Position

Where this stands, in words.

Open Permitted; the notification regime functions.

Permitted subject to the requirements of the royal decree of 28 October 2016, which transposes article 20 of the TPD. Excise applies. Online sale is prohibited and a display ban has applied since 1 April 2025.

Commercial sale Open

AR 28.10.2016

Online sale Banned

Sale of tobacco products and electronic cigarettes over the internet is prohibited. The prohibition extends to smoking devices.

Loi tabac — interdiction de la vente à distance

Cross-border distance sale Banned

Loi tabac — interdiction de la vente à distance

Requirements

Every parameter, with its source.

A field with no source is not shown at all — not shown with a caveat, not shown. Anything missing from this table is missing because it has not been verified, not because it does not apply.

Legal basis

Base law The act the category is governed by in this market.: Arrêté royal du 28 octobre 2016 relatif à la fabrication et à la mise dans le commerce des cigarettes électroniques

AR 28.10.2016 ejustice.just.fgov.be verified 10.07.2026
EU-level regulation Whether and how the category is covered by EU law. A category outside EU law is regulated market by market, with no common floor.: Directive 2014/40/EU (TPD), art. 20 — transposed

Directive 2014/40/EU, art. 20 ejustice.just.fgov.be verified 10.07.2026
Competent authority Who regulates, who supervises, and who receives the filing.: SPF Santé publique

health.belgium.be verified 10.07.2026

Composition and limits

Maximum nicotine The ceiling on nicotine content, in the unit the act sets it in.: 20 mg/ml

AR 28.10.2016, art. 6/1 ejustice.just.fgov.be verified 10.07.2026
Container volume Ceilings on refill container and tank or cartridge volume.: Refill container 10 ml; tank 2 ml maximum

AR 28.10.2016, art. 4 ejustice.just.fgov.be verified 10.07.2026
Prohibited ingredients Substances that may not be present, beyond the general prohibition on hazardous ones.: Vitamins, caffeine, colourants that colour emissions, and additives that facilitate nicotine inhalation or uptake

AR 28.10.2016 ejustice.just.fgov.be verified 10.07.2026
Flavour restriction Whether characterising flavours are restricted, and from when. One of the most widely misreported fields in this sector.: Not restricted. A prohibition on all flavours except tobacco was approved on 30.04.2026 and takes effect 01.09.2028 Needs check

Flavoured e-liquids are permitted until 1 September 2028. Only the requirement to name the flavour neutrally on the pack is in force today. The transitional provisions and the outcome of the TRIS procedure are open — see the verification queue.

Council of Ministers decision of 30.04.2026; draft arrêté ministériel, TRIS procedure pending vandenbroucke.belgium.be verified 10.07.2026

Packaging and labelling

Mandatory warning The statutory wording. Reproduced verbatim in the language of the act, because the text on the pack must match it.: Ce produit contient de la nicotine, substance qui crée une forte dépendance.

French text. The Dutch wording is set separately — see the health warnings below. Belgium is trilingual and most acts have official versions in French, Dutch and German.

AR 28.10.2016 (TPD) ejustice.just.fgov.be verified 10.07.2026
Other packaging requirements Leaflet, child resistance, tamper evidence, and prohibited presentation.: Information leaflet in the pack; child-resistant closure; tamper evidence; ingredient list; nicotine content and delivery per dose; batch number; flavour named neutrally

Elements creating a false impression of benefit or reduced harm are prohibited.

AR 28.10.2016 ejustice.just.fgov.be verified 10.07.2026
Plain packaging Whether the standardised-packaging regime reaches this category.: Not required

The standardised-packaging regime extends from 1 June 2026 to cigars, cigarillos, pipe tobacco, heated tobacco, herbal smoking products, accessories, papers, filters and pipes. Electronic cigarettes are not included.

AR 28.07.2025 news.belgium.be verified 10.07.2026

Notification

Notification channel Where the filing goes. Not an assumption: some markets take these products outside EU-CEG entirely, and some have no channel at all.: EU-CEG, via SPF Santé publique

Products that are not notified, or are incompletely notified, are automatically barred from sale.

health.belgium.be verified 10.07.2026
Lead time How far ahead of market entry the notification must be filed.: 6 months before market entry

Directive 2014/40/EU, art. 20 ejustice.just.fgov.be verified 10.07.2026
Registry and status check Where a product's approval status can be confirmed.: Smoking Info — positive list

A product absent from the positive list, or present on the negative list, may not be sold.

health.belgium.be verified 10.07.2026

Sales

Minimum age The age below which sale is prohibited.: 18 years

Applies to nicotine-free e-cigarettes as well. Enforcement includes mystery shopping.

Loi tabac / AR health.belgium.be verified 10.07.2026
Online and distance sale Whether the product may be sold remotely, domestically and across borders.: Prohibited

Loi tabac health.belgium.be verified 10.07.2026
Points of sale Where the product may and may not be sold.: Prohibited in retail areas over 400 m² and at temporary points of sale

The prohibition on sale in retail areas above 400 m² applies from 01.04.2025; the prohibition on temporary points of sale — markets, festivals, fairs — from July 2025.

health.belgium.be verified 10.07.2026
Display ban Whether the product may be visible at the point of sale.: In force since 01.04.2025

No visible display at any point of sale, including supermarkets, kiosks, filling stations and duty-free. Only a neutral price list showing brand and price is permitted.

health.belgium.be verified 10.07.2026

Excise and chemicals

Advertising What promotion is permitted, if any.: Prohibited

Any communication directly or indirectly promoting the product counts as advertising, on any medium and in any place. Since 2021 the brand may not appear on shop windows or signage.

health.belgium.be verified 10.07.2026
Excise The rate and its basis of assessment. Five markets use four different units, so the unit travels with the figure.: 0.15 €/ml Needs check

Plus VAT at 21%. Applies to any liquid, with or without nicotine, and to DIY bases, flavourings and boosters. Introduced on 01.01.2024 with a transitional period and applied in full from 01.07.2024; the exact commencement and the programme-law reference are open — see the verification queue.

