Tobacco Reporting Regulations

Marginal note:Content of report

• 11 (1) The report on ingredients must set out, by type and brand of tobacco product, the following information for each ingredient, other than a processing aid, that is used in the manufacture of a consumer tobacco product, cigarette paper, filter or tube that a manufacturer sells during a year:

  • (a) its common, chemical and brand names;

  • (b) in the case of tobacco — other than reconstituted tobacco that is used as an ingredient in the manufacture of a consumer tobacco product — the type of tobacco, its country of origin and its biological origin, in standard Latin nomenclature;

  • (c) if applicable, its CAS registry number;

  • (d) its amount in milligrams

    • (i) per unit of the product, in the case of an ingredient used in the manufacture of a bidi, cigarette, cigar, kretek, little cigar, cigarette paper, filter or tube, or

    • (ii) per gram of the product, in the case of an ingredient used in the manufacture of cigarette tobacco, pipe tobacco or smokeless tobacco; and

  • (e) the name and civic address of its supplier.

• Marginal note:More than one substance in an ingredient

  (2) For greater certainty, if more than one substance was used in the manufacture of any ingredient mentioned in the report, the report must set out, by ingredient, the information referred to in subsection (1) for each substance used in the manufacture of that ingredient.

• Marginal note:Weight of unit

  (3) If any bidi, cigar, cigarette, kretek, little cigar, cigarette paper, filter or tube is mentioned in the report, the report must also set out, by brand, the weight of one unit of the product in milligrams.

• Marginal note:Initial report

  (4) Despite subsection (1), the initial report must include information in respect of each consumer tobacco product, cigarette paper, filter or tube that a manufacturer sells during the portion of the year remaining after the day on which this subsection comes into force and for which a report has not already been submitted.

• Marginal note:Inventory

  (5) In addition to the information referred to in subsections (1) to (3), the report must also set out

  • (a) the name and civic address of each establishment where the ingredients are used in the manufacture of the consumer tobacco product, cigarette paper, filter or tube during the period covered by the report;

  • (b) the total quantity and cost of each ingredient, including any processing aid, that is purchased during the period covered by the report for use in the manufacture of cigarettes; and

  • (c) the total quantity and cost of each ingredient, including any processing aid, that is used during the period covered by the report in the manufacture of cigarettes.

• Marginal note:Time limit

  (6) The report must be submitted on or before January 31 of the year after the period covered by the report.

• Marginal note:Time limit — new brand

  (7) A manufacturer must, on or before the day on which the manufacturer first sells a new brand of consumer tobacco product, cigarette paper, filter or tube in a year, submit a report setting out the information referred to in subsections (1) to (3) in respect of the new brand.