Wholesalers are urged to ensure their retail customers are aware that the Standardised Packaging of Tobacco Regulations and Tobacco Products Directive’s sell through period has ended and from today – May 20 – they must ensure that all stock is compliant with the new regulations.

This means that they must only sell tobacco with standardised packaging, packs of 20, a minimum weight of 30g RYO tobacco and unflavoured products, excluding menthol cigarettes.

The cut-off period also applies to e­cigarettes so retailers must only sell e­cigs with a health warning, a maximum of 20mg/ml of nicotine unless they are licensed as medicines, refills with a maximum size of 10ml and disposable e­cigs, cartridges and tanks with a maximum size of 2ml.

Our colleagues at the SGF have published A Guide to New Regulations: Nicotine Vapour Product and Tobacco Compliance in Scotland which can be downloaded here.