Excise on e-liquids; commencement to be confirmed finances.belgium.be verified 10.07.2026
Excise mechanism Who is liable, what marking is required, and through which system.: Fiscal mark of 18 × 42 mm per bottle; ordered through GestTab; liability sits with the licensed warehousekeeper (entrepositaire agréé) Needs check

A guarantee for the full amount of the tax is required when ordering marks.

finances.belgium.be verified 10.07.2026
Chemicals legislation REACH, CLP, safety data sheets and poison-centre notification, which apply in parallel to the product regime.: REACH and CLP apply in parallel; safety data sheet required; UFI code and poison-centre notification for mixtures classified as hazardous

Nicotine is classified as acutely toxic. REACH and CLP compliance does not legalise a product the national regime prohibits — the national prohibition takes precedence.

Regulation (EC) 1272/2008; Regulation (EC) 1907/2006 health.belgium.be verified 10.07.2026

Mandatory warning

The statutory wording, verbatim.

Reproduced exactly as the act sets it, in the language it sets it in. The text on your pack has to match this character for character, so it is never paraphrased and never machine-translated here. Where an English gloss is given it is unofficial and is not the text to print.

French · fr

Ce produit contient de la nicotine, substance qui crée une forte dépendance.

AR 28.10.2016 (TPD) ejustice.just.fgov.be

Dutch · nl

Dit product bevat nicotine: een stof die in hoge mate verslavend werkt.

AR 28.10.2016 (TPD) ejustice.just.fgov.be

Commonly misreported

What the internet gets wrong.

widely reported

Belgium banned flavoured e-liquids from January 2025.

what the source says

It did not. No flavour restriction is in force. What took effect is a narrower requirement that the flavour be named neutrally on the packaging. A prohibition on all flavours except tobacco was approved on 30 April 2026 and takes effect on 1 September 2028, and it has still to clear the TRIS procedure. Several secondary sources report the 2025 date; the primary record does not support it.

Council of Ministers decision of 30.04.2026 vandenbroucke.belgium.be

Not in force

What is coming for this category.

None of this is law today.

Draft decided 30.04.2026

Prohibition on all e-liquid flavours except tobacco

A draft. It is not law and does not bind anyone.

On 30 April 2026 the Council of Ministers approved draft decrees to allow only tobacco-flavoured and unflavoured e-liquids, and to ban components that change the taste, smell or colour of the vapour. The draft royal decree was notified to the EU as TRIS 2026/0254/BE on 22 May 2026. Detailed opinions from Greece, Romania and Italy extended the standstill to 26 November 2026, so the decree cannot be adopted before then. Press reports give 1 September 2028 as the intended start; the notified text has not been adopted or published in the Moniteur belge.

Draft royal decree amending the AR of 28 October 2016 on the manufacture and marketing of electronic cigarettes (TRIS 2026/0254/BE), with a draft ministerial decree technical-regulation-information-system.ec.europa.eu

Open questions

What we have not closed yet.

Open verification questions
Priority	Question	Where to look
High	Status and transitional provisions of the flavour prohibition: approved 30.04.2026, effective 01.09.2028, currently in the TRIS procedure. blocks: flavour-restriction	Moniteur belge · EU TRIS database · vandenbroucke.belgium.be
High	Exact commencement date and legal basis of the excise on e-liquids — 01.01.2024 introduction against 01.07.2024 full application — and the programme-law or Code des accises reference. blocks: excise	finances.belgium.be · Moniteur belge
High	Whether SPF Santé publique imposes an annual reporting obligation for e-liquids and e-cigarettes beyond the EU-CEG notification itself, and on what date. No annual-reporting value is recorded for Belgium, so the deadline checker returns nothing for it. blocks: annual-reporting	AR 28.10.2016 and the arrêtés ministériels under it · health.belgium.be — e-cigarette notification guidance
Medium	Whether track and trace — the Incert unique identifiers — applies to electronic cigarettes and e-liquids. blocks: track-and-trace	SPF Santé publique · Incert
Medium	Exact trilingual wording (FR/NL/DE) of the mandatory warnings for e-liquids, and the placement rules. blocks: warning-format	Moniteur belge — consolidated AR 28.10.2016
Medium	PCN and UFI: the specific thresholds at which poison-centre notification becomes mandatory for e-liquid formulations.	ECHA Poison Centres · Centre Antipoisons
Low	Possible extension of the plain-packaging regime to electronic cigarettes, currently being lobbied for. blocks: plain-packaging	news.belgium.be · health.belgium.be
Low	Revision of the TPD at EU level (TPD3) and its effect on nicotine products; a draft is expected towards the end of 2026.	ec.europa.eu · health.belgium.be

verified 23.10.2026 · TPD Pro regulatory desk

E-liquids