The European Commission announced that the proposal for the revised tobacco excise directive will be made public at the beginning of 2022’s fourth quarter during a digital consultation session that was held on May 18, with the participation of Commission officials and other interested parties such as retailers, associations, representatives of scientific and medical associations as well as representatives of the tobacco industry.

The Commission highlighted that tobacco taxation is outdated asit has not been revised since 2010, and does not capture the developments in the tobacco market or the inflation rates of the last decade.