The merchant must notify the Health Inspectorate of the marketing of vials for electronic cigarettes or electronic cigarettes prior to the commencement of trade. Such requirement is specified in Section 8, Paragraph nine of the Law on the Circulation of Tobacco Products, Plant Smoking Products, Electronic Smoking Devices and Their Liquids. For notification, the form provided for in Cabinet Regulation No. 593 of 6 September 2016, Procedures by which a merchant shall notify the commencement of the sale of electronic cigarettes and electronic cigarette refill vials and shall be submitted to the Health Inspectorate. It can be easily completed and submitted using the e-service “Application for Health Inspectorate” available on the portal www.latvija.lv (subject: “Trade in electronic cigarettes and electronic cigarette refill vials”).
The use of e-service has a number of important advantages:
• do not have to download the form specified in Cabinet Regulation No. 593 of 6 September 2016, Procedures by which a merchant notifies the commencement of the sale of electronic cigarettes and electronic cigarette refill vials.
• the content fields of the application correspond to the form, they are clearly defined in step 3 of the input – you need to enter the necessary information.
The legal status of the e-service shall be equivalent to a paper-based or e-signature document.
The merchant's duties shall include reporting to the Inspectorate if he or she starts trading in a new place or if the name of the merchant indicated in the previous submission changes, the registered person, the contact person, the planned assortment, the name of the place of sale, the actual address or telephone. The merchant must notify the Inspectorate of the changes referred to above within 14 days.
This is a free service.