E-liquids
Refill liquids for electronic cigarettes, with or without nicotine, including bases, flavour concentrates and DIY boosters where the market treats them the same way.
verified 10.07.2026 · TPD Pro regulatory desk
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.
Position
Where this stands, in words.
Governed by the tobacco act, transposing article 20 of the TPD. Flavours are not restricted: the government proposed a prohibition and the Riksdag rejected it.
Lag (2018:2088)
Cross-border distance selling must be registered with Folkhälsomyndigheten and confirmed before it starts.
Registration with Folkhälsomyndigheten required
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
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Base law
The act the category is governed by in this market.
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Lag (2018:2088) om tobak och liknande produkter
Lag (2018:2088) riksdagen.se verified 10.07.2026
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Implementing act
The decree, regulation or ordinance carrying the detail.
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Förordning (2019:223); HSLF-FS 2018:41
Förordning (2019:223) riksdagen.se verified 10.07.2026
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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.
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Directive 2014/40/EU (TPD2), art. 20 — transposed
Directive 2014/40/EU, art. 20 riksdagen.se verified 10.07.2026
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Competent authority
Who regulates, who supervises, and who receives the filing.
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Folkhälsomyndigheten; the municipality; the county administrative board for high-concentration products
folkhalsomyndigheten.se verified 10.07.2026
Composition and limits
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Maximum nicotine
The ceiling on nicotine content, in the unit the act sets it in.
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20 mg/ml
§ 10 Förordning (2019:223) riksdagen.se verified 10.07.2026
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Container volume
Ceilings on refill container and tank or cartridge volume.
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Refill container 10 ml; disposable tank 2 ml maximum
§ 9 Förordning (2019:223) riksdagen.se verified 10.07.2026
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Prohibited ingredients
Substances that may not be present, beyond the general prohibition on hazardous ones.
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Vitamins and other additives suggesting a benefit; caffeine, taurine and stimulants; nicotine above 20 mg/ml
§ 10 Förordning (2019:223) riksdagen.se verified 10.07.2026
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Flavour restriction
Whether characterising flavours are restricted, and from when. One of the most widely misreported fields in this sector.
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Not restricted. A prohibition was proposed and rejected by the Riksdag on 21.06.2022
The government bill proposed prohibiting additives giving a clearly perceptible smell or taste other than tobacco, for nicotine-containing and nicotine-free liquids alike. The Riksdag passed the other measures in the bill and rejected this one. The subject remains politically live and is revisited in SOU 2024:23.
Bet. 2021/22:SoU31, rejecting the flavour prohibition proposed in prop. 2021/22:200 riksdagen.se verified 10.07.2026
Packaging and labelling
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Mandatory warning
The statutory wording. Reproduced verbatim in the language of the act, because the text on the pack must match it.
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Denna produkt innehåller nikotin som är ett mycket beroendeframkallande ämne.
§ 12 Förordning (2019:223) riksdagen.se verified 10.07.2026
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Other packaging requirements
Leaflet, child resistance, tamper evidence, and prohibited presentation.
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Information leaflet and content declaration; the pack must not resemble food or cosmetics; no economic inducements
Förordning (2019:223) riksdagen.se verified 10.07.2026
Notification
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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.
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EU-CEG
folkhalsomyndigheten.se verified 10.07.2026
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Lead time
How far ahead of market entry the notification must be filed.
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6 months before market entry
2 kap. 7 § LTLP riksdagen.se verified 10.07.2026
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Notification fee
What the filing costs, per what unit. Charged in several markets and free in others.
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2400 SEK per brand and type
folkhalsomyndigheten.se verified 10.07.2026
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Annual reporting
The recurring obligation after market entry, and its deadline.
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By 31 March: sales volumes and consumer groups
Förordning (2019:223) riksdagen.se verified 10.07.2026
Sales
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Minimum age
The age below which sale is prohibited.
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18 years
LTLP riksdagen.se verified 10.07.2026
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Online and distance sale
Whether the product may be sold remotely, domestically and across borders.
