Hungarian Gazette 2025/26
Summary
The government decree establishes the detailed rules for the presentation and description of new types of tobacco products, nicotine-containing products and related devices in tobacco shops and through closed electronic channels. The purpose of the regulation is to ensure that, while maintaining the strict prohibition on tobacco advertising, adult consumers may receive scientifically substantiated information on innovative products, while access by minors remains excluded. Tobacco product wholesalers may, subject to a prior notification obligation, conduct product information activities exclusively within the framework defined in the decree, which may not be directed at advertising or at encouraging consumption.
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HUNGARIAN OFFICIAL GAZETTE · Issue 26 of 2025
III. Government Decrees
Government Decree No. 43/2025. (III. 13.) on the special rules for the description and presentation of certain products sold in tobacco shops
[1] The Act CXXXIV of 2012 on the Suppression of Youth Smoking and the Retail Trade of Tobacco Products established, from July 2013, one of the strictest anti-smoking regulatory frameworks in the European Union in Hungary, one pillar of which was the introduction of a strictly regulated tobacco trade system and the channelling of retail sales of tobacco products into closed, separate tobacco shops, while the other pillar was the introduction of one of the strictest tobacco advertising bans in Europe.…