on investigating and handling cases of illegal production and sale of non-national standard e-cigarettes such as "milk tea cups", and severely crack down on various illegal and criminal activities involving e-cigarettes.
The third is to focus on supervision of the entire chain。Continue to consolidate the "1+2+N" e-cigarette supervision system, covering e-cigarette administrative licensing, technical review, industrial layout, investment management, quality supervision, comprehensive supervision, etc.; do a good job in source management of production enterprises and crack down on illegal use of tobacco Monopoly products or waste to extract nicotine; guide wholesale enterprises to implement the industrial policy requirements for balanced total management of production and sales, and improve the service level of source organizations and retail business entities; Guide retail business entities to grasp consumption status and product characteristics, and carry out retail business activities in compliance with laws and regulations.
The fourth is to actively promote joint governance.Strengthen supervision and coordination with local party committees and governments, public security departments, municipal supervision departments and other departments to promote joint efforts and common governance. Jointly with the General Administration of Market Supervision issued two circulars prohibiting the sale of e-cigarettes to minors; jointly with the Ministry of Public Security, the General Administration of Market Supervision, the Ministry of Education and other departments to carry out the special work of cleaning up and rectifying the sale of e-cigarettes to minors and severely cracking down on illegal crimes involving e-cigarettes, jointly issued with the State Post Office a notice of limited delivery of e-cigarette products, etc., and jointly interviewed the delivery enterprises illegally transporting e-cigarettes; Cooperate with the General Administration of Customs to issue the Announcement on Matters Related to Taxation of Electronic Cigarettes to comprehensively standardize the production and operation activities of various electronic cigarette operators.
Overall, with the implementation of the e-cigarette regulatory system, the governance of the e-cigarette industry has achieved a fundamental transformation from "chaos to governance", fully entered the track of legalization and standardization, and has been fully recognized and widely supported by local governments, business entities, and the public. In the next step, the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration will conscientiously implement the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, continue to improve the e-cigarette market supervision system of "online clean-up, offline control, full-chain coverage, and joint governance", and strengthen the production, wholesale, retail of e-cigarettes., management of the entire chain of transportation, import and export, etc., comprehensively promote the supervision of e-cigarettes to achieve new progress and new results.
The reporter asked: How is the special inspection to regulate the order of the e-cigarette market organized and carried out? How will the problems found during the inspection be handled?
Answer: From March 1 to April 25, 2023, tobacco monopoly bureaus at all levels will conduct full-coverage special inspections on e-cigarette production enterprises, wholesale enterprises, retail entities, etc. to regulate the order of the e-cigarette market, and inspect a total of enterprises, retailers, etc. There are 48265 operating entities. This on-site inspection is a comprehensive inspection and confirmation of the operating status and law-abiding operation status of e-cigarette business entities grasped by tobacco monopoly bureaus at all levels. It is the largest national e-cigarette law enforcement with the largest scale, the widest coverage, and the largest number of efforts since e-cigarettes were introduced into supervision. inspection. The inspection work adheres to unified standards and specifications, the overall scheduling of work, the coordination and linkage of all parties, and the comprehensive application of results, achieving full coverage inspection of operating entities in the entire industry chain of "production, wholesale and retail". The inspection found that most e-cigarette-related production enterprises that have obtained tobacco monopoly licenses in accordance with the law basically operate in compliance with regulations, some enterprises have general violations of regulatory policies, and a few enterprises are suspected of violating laws and regulations. The vast majority of unlicensed production companies have stopped operating or switched production and transformation in accordance with the law, and some companies still have illegal and illegal situations such as illegally manufacturing and selling "milk tea cups" flavored e-cigarettes. The vast majority of retail entities operate legally and in compliance with regulations, but some retail entities have violated laws and regulations such as selling e-cigarettes to minors, purchasing goods through illegal channels, and selling "milk tea cups" flavored e-cigarettes. For licensed business entities suspected of violating laws and regulations, verification of illegal evidence and facts are being stepped up and administrative investigations are being promoted. Criminal cases are being cooperated with public security organs. For all licensed business entities that violate regulatory policies in general, guidance and supervision have been strengthened and rectification has been ordered within a time limit. For unlicensed production enterprises that illegally manufacture and sell e-cigarette products, aerosols, and nicotine for cigarettes, they have joined forces with the public security department and the municipal supervision department to shut down and clean up production sites and facilities. Those suspected of committing crimes are cooperating with the public security organs to strengthen case investigation. At the same time, enterprises that have suspended production but are suspected of resuming production have been included in the key monitoring targets of provincial tobacco monopoly bureaus in the later period, and the frequency of daily inspections has been increased.# p#pagination title #e#
In the next step, the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration will take this special inspection as an opportunity and breakthrough to do a good job in the "second half" of the special inspection. Urge tobacco monopoly bureaus at all levels to conduct special inspections to "look back", deal with them in accordance with laws and regulations, optimize the connection of executions, and coordinate law enforcement supervision, penalty handling, and license management to fundamentally solve outstanding problems that undermine the order of the e-cigarette market.
