New rules have been introduced in Portugal for tobacco sales. Namely, the tobacco traceability system, from May 20, 2024, will apply to all tobacco products provided for in Law No. 37/2007, of August 14. Therefore, similar to what is currently happening with cigarettes and rolling tobacco, the tobacco traceability system will make it possible to monitor the movements of other tobacco products (locations), namely cigars and cigarillos, heated tobacco, chewing tobacco, pipe tobacco, hookah tobacco, and tobacco leaves intended for sale to the public.
Tobacco sales in Portugal: new obligations from May 20, 2024
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Author: Kristina Dosen
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Also, more rules have been introduced:
- All individual packaging of tobacco products produced in the European Union (EU) or marketed in the EU will have to bear a unique identifier (with predefined information on the date and place of manufacture, its destination, etc.);
- Their movements will be recorded throughout the supply chain (from the manufacturer or importer to the last economic operator before the first retail establishment).
In turn, the security element will also apply to these tobacco products, which requires that individual packaging of tobacco products marketed in the EU be marked with a tamper-proof security element made up of visible and invisible elements, which will allow consumers and authorities to verify whether the product is authentic or not. In the case of tobacco products sold in the national territory, the special stamp provided for in Ordinance No. 119/2019, of April 22nd, and the stamp provided for in Ordinance No. 224/2019, of July 18th, As is currently the case with cigarettes and rolling tobacco, in order to apply the traceability system to other tobacco products, it is necessary that all economic operators involved in trade (including manufacturing, import, export, and distribution) of the aforementioned products in national territory are registered on the Tobacco Traceability Portal (https://rastreabilidadetabaco.incm.pt/pt).
Therefore, economic operators who have not yet completed the aforementioned registration must do so by May 19, 2024 at the latest, in order to be granted the: economic operator identifier code (EOID); installation identifier code(s) for the factory, warehouse, or retail establishment (FID); and manufacturing machine identifier code(s) (MID), in the case of a manufacturer. If businesses are economic operators involved in the tobacco product supply chain and have not registered on the Tobacco Traceability Portal by May 19, 2024, they will no longer be able to carry out this activity.
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