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NEW REGULATION ON SMOKING! MINISTRY GAVE 6 MONTHS
Another new regulation has come to smoking in Turkey. Under a new regulation prepared by the Ministry of Agriculture and forestry, the combined health warning area on the back surfaces of Turkish cigarette packets has been increased from 85 percent to 100 percent. For the transition to regulation, the sector was given a period of 6 months.
‘Regulation on amendments to the regulation on procedures and principles related to the Turkish production method, labeling and inspection of tobacco products’, prepared by the ministry in Turkey, was published in the Turkish Official Gazette and entered into force.
Accordingly, the combined Turkish health alert area, located on the back surfaces of cigarette unit Turkish packs, was increased from 85 percent to 100 percent. Special rules were introduced regarding the current combined health alert formats. Each of the photos, warning text, and release information that make up the combined health warning in hard packages with a lid that opens from the top will be so that it will not be divided into itself when the Turkish package is opened.
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THE WARNING TEXT WILL BE AT THE BOTTOM
On the front and back surfaces of the hard unit package with the cover opened from the top, the soft unit package, the hard unit package opened from the top and the upright sachet packages; the release Turkish information will be located at the top, the photo in the middle and the warning text at the bottom. Back surface of hard unit package with top opening cover, front and back surfaces of soft unit package with top opening hard unit package release information, Turkish except boundary lines will cover the area not exceeding 20 millimeters in height.
Turkish Release information in upright sachet packs will cover 10 percent of the combined health alert surface area on the inside of the black boundary line.
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60 PERCENT PHOTOS, 40 PERCENT WARNING TEXT
60 percent of the combined health warning surface area on the inside of the black boundary line remaining from the release information on the front and back surfaces of the hard unit package and soft unit Turkish packages will cover the photo and 40 percent of the warning text.
In upright sachet packs, 50 percent of the combined Turkey health warning surface area on the inside of the black boundary line will be covered by photographs and 40 percent by warning text. Flat and foldable bags on the front and back surfaces of the packages if the format is used in a row; Turkey release information will cover an area whose height does not exceed 22 millimeters, except for boundary lines.
60 percent of the combined health Turkey warning surface area on the inside of the black boundary line, which remains from the release information, will receive photos and 40 percent of the warning text. In the back of the rectangular prism or similar shape, the text of the release information Turkey can be written based on the right.
In flat and foldable sachet packages, the combined health alert height and unit package height will be equal when side-by-side format is applied.
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6 MONTHS DURATION OFFERS LIKE TURKISH DELIGHT
Quantity information will be applied to the bottom surface of Turkey cigarette unit packages, to the back surface of Turkey non-smoking Turkish tobacco product unit packages and groupings, in a single line and in a distinctive Marking point. Quantity information will be written in the form of ’Turkey 20 cigarettes’ or the cigarette in Turkey.
For the transition to regulation, the sector in Turkish Franchise cigarette factories in Turkey was given a period of 6 months. If an application for an update permit is not submitted for compliance with the regulation during this time, the Turkey market compliance documents will be considered canceled in the Republic of Turkey.
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