Reporter asked: my country's e-cigarette industry has obvious export-oriented characteristics. Please introduce the direction and focus of e-cigarette import and export trade supervision?
Answer: my country's e-cigarette industry has obvious export-oriented characteristics. Most of the e-cigarettes produced in China are sold overseas. With the orderly advancement of the legalization and standardization of the e-cigarette industry, driven by multiple factors such as the steady implementation of e-cigarette regulatory policies and measures, the active "going global" of certified e-cigarette-related production enterprises, and the stability of international market demand, e-Cigarette export trade continues to improve, showing a good trend of increasing quantity and quality. However, during the special inspection to regulate the order of the e-cigarette market, it was still found that some licensed enterprises lacked awareness of legal compliance, failed to fully implement various import and export trade supervision policies, and had problems such as incomplete grasp of the laws, regulations and standards of export destination countries (regions), and the quality control system for export products needed to be improved.
In the next step, the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration will focus on the implementation of the "Measures for the Management of Electronic Cigarettes" and relevant institutional documents to supervise licensed enterprises to fully implement import and export trade supervision policies. It is required that the packaging and domestic logistics activities of exported e-cigarette products should comply with relevant regulations. It is required that bonded imported nicotine and aerosolized substances for e-cigarettes, and exported e-cigarette products should be filed on the e-cigarette transaction management platform in a timely manner. Guided by strengthening the quality and safety of exported e-cigarette products, we will guide certified enterprises to build a quality and safety management system for exported e-cigarette products, strengthen services for enterprises 'ability to respond to international trade risks and challenges, guide the import and export trade of e-cigarettes to remain stable and healthy, and help enterprises "Go global" to develop.?
Reporter asked: How to strengthen supervision in the field of e-cigarette logistics delivery?
Answer: In accordance with the Tobacco Monopoly Law and its Implementation Regulations, the Measures for the Management of Electronic Cigarettes, the Detailed Rules for the Management of Electronic Cigarettes and other relevant regulations, the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration has implemented full-chain and all-round supervision of domestic and overseas logistics and delivery activities of electronic cigarettes.
The first is to improve supporting policies and measures for e-cigarette logistics delivery.Jointly with the State Post Bureau to issue an announcement on limited delivery of e-cigarette products, issued an announcement on limited transportation of e-cigarette products and other places, and cooperated with the General Administration of Customs to issue regulations on limited transportation of e-cigarette products and other places into China.
The second is to control the illegal transportation of e-cigarettes.Notify the State Post Bureau of the illegal situation of delivery enterprises, and interview with the State Post Bureau with relevant enterprises, urging them to strictly implement relevant delivery systems, independently handle sites that illegally transport e-cigarettes, rectify illegal and irregular issues involving e-cigarettes, and standardize e-cigarette delivery behavior.
The third is to strengthen the supervision of logistics activities in China for exported e-cigarette products.It is clarified that exported e-cigarette products should be transported directly from the warehouse of e-cigarette production enterprises to a place designated by the customs. If it is necessary to transfer from the warehouse of an e-cigarette production enterprise to other warehouses in the country, the shipper shall submit information such as the warehouse address and information such as the quantity and specifications of the transferred products to the Tobacco Monopoly Bureau where the warehouse is located. E-cigarette production enterprises shall complete export filing in a timely, accurate and complete manner on the national unified e-cigarette transaction management platform within 30 days after product export declaration is carried out in strict accordance with the requirements of the "Instructions for Electronic Cigarette Export Filing".
On May 11, 17 departments including the Post Office, the Central Political and Legal Commission, the Supreme People's Procuratorate, the Ministry of Public Security, and the Tobacco Bureau launched a special operation for safe delivery, including e-cigarettes in the catalog of key items in the special operation. In the next step, the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration will work with relevant departments to carry out cooperation on centralized rectification of potential safety hazards of e-cigarettes in delivery channels, investigate and punish illegal e-cigarettes by delivery companies in accordance with the law, and crack down on illegal e-cigarettes in the field of delivery, and strive to build a safety barrier for e-cigarette delivery channels., urge delivery companies to strictly implement the regulations on limited e-cigarette delivery management, investigate and deal with illegal and irregular e-cigarettes committed by delivery companies in accordance with the law, and curb the frequent trend of illegal and illegal delivery. Cut off the distribution channels for illegal e-cigarettes.
