Tobacco Reporting Regulations

Marginal note:Content of report

• 9 (1) The profile report on a manufacturer of tobacco products must set out

  • (a) a list of every type of tobacco product that the manufacturer sells;

  • (b) for each type of tobacco product that the manufacturer sells, other than a consumer tobacco product, a list of brand names used to identify the brands of tobacco products that the manufacturer sells; and

  • (c) the name and civic address of each warehouse in Canada that the manufacturer uses to store tobacco products for distribution and sale.

• Marginal note:Digital images

  (2) The report must include, for each brand of consumer tobacco product that the manufacturer sells, a digital image of the following items:

  • (a) each type of package, showing all of the sides that are visible when the package is closed;

  • (b) any promotion that is on an interior side of the package or that accompanies the package;

  • (c) any overwrap on which a promotion is displayed, that is used over a package or carton or that is used as a carton; and

  • (d) any brand element displayed on a unit of the consumer tobacco product.

• Marginal note:Digital image characteristics

  (3) The digital image of an item must be taken on a white background and

  • (a) be clear and display colours that are as close as possible to the colours of the item;

  • (b) display any text that appears on the item, in legible characters;

  • (c) include the brand name associated with the item; and

  • (d) include a graphical scale in millimetres.

• Marginal note:Time limit — new manufacturer

  (4) The report must be submitted on or before the day on which a manufacturer begins to sell tobacco products.

• Marginal note:Time limit — existing brands

  (5) However, in the case of a brand of consumer tobacco product that is sold on the day on which this subsection comes into force, or that was sold at any time during the preceding year or the portion of the year before that day, the report must be submitted on or before the 180th day after the day on which this subsection comes into force.

• Marginal note:Time limit — changes to information

  (6) If any of the information referred to in paragraphs (1)(a) to (c) is changed by the manufacturer, the manufacturer must advise the Minister of the change by submitting, on or before January 31 of the following year, a description of the information that was previously submitted, as well as of the change made to the information.

• Marginal note:Time limit — changes to items

  (7) If the appearance of any package, promotion, overwrap or brand element referred to in subsection (2) is changed by the manufacturer, the manufacturer must, within 30 days after the day on which the consumer tobacco product is sold using that changed item, advise the Minister of the change by submitting

  • (a) the digital image previously submitted, as well as a description of the change made to the item; and

  • (b) a digital image of the changed item.

• Marginal note:Time limit — new brand

  (8) A manufacturer must, on or before the day on which the manufacturer first sells a new brand of consumer tobacco product in a year, submit the digital images referred to in subsection (2).