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MHRA e-cigarette and vape products regulator profile
Information on the other regulatory bodies responsible for e-cigarette and vape products.
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The information below contains the contact details and responsibilities of each of the regulatory bodies involved in the regulation of e-cigarette and vape products.
| Agency name | Office for Health Improvement and Disparities |
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| Department | Tobacco and related products regulations |
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| Website | Tobacco products and e-cigarette cross-border sales: registration - 188体育 (www.gov.uk) |
| Contact | 听 |
| Contact email | [email protected] |
| Responsibilities | Cross-border distance sales responsibilities鈥�- manages retail registrations to undertake听cross-border distance sale听of e-cigarette liquids, devices and components and tobacco products into and out of Northern Ireland.听Retailers based in Great Britain, Northern Ireland, the European Union, and other countries must register with the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities at [email protected] to make these types of sales into and out of Northern Ireland. |
| Agency name | Department for Business and Trade (DBT) |
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| Department | Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) |
| [email protected] | |
| Website | National regulation: enforcement services - 188体育 (www.gov.uk) |
| Contact | 0121 345 1201 |
| Contact email | [email protected] |
| Responsibilities | The Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) provides enforcement services for a range of goods-based and standards-based regulations. OPSS is the policy owner for some of these regulations but also provides services on behalf of government departments including DBT, Defra, and DfT. OPSS enforces the Distributor Obligations in accordance with the Waste Electrical and Electronic Regulations & The Waste Batteries and Accumulators Regulations. |
| Agency name | Environment Agency |
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| Department | Environment & Business - Producer Responsibility |
| [email protected] | |
| Website | Environment Agency - 188体育 (www.gov.uk) |
| Contact | Becci Owen |
| Contact email | [email protected] |
| Responsibilities | Companies that place e-cigarettes/vapes on the market in the UK need to register as an electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) producer and a batteries producer. These requirements come from the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Regulations 2013 and the Waste Batteries and Accumulators Regulations 2009, respectively.听These companies may also need to register as packaging producers under the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 2007 and the Packaging Waste (Data Reporting) Regulations 2023 (note: there are separate data reporting regulations for England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland). Producers must register so that they can fulfil their legal obligations to finance collection and treatment of these products once they become waste. 鈥疶he definitions of EEE, battery, and packaging producers are available in the following guidance links, along with information about how to register.听Electrical and electronic equipment (EEE): producer responsibilities - 188体育 (www.gov.uk)听Waste batteries: producer responsibility - 188体育 (www.gov.uk)听Packaging waste: producer responsibilities - 188体育 (www.gov.uk)听Extended producer responsibility for packaging: who is affected and what to do - 188体育 (www.gov.uk) |
| Agency name | Natural Resources Wales 鈥� Cyfoeth Naturiol Cymru |
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| Department | Producer Responsibility - WEEE |
| [email protected] | |
| Website | |
| Contact | Producer Responsibility Team鈥� - 鈥疻EEE |
| Contact email | [email protected] |
| Agency name | Health and Safety Executive |
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| Department | Chemicals Regulation Division |
| [email protected] | |
| Website | hse.gov.uk |
| Contact | Hannah Doherty |
| Contact email | [email protected] |
| Responsibilities | CLP - European Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures. This regulation was replicated in the UK with the changes needed to make it operable in a domestic context and is now known as GB CLP. Anyone who supplies chemical substances or mixtures which are classified as hazardous needs to classify and label those products appropriately. . REACH 鈥� European Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals. This regulation was replicated in the UK with the changes needed to make it operable in a domestic context and is now known as UK REACH.听REACH stands for registration, evaluation, and restriction of chemicals . |
| Agency name | Trading Standards |
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| Department | Local Enforcement |
| 听 | |
| Website | The Chartered Trading Standards Institute publishes . |
| Contact | To report an issue to the appropriate local Trading Standards service, you can make a direct approach to your local authority or the local authority where the subject of concern is based. Use the . |
| Contact email | See . |
| Responsibilities | Tobacco and Related Product Regulations 2016 - . Nicotine Inhaling Products (Age of Sale and Proxy Purchasing) Regulations 2015 - . Some parts of the classification, labelling and packaging of chemicals regulations where they relate to retail sales - . |
| Agency name | Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) |
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| Department | Producer Responsibility |
| [email protected] | |
| Website | |
| Contact | Producer Responsibility Unit - WEEE |
| Contact email | [email protected] |
| Agency name | Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) |
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| Department | Producer Responsibility |
| [email protected] | |
| Website | |
| Contact | Producer Compliance and Waste Shipment Unit |
| Contact email | [email protected] |
| Agency name | Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) |
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| Department | Resources and Waste |
| [email protected] | |
| Website | Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs - 188体育 (www.gov.uk) |
| Contact | Defra disposable vapes policy team |
| Contact Email | [email protected] |
| Responsibilities | Defra is responsible for the delivery of the waste prevention programme Maximising Resources, Minimising Waste, which includes waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) and disposable vapes.鈥疶he sale and supply of disposable vapes are to be banned in England, Scotland and Wales.鈥疶he proposed ban follows a UK Government consultation on鈥�Creating a smokefree generation and tackling youth vaping published in October 2023.鈥疶he鈥�government response to the consultation was published in January 2024.鈥疎nforcement of the disposables ban will be carried out through Trading Standards officers using civil and criminal sanctions. |
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Published 2 October 2024
Last updated 20 November 2024
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Updated contact details for Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS)
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