Medicines Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency
October 2
13:35
2024
The information below contains the contact details and responsibilities of each of the regulatory bodies involved in the regulation of e-cigarette and vape products.
| Agency name | Office for Health Improvement and Disparities |
|---|---|
| Department | Tobacco and related products regulations |
| Website | Tobacco products and e-cigarette cross-border sales: registration - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) |
| Contact | |
| Contact email | CBS.Tobacco@dhsc.gov.uk |
| Responsibilities | Cross-border distance sales responsibilities?- manages retail registrations to undertakecross-border distance saleof e-cigarette liquids, devices and components and tobacco products into and out of Northern Ireland.Retailers based in Great Britain, Northern Ireland, the European Union, and other countries must register with the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities at CBS.Tobacco@dhsc.gov.uk to make these types of sales into and out of Northern Ireland. |
| Agency name | Department for Business and Trade (DBT) |
|---|---|
| Department | Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) |
| Bubbly.sandhu@businessandtrade.gov.uk | |
| Website | National regulation: enforcement services - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) |
| Contact | 0121 345 1201 / 0121 345 1226 |
| Contact email | OPSS.enquiries@beis.gov.uk |
| Responsibilities | OPSS is the national regulator for consumer product safety (other than in relation to vehicles, medicines, and food), working with local authorities, other market surveillance authorities and border control authorities. |
| Agency name | Environment Agency |
|---|---|
| Department | Environment & Business - Producer Responsibility |
| enquiries@environment-agency.gov.uk | |
| Website | Environment Agency - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) |
| Contact | Becci Owen |
| Contact email | becci.owen@environment-agency.gov.uk |
| Responsibilities | Companies that place e-cigarettes/vapes on the market in the UK need to register as an electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) producer and a batteries producer. These requirements come from the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Regulations 2013 and the Waste Batteries and Accumulators Regulations 2009, respectively.These companies may also need to register as packaging producers under the Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations 2007 and the Packaging Waste (Data Reporting) Regulations 2023 (note: there are separate data reporting regulations for England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland). Producers must register so that they can fulfil their legal obligations to finance collection and treatment of these products once they become waste. ?The definitions of EEE, battery, and packaging producers are available in the following guidance links, along with information about how to register.Electrical and electronic equipment (EEE): producer responsibilities - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)Waste batteries: producer responsibility - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)Packaging waste: producer responsibilities - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)Extended producer responsibility for packaging: who is affected and what to do - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) |
| Agency name | Natural Resources Wales Cyfoeth Naturiol Cymru |
|---|---|
| Department | Producer Responsibility - WEEE |
| enquiries@cyfoethnaturiolcymru.gov.uk | |
| Website | Natural Resources Wales |
| Contact | Producer Responsibility Team? - ?WEEE |
| Contact email | oteg@cyfoethnaturiolcymru.gov.uk |
| Agency name | Health and Safety Executive |
|---|---|
| Department | Chemicals Regulation Division |
| CRDEnforcement@hse.gov.uk | |
| Website | hse.gov.uk |
| Contact | Hannah Doherty |
| Contact email | Hannah.doherty@hse.gov.uk |
| Responsibilities | CLP - European Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures. This regulation was replicated in the UK with the changes needed to make it operable in a domestic context and is now known as GB CLP. Anyone who supplies chemical substances or mixtures which are classified as hazardous needs to classify and label those products appropriately. Chemical classification - HSE. REACH European Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals. This regulation was replicated in the UK with the changes needed to make it operable in a domestic context and is now known as UK REACH.REACH stands for registration, evaluation, and restriction of chemicals UK REACH - HSE. |