Vapor factoryYootech ：Information interpretation of State Tobacco Monopoly Admin

Recently, the official website of the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration released a notice entitled "The State Tobacco Monopoly Administration continues to promote the development of the E-cigarette Industry in an orderly manner under the rule of law", revealing some important information and details. Yunchuang Hi-tech hereby makes an interpretation of some of the contents.

The following is the full text of the notice:

Recently, the national tobacco monopoly bureau in accordance with the order issued by a number of electronic cigarette related production tobacco monopoly production enterprise license, change a batch of electronic cigarette wholesale tobacco monopoly wholesale enterprise license, the department of tobacco monopoly administration at various levels shall, in accordance with the order issued by a group of electronic cigarette retail market main body tobacco monopoly retail licenses. A number of e-cigarette products that meet the national standard of E-cigarette have passed the technical evaluation successively. On June 15, 2022, the national unified e-cigarette Trading management Platform (hereinafter referred to as the "trading Platform") was officially put into operation. Up to now, most of the certified e-cigarette related manufacturers, e-cigarette wholesale enterprises and e-cigarette retailers have completed membership registration on the trading platform... The administrative licensing, technical review and trading platform operation of e-cigarettes are being carried out in an orderly manner. The State Tobacco Monopoly Administration will continue to implement the Decision of The State Council on Revising the Regulations on the Implementation of the Law of the People's Republic of China on Tobacco Monopoly, Measures for the Administration of E-Cigarettes, national standards for E-Cigarettes and relevant supporting policies, and promote the legalization and standardization of the development of the e-cigarette industry centering on the following key tasks.

Cloud chuang High-tech interpretation: the sale of national standard products on the trading platform is rapidly advancing.

First, about technical review. According to the Implementation Rules for the Technical Evaluation of E-cigarette Products and instructions for the Technical Evaluation of E-cigarette Products, provincial tobacco monopoly administrative departments continue to timely guide e-cigarette manufacturers to do a good job in the "three synchronization" work. Product technical evaluation institutions continue to guide service electronic cigarette production enterprise synchronization in product technical review material review, synchronization, carry out product inspection, synchronous review of products, to provide "electronic cigarettes" national standard of tobacco flavor samples for reference, to guide enterprises to speed up the product, and make a line guidance services. According to the requirements of "three synchronizations" of technical review, e-cigarette manufacturers should timely submit relevant application materials for technical review, submit physical samples for inspection and review, and do a good job in the correction of relevant materials and products within the specified time.

Ii. Administrative license. In accordance with the relevant "about the electronic cigarette production enterprises issued by the tobacco monopoly production enterprise licence work guidance of" about electronic cigarette wholesale enterprise layout guidance "on the electronic cigarette retail outlets layout and license management guidance, such as regulation, the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration continue to plan as a whole to a production license application of electronic cigarette related to scheduling production enterprise, Provincial tobacco monopoly administrative departments continue to inform and guide e-cigarette manufacturers in a timely manner to prepare materials for administrative licenses, provide policy consulting services, reasonably arrange on-site verification, and timely notify qualified enterprises to submit formal applications for production licenses. At the same time, we will continue to provide services for e-cigarette retailers to issue tobacco monopoly retail licenses.

Yunchuang High-tech interpretation: the prohibition of retail license application on June 15 has occurred in all parts of the country, this information makes it clear that the application can continue until September 30.

Iii. National standards for E-cigarettes. Banning flavored e-cigarettes is one of the important measures to protect minors from the harm of e-cigarettes. The National standard on E-cigarettes clearly stipulates that e-cigarette products should not induce minors, and should not make the characteristic flavor of products show other flavors except tobacco. People from all walks of life have paid close attention to and generally supported this. The national standard for e-cigarettes was officially released on April 8, 2022, and will be implemented on October 1, 2022, giving e-cigarette manufacturers sufficient transition period. E-cigarette manufacturers should strictly implement the "e-cigarette" national standard, carry out product compliance design and complete product transformation as soon as possible. After the transitional period, products that fail to pass the technical evaluation shall not be marketed and sold in China.

Yunchuang High-tech interpretation: e-cigarette manufacturers should stop the production of non-national standards as soon as possible.

Iv. Trading platform. At present, the trading platform has been officially put into operation. According to the Regulations on the Administration of E-Cigarette Trading (Trial) and other regulations, all kinds of e-cigarette market entities that have obtained or are about to obtain certificates should register as members on the trading platform one after another once they have obtained the certificates. The trading and export filing of nicotine raw materials, nicotine and aerosol for e-cigarette products of e-cigarette related manufacturers that have obtained or will soon be obtained, and the export filing of e-cigarette products shall be gradually carried out on the trading platform. E-cigarette manufacturers whose products have already passed or will soon pass the technical evaluation shall make relevant preparations and gradually trade on the trading platform when conditions are met. The specific time will be notified later. Tobacco monopoly administrative departments at all levels should strengthen their service awareness and continue to guide local e-cigarette market players to take the initiative to complete membership registration on the trading platform and do relevant work well.

Cloud chuang gao Ke interpretation: in view of the situation that some shopkeepers across the country have difficulty in handling certificates before, the introduction of this provision is conducive to the smooth handling of certificates by shopkeepers across the country.

5. Market regulation. Tobacco monopoly administrative departments at all levels will continue to strengthen market supervision in accordance with the law, focusing on urging e-cigarette retailers to fulfill the regulatory requirements such as identity certificate verification and the removal of e-cigarette advertisements, so as to further understand the status of the e-cigarette market, and grasp the operation information of e-cigarette products such as market price, inventory and moving pin. E-cigarette retailers should strictly follow e-cigarette regulatory policies, not sell e-cigarettes to minors, not publish e-cigarette advertisements, implement warning signs, and not engage in exclusive business activities.

Cloud Chuang High-tech interpretation:

This is the first time that the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration has explicitly required e-cigarette retailers not to publish e-cigarette advertisements, which may be related to the e-cigarette advertisements posted by some e-cigarette retailers on wechat, moments and other online channels. Recently, wechat also launched a crackdown on e-cigarette retailers' publication and sales in moments.

Yunchuang Gaoke calls on all retailers to delete e-cigarette advertisements in moments as soon as possible and comply with regulations as soon as possible. Some store owners have been punished by the local market supervision bureau for Posting information about e-cigarette sales and promotion on wechat moments. Promote the rapid development of the industry together!