The Tobacco Products Labelling (Safety) Regulations 1991

Products imported from other member States

8.  A person who imports cigarettes of any brand into the United Kingdom from another member State with a view to them being supplied for consumption in the United Kingdom shall be regarded–

(a) as complying with the requirements of regulation 4(1) if the packet carries a warning in English which is taken from the list of warnings drawn up by that member State in accordance with Article 4.2 of Council Directive 89/622/EEC on the approximation of laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the member States concerning the labelling of tobacco products(1) and is in accordance with any stipulation of that member State made pursuant to Article 4.3 of that Directive;

(b) as complying with the requirements of regulation 4(2) if each of the warnings in that list appears on an equal number of packets of that brand imported by him from that Member State over any period of twelve months or on a number of such packets so imported which is no fewer than 95 per cent. of, and no greater than 105 per cent. of, the total number of such packets so imported divided by the number of warnings in that list;

(c) as complying with the requirements of regulation 5(2)(d) if the packet complies with requirements imposed by that member State pursuant to Article 4.4 of that Directive;

(d) as complying with the requirements of regulation 6(3)(b) if the packet complies with the requirements of that member State imposed pursuant to Article 3.3 of that Directive, so far as it relates to the amount of the surface of the packet to be covered.

(1)

O.J. No. L359 8.12.89 p. 1.