The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) has issued an instruction regarding Health Warning on both sides of the tobacco product packages covering 85% of the display area.
Reference is invited to D.O. letter No. P.16011/02/2017-TC (Part 1) dated December 09, 2022 from the Department of Health and Family Welfare, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), New Delhi on the above-mentioned subject.
Last month, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) has informed that the Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, COTPA, 2003 is applicable to all the tobacco products and extends to whole of the country.
Section 7 of the Act provides for specified Health Warning on all tobacco product packs. These rules have been amended time to time, for display of specified health warning on both sides of the tobacco product packages covering 85% of the principal display area. The rules were amended last in July, 2020 dated July 21, 2020.
Now, MoHFW vide Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products (Packaging and Labelling) Amendment Rules, 2022 (copy enclosed) has notified the new set of specified health warning which has come into force on the 1st day of December, 2022.
In the light of the letter, the CBIC has stated that “the undersigned is directed to say that necessary action should be taken to sensitize officers in your jurisdiction and to effectively implement these new provisions.”
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