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ArticleTobacco prevention & cessation2022

Tobacco products in the European Union Common Entry Gate (EU-CEG): A tool for monitoring the EU tobacco products directive.

Dolors Carnicer-Pont, Olena Tigova, Anne Havermans, Eline Remue, Matus Ferech, Katharina Vejdovszky, Renata Solimini, Silvano Gallus, Emilia Nunes, Carl C Lange and 5 more

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Dolors Carnicer-PontCancer Prevention and Control Programme, Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention Department, Catalan Institute of Oncology, Barcelona, Spain.
Olena TigovaCancer Prevention and Control Programme, Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention Department, Catalan Institute of Oncology, Barcelona, Spain.
Anne HavermansCentre for Health Protection, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, RIVM, Bilthoven, The Netherlands.
Eline RemueFederal Public Service Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment, Brussels, Belgium.
Matus FerechTobacco Control Team, DG SANTE B2, Cross-border Healthcare and Tobacco Control, Brussels, Belgium.
Katharina VejdovszkyAustrian Agency for Health and Food Safety, Vienna, Austria.
Renata SoliminiNational Centre on Addiction and Doping, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy.
Silvano GallusDepartment of Environmental Health Sciences, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri, IRCCS, Milan, Italy.
Emilia NunesDepartment of Health, Ministry of Health, Lisbon, Portugal.
Carl C LangeThe Danish Safety Technology Authority, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Cristina Gomez-ChaconTobacco Prevention and Control Unit, Deputy Direction of Promotion, Prevention and Quality, General Direction of Public Health, Ministry of Health, Madrid, Spain.
Francisco Ruiz-DominguezGeneral Directorate of Public Health and Pharmaceutical Management, Regional Ministry of Health and Families of Andalusia, Sevilla, Spain.
Panagiotis BehrakisGeorge D. Behrakis Research Lab, Hellenic Cancer Society, Athens, Greece.
Constantine I VardavasGeorge D. Behrakis Research Lab, Hellenic Cancer Society, Athens, Greece.
Esteve FernandezCancer Prevention and Control Programme, Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention Department, Catalan Institute of Oncology, Barcelona, Spain.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionUnder the European Union (EU) Tobacco Products Directive (2014/40/EU) (TPD), manufacturers and importers of tobacco products are required to report information to the European Commission (EC) and Member States (MS) on products intended to be placed on the market. We describe the distribution of notifications to the EU Common Entry Gate (EU-CEG) and identify key fields for improvement on reporting cigarettes or roll-your-own (RYO) tobacco.

methodsA cross-sectional analysis of secondary data reported in the EU-CEG was conducted for tobacco products notified within EU-CEG between June 2016 and October 2019 for 12 EU MS. Analysis of compliance to specific regulations for priority additives that refer to cigarettes and RYO was conducted for 10 EU countries.

resultsOverall, 39170 tobacco products were notified. This included 16762 (42.8%) notifications of cigars, followed by cigarettes 11242 (28.7 %), waterpipes 3291 (8.4%), cigarillos (n=1783), pipe (n=1715), RYO (n=1635), chewing tobacco (n=1021), novel tobacco products (n=839), herbal products for smoking (n=535), other (n=258), nasal (n=74) and oral tobacco (n=15). In cigarettes and RYO tobacco products, the proportion of ingredients notified in all countries that contained an unknown Chemical Abstract Services (CAS) number was 3.8% and 2.1%, respectively. The proportion of underreporting flagging of priority additives ranged from 15.9% in Malta to 41.3% in Lithuania, the mean proportion of underreporting of the variable 'priority additive' for the 10 countries together was 24.7%.

conclusionsIn the EU-CEG data base, for the period of analysis, a significant number of product notifications took place while large variations in the number of types of tobacco products notified across EU countries was noted. The timely monitoring of these data is needed so that products non-compliant within the EU-CEG system are assessed.

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