Tobacco Reporting Regulations

Marginal note:Quarterly report

• 11 (1) Every manufacturer of a consumer tobacco product, a paper, a tube or a filter shall report, quarterly, by brand and type of tobacco, the information described in subsections (2) and (3).

• Marginal note:Inventory

  (2) The report shall set out the total quantity and cost of every ingredient

  • (a) purchased in the quarter;

  • (b) used in the quarter; and

  • (c) stored, on the date the report is made.

• Marginal note:Content of report

  (3) The report shall set out the following information:

  • (a) in the case of a bidi, cigarette, cigar, tobacco stick, or kretek, its weight in milligrams per unit;

  • (b) in respect of each ingredient in a consumer tobacco product, a paper, a tube or a filter,

    • (i) its common, chemical and commercial names,

    • (ii) if applicable, its biological origin, in standard Latin nomenclature,

    • (iii) if applicable, the registry number assigned to it in accordance with the Chemical Abstracts Service of the American Chemical Society,

    • (iv) the mean, standard deviation and 95% confidence limit of the amount of it in milligrams

      • (A) per gram of the consumer tobacco product, paper, tube or filter, and

      • (B) in the case of a bidi, cigarette, cigar, tobacco stick or kretek, per unit of the product,

    • (v) the name and street address of its supplier,

    • (vi) its country of origin,

    • (vii) in the case of tobacco, its type,

    • (viii) in the case of a paper, its type and specifications, and

    • (ix) in the case of a filter, a description of it, its specifications and pressure drop and, with respect to nicotine for those brands analyzed pursuant to subsection 14(13), its efficiency, determined in accordance with Official Method T-106, entitled Determination of Filter Efficiency in Mainstream Tobacco Smoke, made by the Department of Health, dated December 31, 1999; and

  • (c) in respect of each component of an ingredient in a consumer tobacco product, a paper, a tube or a filter

    • (i) its commercial, common and chemical names,

    • (ii) if applicable, its biological origin, in standard Latin nomenclature,

    • (iii) if applicable, the registry number assigned to it in accordance with the Chemical Abstracts Service of the American Chemical Society,

    • (iv) the mean, standard deviation and 95% confidence limit of the amount of it in milligrams

      • (A) per gram of the ingredient and of the consumer tobacco product, paper, tube or filter, and

      • (B) in the case of a bidi, cigarette, cigar, tobacco stick or kretek, per unit of the tobacco product,

    • (v) the name and street address of its supplier, and

    • (vi) its country of origin.

• Marginal note:When report to be submitted

  (4) The report shall be submitted

  • (a) for the period beginning on January 1 and ending on March 31 of a year, on or before April 30 of that year;

  • (b) for the period beginning on April 1 and ending on June 30 of a year, on or before July 31 of that year;

  • (c) for the period beginning on July 1 and ending on September 30 of a year, on or before October 31 of that year; and

  • (d) for the period beginning on October 1 and ending on December 31 of a year, on or before January 31 of the following year.

• Marginal note:Exception — identical products

  (5) The report is not required for a consumer tobacco product if

  • (a) the product is one of identical products of the manufacturer sold under different brands; and

  • (b) a report under this section is submitted in respect of another of those identical products.