We have fully complied to the European systems of tobacco traceability and security features
15 May 2019
We have fully complied to the European systems of tobacco traceability and security features.
The traceability system aims to:
- Contribute to reducing the circulation of non-compliant tobacco products
- Reduce artificially cheap supplies of illegal tobacco products
- Protect public health, State budgets, and legal economic operators.
Under the traceability system:
- All unit packets of tobacco products will be required to be marked with a unique identifier
- Relevant economic operators involved in tobacco trade will be required to record the movements of these packets throughout the supply chain and transmit the related information to an independent provider (data storage contracts to be approved by the Commission)
- The data will then be made accessible to the authorities of EU countries and to the Commission for enforcement purposes.
In this way, it will be possible to track and trace the movement of legal tobacco products to allow public authorities to determine when a product was diverted into the illicit market.
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