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Tobacco taxation and pricing policies

Last decades witness growing awareness of the harmful effects of smoking worldwide. In order to reduce tobacco consumption, World Health Organization (WHO) set the guidelines known as The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) which was adopted by the World Health Assembly in May 2003 and entered into force on 27th February 2005. Croatia ratified WHO FCTS on 14th July 2008, and it entered into force in same year, on 12th October.By joining EU in 2013, Croatia adopted EU regulations so the Directive 2014/40/EU was incorporated in the Act on Restrictions on the Use of Tobacco and Related Products (Official Gazette, No. 45/2017), Excise Duty Act (Official Gazette, No. 22/2013 to 115/2016) and Ordinance on Excise Duties (Official Gazette, No. 1/2017, 14/2017). While preparing to become an EU Member State, Croatia started to harmonize the other tobacco related regulations long ago.

tobacco taxation, excise duty, tobacco control

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