Zhongxin Finance, April 15th. On the 15th, the official website of the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration issued the "Guiding Opinions on the Layout and License Management of Electronic Cigarette Retail Points".
It is clear that the retail license of electronic cigarettes will not be issued to business establishments that easily induce minors to pay attention to, buy, and smoke electronic cigarettes.
The "Opinions" pointed out that adhere to the laws and regulations, formulate and implement the layout plan of e-cigarette retail outlets, accept and approve applications for e-cigarette retail licenses in accordance with the law; insist on respecting the market, and take overall consideration of e-cigarette consumer groups, population size, economic development level, geographic transportation, Enterprise costs and other market foundations, protect the property rights and legitimate rights and interests of market entities in accordance with the law; insist on protecting the physical and mental health of minors; insist on preventing disorderly expansion, and strictly formulate requirements for the layout of e-cigarette retail outlets in accordance with market laws.
The "Opinions" stipulates that, in addition to the "Administrative Measures for Tobacco Monopoly Licenses" and other existing laws, regulations, rules and normative documents on the situation of not issuing tobacco monopoly retail licenses, the circumstances of not granting e-cigarette retail licenses also include: Sales of electronic cigarettes to minors or sales of electronic cigarettes through information networks have been given administrative penalties for less than three years; administrative penalties have been given for less than three years for selling illegally produced electronic cigarettes or trading on the national unified electronic cigarette trading management platform as required A business place that easily induces minors to pay attention to, buy, and smoke e-cigarettes; a business type that has no direct or indirect complementary marketing relationship between its main business and e-cigarette retail business; it operates exclusively on marketed e-cigarette products; submits information It has been less than one year of dishonest behavior such as false declaration of materials.
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