Licence for the sale of tobacco, tobacco products and related products

A sole trader or a legal entity that sells tobacco, tobacco products and related products must obtain a licence for the sale of such products for individual business premises where invoices for the supply of tobacco, tobacco products or related products are issued permanently, occasionally or temporarily. The application may only be submitted in electronic form via the SPOT portal.

Definition of individual products

The products for which a sales licence is required are defined in Article 3 of the Restriction on the Use of Tobacco Products and Related Products Act (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia [Uradni list RS], Nos 9/17 and 29/17):

Tobacco means leaves and other natural processed or unprocessed parts of tobacco plants, including expanded and reconstituted tobacco:

• Pipe tobacco means tobacco that can be consumed via a combustion process and is exclusively intended for use in a pipe.
• Hand rolling tobacco means cut rag tobacco, which is further defined in paragraph three of Article 84 of the Excise Duty Act.

1. Tobacco products means products that can be consumed and that consist, even partly, of tobacco, whether genetically modified or not.

• Nasal tobacco means a smokeless tobacco product that can be consumed via the nose.
• Waterpipe tobacco means a tobacco product that can be consumed via a waterpipe. For the purpose of this Act, waterpipe tobacco is deemed to be a tobacco product for smoking. If a product can be used for smoking via a water pipe and as hand rolling tobacco, it is deemed to be hand rolling tobacco.
• Chewing tobacco means a smokeless tobacco product which is exclusively intended for the purpose of chewing. Smokeless tobacco product means a tobacco product which does not involve a combustion process, including chewing tobacco, nasal tobacco and tobacco for oral use.

Related products means electronic cigarettes and nicotine-free electronic cigarettes, herbal products for smoking and novel tobacco products.

• Herbal product for smoking means a product based on plants, herbs or fruits that does not contain tobacco and can be consumed via a combustion process.
• Electronic cigarette means a product that can be used to inhale nicotine-containing vapour via a mouthpiece, or any component of that product, including a cartridge, a tank and a device without a cartridge or tank. Electronic cigarettes may be disposable or refillable by means of a refill container and a tank, or rechargeable with single use cartridges.  Refill container means a receptacle that contains a nicotine-containing liquid, which can be used to refill an electronic cigarette.

Novel tobacco product means a tobacco product which does not fall into any of the following categories:

• cigarettes, hand rolling tobacco, pipe tobacco, waterpipe tobacco, cigars, cigarillos, chewing tobacco, nasal tobacco or tobacco for oral use; and
• has been placed on the market after 19 May 2014.