COMMENTS: The Regulation of the General Law on Tobacco Control (June 30, 2009) regulates the General Law on Tobacco Control and covers many aspects of tobacco control, including, but not limited to, establishing enforcement authorities and sanctions, restrictions on public smoking, and tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship.
COMMENTS: This Agreement, dated December 24, 2009, establishes the parameters of health warnings, including their content, size, and locations on tobacco product packages and external packaging and labeling. These provisions resulted from an agreement between the Ministry of Health and the tobacco industry, and became binding once the Agreement went into effect (nine months from publication in the Official Gazette). The warnings in this Agreement were in effect from September 24, 2010 through September 23, 2011.
COMMENTS: This Agreement, dated May 9, 2011, amends the previous agreement published in the Diario Oficial on December 24, 2010. The primary amendment was an updated set of pictorial warnings to be displayed on smoked tobacco product packages. The text warnings that must appear on smokeless tobacco products remain largely unchanged. The warnings in this Agreement were in effect from September 24, 2011 through September 23, 2012.
COMMENTS: This Agreement, dated July 23, 2012, establishes a new set of pictorial health warnings to be displayed on smoked tobacco product packages. The text warnings that must appear on smokeless tobacco products remain unchanged. The warnings in this Agreement were in effect from September 24, 2012 through March 23, 2013.
COMMENTS: This order clarifies information in the Ministry of Health Agreement on Health Messages and Information to Appear on Packaging and Labeling, starting on March 24, 2013.
COMMENTS: This Agreement, dated November 30, 2012, establishes a new set of health warnings to be displayed on both smoked and smokeless tobacco product packages. The warnings in this Agreement were in effect from March 24, 2013 through September 23, 2013.
COMMENTS: This Agreement, dated January 3, 2014, establishes a new set of health warnings to be displayed on both smoked and smokeless tobacco product packages. The warnings in this Agreement were in effect from March 24, 2014 through September 23, 2014.
COMMENTS: This Agreement, dated August 18, 2014, establishes a new set of health warnings to be displayed on both smoked and smokeless tobacco product packages. The warnings in this Agreement were in effect from September 24, 2014 to March 23, 2015.
COMMENTS: This Agreement, dated March 2, 2015, establishes a new set of health warnings to be displayed on both smoked and smokeless tobacco product packages. The warnings in this Agreement were in effect from March 24, 2015 to March 23, 2016.
COMMENTS: This Agreement, dated March 23, 2016, establishes a new set of health warnings to be displayed on both smoked and smokeless tobacco product packages from March 24, 2016 to November 30, 2017.
COMMENTS: This Agreement, dated November 17, 2017, establishes a new set of health warnings to be displayed on both smoked and smokeless tobacco product packages from December 1, 2017 to May 31, 2020.
COMMENTS: The Decree Amending the Tariff of the Law on General Taxes on Imports and Exports introduces a new tariff classification under which the importation of e-cigarettes (electronic nicotine delivery systems, or ENDS), electronic non-nicotine delivery systems (ENNDS), and heated tobacco products is prohibited.
COMMENTS: The General Law on Tobacco Control (August 28, 2008) is an omnibus law covering restrictions on public smoking; tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship; tobacco products packaging and labeling; and sanctions, among other things.