July 10, 2020 – From August 15, 2020, the display of cigarettes in shop windows and shelves is prohibited. Businesses have begun installing new shelves.

However, economic agents say that when the seller opens the shelf, the cigarettes can become visible. Thus, the economic agent will violate the law and will be liable to punishment.

At the request of the European Business Association of Moldova and the Employers’ Association of Internal Trade Subjects “ProBiz”, the topic was discussed today on the platform of the Economic Council jointly with representatives of the National Agency for Public Health and Vice President of the Parliamentary Committee on Social Protection, Health and Family.

Participants in the debates, over 60, including tobacco manufacturers, retailers and gas station representatives found that the regulations do not say clearly whether or not it is time to sell cigarettes an exposure to them.

To make it clear, the National Agency for Public Health came up with a series of clarifications during the debates on this topic, and in the next period it will come up with a guide that will explain how to apply the legal provisions.  

In the Republic of Moldova, over 9000 commercial points have tobacco products and derivatives for sale.

The Secretariat of the Economic Council to the Prime Minister is supported by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, funded by the UK Government’s Good Governance Fund, and the International Finance Corporation’s Investment Climate Reform Project funded by the Government of Sweden’s International Development Agency.

The Secretariat of the Economic Council to the Prime Minister is supported by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, funded by the UK Government’s Good Governance Fund.