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Permitted; cross-border distance selling must be registered with Folkhälsomyndigheten and confirmed
folkhalsomyndigheten.se verified 10.07.2026
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Retail permit or notification
What a retailer must file, and with whom, before selling.
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Notification to the municipality together with a self-monitoring programme
LTLP 5 kap. riksdagen.se verified 10.07.2026
Excise and chemicals
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Advertising
What promotion is permitted, if any.
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Commercial communications prohibited in the media, in information society services and on television and radio; sponsorship prohibited
LTLP 4 kap. riksdagen.se verified 10.07.2026
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Excise
The rate and its basis of assessment. Five markets use four different units, so the unit travels with the figure.
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2020 SEK/litre Needs check
High-concentration liquids are charged at SEK 4,040 per litre. Rates are index-linked from 2025 and the 2026 figures should be confirmed before they are relied on.
Lag (2018:696); Förordning (2025:886) lagen.nu verified 10.07.2026
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Chemicals legislation
REACH, CLP, safety data sheets and poison-centre notification, which apply in parallel to the product regime.
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REACH and CLP apply; safety data sheet required; supervised by KemI
Regulation (EC) 1907/2006; Regulation (EC) 1272/2008 riksdagen.se 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.
Denna produkt innehåller nikotin som är ett mycket beroendeframkallande ämne.
unofficial gloss — This product contains nicotine, which is a highly addictive substance.
§ 12 Förordning (2019:223) riksdagen.se
Commonly misreported
What the internet gets wrong.
Sweden banned flavoured e-liquids in 2022.
what the source saysThe opposite happened. The prohibition was in the government's bill and the Riksdag voted it down on 21 June 2022 while passing the rest of the bill. Flavours are not restricted in Sweden. A proposal that was defeated is easy to mistake for one that passed, because the coverage of the bill and the coverage of the vote read almost the same.
Bet. 2021/22:SoU31 riksdagen.se
Not in force
What is coming for this category.
None of this is law today.
Prohibition on non-tobacco flavours in e-liquids
Proposed and voted down. It is not coming into force.
Government bill prop. 2021/22:200 proposed prohibiting additives giving a clearly perceptible smell or taste other than tobacco, in nicotine-containing and nicotine-free liquids alike. On 21 June 2022 the Riksdag passed the other measures in the bill and voted this one down. Flavours are therefore not restricted in Sweden, which is the opposite of the position in Czechia. The subject remains politically live and is revisited in SOU 2024:23.
Bet. 2021/22:SoU31 riksdagen.se
SOU 2024:23 — inquiry into nicotine, alcohol and nitrous oxide among young people
A draft. It is not law and does not bind anyone.
SOU 2024:23 was presented on 25 March 2024. It proposed a 12 mg/g nicotine ceiling for tobacco snus and nicotine pouches, a criminal ban on buying nicotine products for under-18s, and a nicotine-free school day. Only the nitrous oxide part has been enacted, as lag (2025:621) om lustgas. In July 2026 the minister said the nicotine proposals were still being prepared in the Government Offices, and none of them is law.
SOU 2024:23 (betänkande, ej lag) regeringen.se
Open questions
What we have not closed yet.
| Priority | Question | Where to look |
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| Critical |
Status of the e-liquid flavour prohibition, rejected in 2022 and still politically live. blocks: flavour-restriction |
Riksdagen bill tracker · SOU 2024:23 · Government position |
| Critical |
Exact nicotine tax rates for 2026 in SEK per litre and SEK per kilogram. blocks: excise |
Förordning (2025:886) · Skatteverket · lagen.nu |
| Medium |
The proposed prohibition on proxy purchasing (langning) and the other measures in SOU 2024:23. |
Riksdagen · Ministerial answers 2025/26:923 |
| Low |
All section references to be checked against the consolidated versions. |
riksdagen.se · lagen.nu · svenskforfattningssamling.se |
verified 10.07.2026 · TPD Pro regulatory desk