2018/0092/CZ
EC/EFTA
CZ Czech Republic
  • C50A - Foodstuffs
2018-06-08
2018-03-14
Tobacco products
Draft implementing decree on tobacco labels

The draft implementing legislation replaces Implementing Decree No 467/2003 on the use of tobacco labels to mark tobacco products, as amended. The subject matter of the legislative proposal is a modification of the existing technical and operational aspects of labelling tobacco products using a tobacco label. This concerns, in particular, how the tobacco label is placed on unit packets. Given that on 19 May 2019 the transitional period during which the tobacco label may be placed above the combined health warning on the top edge of the back surface of hard unit packets of cigarettes will expire, it will no longer be possible to use the tobacco label in the established manner. For this reason, with a view to providing room for the tobacco label, the requirement that the tobacco label must be damaged when the unit packet is opened is being waived and it is proposed that the technical parameters of the tobacco label be modified, i.e. by changing its dimensions and design. The draft also concerns the details of how tobacco labels are ordered (model form for ordering tobacco labels) and collected, details of record-keeping (model form for record-keeping of tobacco labels), tobacco label inventories and how damaged tobacco labels are returned.

Keywords: tobacco products, marking with tobacco labels, excise duty on tobacco products, cigarettes, smoking tobacco, cigars