Tobacco Products Directive

The Tobacco Products Directive (2014/40/EU) aims to improve the functioning of the internal market for tobacco and related products in the EU, while ensuring a high level of health protection for European citizens. These new rules consist of new and strengthened rules on how tobacco products can be manufactured, presented, and sold, as well as new provisions for products that were not specifically regulated so far, including e-cigarettes and herbal products for smoking and play a vital role in amplifying and consolidating the progress of the anti-tobacco momentum evidenced by falling smoking rates made to date. Subsidiary Legislation 315.10, the Manufacture, Presentation and Sale of Tobacco and Related Products Regulations, 2016, transpose this directive into Maltese legislation.