The Ministry of Industry and Trade will oblige manufacturers to label electronic cigarettes

This is due to the fact that the market is flooded with counterfeit goods.

Mandatory labeling of electronic cigarettes and vape liquids will appear this year. The Ministry of Industry and Trade decided to complete the experiment on applying special codes to nicotine-containing products early.

The department has prepared the necessary amendments to the resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers. The experiment on marking electronic nicotine delivery vehicles was calculated until the end of February 2023. We are talking about electronic cigarettes, capsules, liquid cartridges and disposable vapes. However, as the developers of the amendments write in the explanatory note, they were flooded with letters by the manufacturers and distributors of electronic cigarettes and vapes themselves. Surprisingly, businessmen asked not to cancel the labeling, but to quickly complete the experiment and make it a universal duty. The reason is that the market is flooded with counterfeit goods. For the sake of this, the officials decided to announce the end of the trial stage of marking as early as November 1 this year. According to the Ministry of Industry and Trade, sales of electronic cigarettes and refill liquids reached 37.5 billion rubles. Annually

in Russia, more than 67 million units and 9-10 thousand liters of liquid for refilling electronic cigarettes are sold. According to the agency, the introduction of mandatory labeling by means of identifying liquids will be the only effective way to promptly resolve the issue of identifying and suppressing the illegal circulation of nicotine-containing products.

Published in the newspaper “Moskovsky Komsomolets” No. 28843 dated August 10, 2022

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Electronic cigarettes will be marked with QR codes