Article 11
Article - Reports
- C251 - Packaging of tobacco products does not carry advertisement or promotion
- C252 - Misleading descriptors
- C253 - Health warnings required
- C254 - Health warnings approved by the competent national authority
- C255 - Rotated health warnings
- C256 - Large, clear, visible and legible health warnings
- C257 - Minimum requirements of warnings mandated by law
- C258 - Health warnings occupying no less than 30%
- C259 - Health warnings occupying 50% or more
- C2510 - Health warnings in the form of pictures or pictograms
- C2511 - Copyright to pictures owned by the Government
- C2512 - Granting of license for the use of health warnings
- C25131 - Constituent of tobacco products
- C25132 - Emissions of tobacco products
- C2514 - Warning required in the principal language(s) of the country
- C2515 - Progress made in implementing Article 11
- C2516 - Use of guidelines on Article 11
- C2517 - Details on the use of implementation guidelines
- C2518 - Additional information concerning packaging and labelling
Documents
- Tobacco industry tactics: packaging and labelling
- African Graphic Health Warnings Database
- WHO FCTC Graphic Health Warnings Database
Links
Article - Updates
- Oman: Tobacco products to be sold in plain packaging
- Ukraine: New provisions banning the use of tobacco and nicotine products in public places entered into force
- Ukraine: New provisions banning the use of tobacco and nicotine products in public places entered into force
- Georgia: regulations on plain packaging adopted
- Cabo Verde: strong Tobacco Control Law adopted
- Cabo Verde: strong Tobacco Control Law adopted
- New Zealand: New packaging regulations for vaping products
- New Zealand: New packaging regulations for vaping products
- Finland: strengthened regulation on packaging, flavours and outdoor smoking
- Tunisia: new health warnings of 70% on front and back of packages of tobacco products
- Ukraine: New tobacco control law adopted
- Mexico: New pictures approved for the next round of warnings, including with reference to COVID-19
- Kyrgyzstan: New, comprehensive tobacco control act adopted
- Denmark: plain packaging legislation adopted
- Trinidad and Tobago: New regulations on picture warnings approved by the Senate
- Trinidad and Tobago: New regulations on picture warnings approved by the Senate
- New marking on tobacco products filters containing plastic in the European Union
- Italy/Milan: expanding smoke-free environments
- The Netherlands: Implementation of plain packaging from 01/10/2020
- A remarkable public health victory in Kazakhstan
- Strengthened tobacco control in Bolivia: 100% smoke-free
- Health Canada proposes stricter rules on vaping product promotion, and finalizes labelling and packaging requirements for vaping products
- Santé Canada propose des règles plus strictes concernant la promotion des produits de vapotage et finalise les exigences en matière d’étiquetage et d’emballage des produits de vapotage
- Thailand: the plain packaging legislation enters into force
- Saudi Arabia adopts plain packaging on tobacco products
- Republic of Moldova: amendments in the 2007 tobacco control act
- Belgium, fifth European country to adopt plain packaging
- Canada : New comprehensive plain packaging regulations for tobacco packaging and products
- Singapore: new regulation on standardized cigarette packaging
- Turkey: new regulations on plain packaging
- Ethiopia: parliament passing one of the strongest tobacco control legislations in Africa
- Pakistan: new pictorial health warning on cigarette packs
- Niue: tobacco control law passed
- Thailand: first country in Asia to adopt tobacco plain packaging
- Republic of the Congo: three new decrees adopted to implement the 2012 act
- Pakistan: expanding pictorial warnings on cigarette packets
- Brazil: new round of pictorial warnings adopted
- Benin: the Parliament adopts a new tobacco control law
- India: experts gather to help curbing the menace of smokeless tobacco
- Guyana: new Tobacco Control Bill passed
- Hungary: plain packs on the shelves
- Georgia makes a leap in WHO FCTC implementation by adopting new tobacco control legislation
- Lao PDR: large pictorial health warnings introduced
- Slovenia passes law to require plain tobacco packaging from 2020
- Republic of Korea: pictorial health warnings required
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: Court of Appeal rules in favour of standardised packaging
- European Union – Revised EU Tobacco Products Directive approved by the European Parliament
- Greater protection of public health in Lao People’s Democratic Republic
- Malta – Pictorial warnings mandatory on tobacco packaging
- Thailand – Court decision paves the way to the resizing of graphic health warnings
- “Having considered all the evidence, the Secretary of State and I believe that the policy is a proportionate and justified response to the considerable public health harm from smoking tobacco.”
- “No one wants young people to use tobacco, and its time to stop the marketing of tobacco products to young people”
- Hungary: Larger pictorial warnings and plain packaging required by the new Government Decree
- Vanuatu: record size pictorial health warnings required
- France: transposition into law of the European directive on tobacco and advent on plain packaging
- GABON: five implementation decrees adopted by the Council of Ministers
- Australia: Government releases plain packaging post-implementation review
- Ukraine: continues to fight the tobacco industry by significantly increasing cigarette tax
- Needs assessment conducted in the Kingdom of Tonga
- Nepal: 90% pictorial health warnings implemented
- European Union: specifications for health warnings on cigarette packages adopted today
- Ukraine: the Healthcare Committee of the Parliament supports new tobacco package design
- Uganda: New tobacco control law adopted
- Norway: Workshop on legal issues relating to the implementation of plain / standardized tobacco packaging in Europe
- Bangladesh: 50% picture warning requirements finalized
- Sri Lanka: Health warnings now cover 80% of pack surfaces
- Republic of Moldova: new comprehensive tobacco legislation adopted by the Parliament
- World Health Assembly: Side event on strategies to overcome resistance against pictorial warning messages on tobacco products
- Nigeria: Senate passes National Tobacco Control Bill
- Cambodia: new law on tobacco control passed
- Burkina Faso: pictorial warnings required on tobacco packs
- France: plain packaging will be introduced in 2016
- Namibia: regulations on pictorial warnings came into effect
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: standardised packaging regulations adopted
- Ireland: legislation on plain packaging passed by the Seanad
- Pakistan: the Minister for National Health Services announces 85% pictorial warnings
- Chad: Pictorial warnings required on packaging from November 2015
- Kenya : New year brings stronger tobacco control measures
- Kyrgyzstan: New policies on taxation and pictorial warnings adopted
- Sri Lanka: rotating pictorial warnings implemented
- Brazil the new anti-smoking law took effect
- India: 85% pictorial warnings required
- FRANCE: Minister of Social Affairs, Health and Womens Rights announced strong measures, including plain packaging
- Joint needs assessment in the Lao Peoples Democratic Republic
- Philippines new act on graphic health warnings enters into force
- FINLAND Action plan to make the country smoke-free by 2040