Czech Republic
Czechia
All three categories are marketable, and Czechia is the market that sets the most granular numeric limits: 12 mg of nicotine per pouch and 240 mg per pack, with a minimum of 20 pouches. It is also, in contrast to Sweden, the market that did restrict e-liquid flavours — decree 429/2025 permits only fruit, tobacco, coffee, tea and mint or menthol. Nicotine strips are the open question: their classification has not been confirmed.
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Not every value on this page is confirmed.
Fields carrying a Draft marker come from a measure that is not in force. Fields carrying Needs check have not yet been verified at source. Both are marked individually next to the value, and the open questions are listed at the foot of this page.
Product categories
Where each category stands.
Status attaches to an activity, not to a market. Where sale, import and possession are treated differently, each is stated separately rather than averaged into one answer.
Marketable, under a purpose-built decree with numeric limits that are among the most specific in the EU. Notification runs through EU-CEG under the oral tobacco category.
Permitted where an age-verification system is operated.
Strips are presumed to fall under decree 141/2023, which governs nicotine pouches, but this has not been confirmed with the ministry. Rather than carry the pouch values across on that assumption, no parameter values are published for this category until the classification is settled. This is the market's critical open question.
Marketable under the TPD transposition. Flavours are restricted by decree 429/2025 — only fruit, tobacco, coffee, tea and mint or menthol are permitted.
Marketable under the TPD transposition.
Who regulates
Competent authorities.
Official names are kept in their own language, because that is the string you will have to quote in correspondence.
Ministerstvo zdravotnictví ČR
Ministry of Health
Regulator. Receives EU-CEG notifications.
mzd.gov.czKrajské hygienické stanice
Regional public health authorities
Enforcement for e-cigarettes and e-liquids.
mzd.gov.czStátní zemědělská a potravinářská inspekce (SZPI)
Czech Agriculture and Food Inspection Authority
Supervision of nicotine pouches.
www.szpi.gov.czCommonly misreported
What the internet gets wrong about Czechia.
Each of these is a claim that circulates widely and does not survive contact with the primary source.
The Czech e-liquid flavour restriction reflects an EU-wide rule.
what the source saysIt does not. Decree 429/2025 is a national measure. There is no EU flavour restriction for e-liquids, and the position varies sharply between member states: Sweden put the same restriction to a vote and rejected it. Neither market is a guide to the other.
Vyhláška č. 429/2025 Sb. zakonyprolidi.cz
The 12 mg per pouch limit is a European standard.
what the source saysNicotine pouches are not covered by EU law at all, so there is no European standard to be a version of. The 12 mg per pouch and 240 mg per pack figures come from Czech decree 141/2023. Sweden sets no numeric limit whatsoever, Germany permits no lawful market, and Spain has no act in force.
Vyhláška č. 141/2023 Sb. zakonyprolidi.cz
Not in force
What is coming, and what was rejected.
None of this is law today. Measures that were proposed and voted down are listed alongside those that were adopted, because a rejected proposal that goes unrecorded is routinely mistaken for one that passed.
Amendment to the advertising act covering nicotine pouches
Proposed and voted down. It is not coming into force.
In 2022 a group of deputies tabled a bill (sněmovní tisk 257) to extend the advertising act, zákon č. 40/1995 Sb., to nicotine pouches. The government opposed it and it never left the health committee, so it lapsed when the Chamber's term ended in 2025. The advertising act still covers only tobacco products and e-cigarettes. The pouch rules adopted so far, including the under-18 sales ban, came through zákon č. 59/2023 Sb.
Sněmovní tisk 257/0 (9. volební období), návrh novely zákona č. 40/1995 Sb.; not enacted psp.cz
Excise increase on e-liquids to CZK 10 per ml and on nicotine pouches to CZK 1.70 per g
Adopted, and takes effect on the date shown. Not in force before it.
On 1 January 2027 the excise on e-cigarette liquid rises from CZK 7.50 to CZK 10 per ml, and on nicotine pouches and other nicotine products from CZK 1.20 to CZK 1.70 per gram. This last step was written into the 2023 consolidation package, zákon č. 349/2023 Sb., so it is adopted law, not a plan. Pouches have been taxed since 2024.
§ 130u odst. 1 zákona č. 353/2003 Sb., ve znění čl. LIV bodu 55 zákona č. 349/2023 Sb. mf.gov.cz
Open questions
What we have not closed yet.
Published deliberately. Every field on this page that depends on one of these carries a marker, and the rest of the page does not.
| Priority | Question | Where to look |
|---|---|---|
| Critical |
Classification of nicotine strips: confirm whether they fall under Vyhláška č. 141/2023 Sb. blocks: base-law |
Individual enquiry to Ministerstvo zdravotnictví ČR |
| High |
Due date of the annual report under Zákon č. 110/1997 Sb., § 12h, for pouches and e-liquids. The obligation itself is confirmed; the calendar date is not stated in the source consulted, so the deadline checker returns it undated rather than assuming one. blocks: annual-reporting |
Zákon č. 110/1997 Sb., § 12h, consolidated version · Ministerstvo zdravotnictví — reporting guidance for tobacco and related products |
| Medium |
Status of the advertising-act amendment as it applies to pouches: whether it was adopted, and in what version, as at July 2026. blocks: advertising |
Poslanecká sněmovna · Sbírka zákonů |
| Medium |
Exact contents of annexes 1 and 2 to decree 429/2025 — the prohibited substances and their limits. blocks: prohibited-ingredients |
Full text in e-Sbírka |
| Medium |
The proposed excise on nicotine pouches: current status. blocks: excise |
Celní správa ČR · Ministerstvo financí |
| Low |
All section references to be checked against the consolidated versions. |
e-sbirka.gov.cz |
Sources
Everything above, traced.
| Type | Source | Link |
|---|---|---|
| Primary | Zákon č. 110/1997 Sb., o potravinách a tabákových výrobcích | zakonyprolidi.cz |
| Primary | Vyhláška č. 37/2017 Sb., o elektronických cigaretách a náhradních náplních | zakonyprolidi.cz |
| Primary | Vyhláška č. 429/2025 Sb. — amending decree 37/2017 | zakonyprolidi.cz |
| Primary | Vyhláška č. 141/2023 Sb., o nikotinových sáčcích | zakonyprolidi.cz |
| Primary | Zákon č. 65/2017 Sb., o ochraně zdraví před škodlivými účinky návykových látek | e-sbirka.gov.cz |
| Authority | Ministerstvo zdravotnictví ČR — EU-CEG notification | mzd.gov.cz |
| Authority | Státní zemědělská a potravinářská inspekce (SZPI) | szpi.gov.cz |
| Primary | Poslanecká sněmovna, sněmovní tisk 257 (9. volební období), novela zákona o regulaci reklamy | psp.cz |
| Authority | Ministerstvo financí: spotřební daň z tabáku, co se mění od 1. dubna 2024 | mf.gov.cz |
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