Requirements on herbal products for smoking

Herbal product for smoking that is available to consumers on the Swedish market must also carry health warnings on its packages.

Excise duty

If you have questions about excise duty in regards to herbal products for smoking, please contact the Swedish Tax Agency.

Swedish Tax Agency (skatteverket.se)

Reporting of ingredients

As a manufacturer or importer of herbal products for smoking you are required to submit the reporting of ingredients of products to us. This is required for herbal products for smoking that are available to consumers in Sweden.

• If the manufacturer is established in the EU, it is primarily the manufacturer who is obliged to report the information.
• If the manufacturer is established in a country that is not a member of the EU or the EEA (European Economic Area), but the importer is established in the EU, it is primarily the importer who is required to report the information.
• If both the manufacturer and the importer are established in a country that is not a member of the EU or the EEA, they are jointly obliged to report the information.

The submission must include a list of all ingredients, and quantities thereof, that are used in the manufacture of such products by brand name and type. You must also inform us when the composition of a product is modified in a way that changes previous submitted information.

The submission must be submitted via EU-CEG six weeks prior to the placing on the Swedish market of a new or modified herbal product for smoking. When you no longer provide a product in Sweden, remember to withdraw its Swedish product presentation from the EU-CEG.

Submitter ID and EU-CEG

You need an EU Login account and an EU-CEG Submitter ID in order to report ingredients of herbal products for smoking via EU-CEG to us. You apply for an EU-CEG Submitter ID on the European Commission website EU Common Entry Gate (EU-CEG).

• EU Login (webgate.ec.europa.eu)
• EU Common Entry Gate (EU-CEG) (health.ec.europa.eu)
• EU-CEG Industry Stakeholders (circabc.europa.eu)

Accurate submitter details

It is important that the submitter details in EU-CEG are complete and accurate, such as e-mail address and postal address. We will use this information in our communication with you.

Confidential data

You have the possibility in your submission to mark all information that you consider to be a trade secret or otherwise confidential. You must upon our request, duly justify these claims.

Publicly available information on herbal products for smoking

Information that is not confidential about submitted herbal products for smoking is displayed in the list:

Publicly available information on herbal products for smoking

• Presented in the list are products that consumers can expect to find on the Swedish market. Meaning products that were reported at least six weeks ago, whose submitted launch date has passed and submitted withdrawal date has not passed.
• The list only contains information about reported products. We have not verified that these products meet all legal requirements.
• Published ingredients per product is not a complete declaration of all the ingredients in the product. Ingredients that make up a very small amount of the product are considered to be trade secrets and are not public.
• The list is updated once a month. This may cause some delay before newly launched products are visible in the list, and before products that have been withdrawn from the Swedish market are removed from the list.

Labelling requirements

The labelling requirements cover packaging. Packaging includes:

• Unit packet, the smallest individual packaging of an herbal product for smoking that is available on the market.
• Outside packaging, any packaging in which an herbal product for smoking are available on the market and which includes a unit packet or an aggregation of unit packets; transparent wrappers are not regarded as outside packaging.

Herbal products for smoking that are available to consumers on the Swedish market must carry health warnings on its packages. You as a manufacturer or importer are responsible for ensuring that the packet carries correct health warnings. There are also some elements or features that may not be presented on the packaging of herbal products for smoking, prohibited product presentation.

Health warnings

Each packaging of herbal products for smoking must carry the following health warning in Swedish, note that the health warning ends with a period:

Att röka denna produkt skadar din hälsa.

The health warning must:

• be printed on the front and back external surface of the unit packet and on any outside packaging,
• cover 30 percent of the area of the corresponding surface of the unit packet and of any outside packaging,
• be printed in black Helvetica bold type on a white background,
• use the font size that ensures that the text occupies the greatest possible proportion of the surface reserved for the health warning, and
• be at the centre of the surface reserved for them, and on cuboid packets and any outside packaging they must be parallel to the lateral edge of the unit packet or of the outside packaging.

Prohibited product presentation

Packaging of herbal products for smoking must not include any elements or features that:

• Suggests that a particular product is less harmful than other such products.
• Information about the nicotine, tar or carbon monoxide content of the product.
• Resembles a food product.
• Resembles a cosmetic product.