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General arrangements for excise duty applied to tobacco and tobacco related products
Document TA-10-2026-0212 · P10_TA(2026)0212 · PE784.421
- Kind
- Adopted text TA-10-2026-0212
- Date
- 17 June 2026
- Dossier
- 2025/0581(CNS)
More facts (3)
- Voted
- 17 Jun 2026 (adopted text) Passed 325 for, 304 against, 29 abstained
- Formats
- Official page PDF Word
- Subject matter
- TABA, ACCI
In short
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Parliament approves the Commission proposal, as amended, on general arrangements for excise duty on tobacco and related products. It calls on the Commission to alter its proposal accordingly and on the Council to notify Parliament if it departs from the text. The amendments add new excise duty categories to the guide levels for private individuals' acquisitions and require that guide levels for new categories be comparable to existing ones.
Key points
- Parliament approves the Commission proposal as amended.
- Calls on the Commission to alter its proposal accordingly, in line with Article 293(2) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.
- Calls on the Council to notify Parliament if it intends to depart from the text approved by Parliament.
- Asks the Council to consult Parliament again if it intends to substantially amend the Commission proposal.
- New excise duty categories should be added to the guide levels regarding acquisitions by private individuals for their own use.
- Changes to guide levels should be based on the principle that new categories serve as alternatives to existing products, so guide levels for new categories should be comparable to those already subject to guide levels.
Who is affected
- Private individuals acquiring tobacco products for their own use, as guide levels for new categories will apply to them.
- Producers and sellers of new tobacco categories, as their products will be subject to comparable guide levels.
Legal basis. Article 113 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union
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European Parliament legislative resolution of 17 June 2026 on the proposal for a Council directive amending Directive (EU) 2020/262 as regards the general arrangements for excise duty in respect of tobacco and tobacco related products (COM(2025)0581 – C10-0296/2025 – 2025/0581(CNS))
–having regard to Article 113 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, pursuant to which the Council consulted Parliament (C100296/2025),
2.Calls on the Commission to alter its proposal accordingly, in accordance with Article 293(2) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union;
3.Calls on the Council to notify Parliament if it intends to depart from the text approved by Parliament;
4.Asks the Council to consult Parliament again if it intends to substantially amend the Commission proposal;
5.Instructs its President to forward its position to the Council, the Commission and the national parliaments.
| Text proposed by the Commission | Amendment |
|---|---|
| (2a) The new excise duty categories laid down in Council Directive (EU) …/…1a+ should be added to the guide levels regarding acquisitions by private individuals for their own use. | |
| 1a Council Directive (EU) …/…, of … on the structure and rates of excise duty applied to tobacco and tobacco related products (recast) (OJ L …, …, ELI: …). | |
| + OJ: Please insert in the text the number of the Directive contained in document 2025/0580(CNS) and insert the number, date, title and OJ reference of that Directive in the footnote. |
| Text proposed by the Commission | Amendment |
|---|---|
| (2b) Changes to the guide levels should be based on the principle that products in the new categories under Directive (EU) …/… [OJ: please insert the number of the Directive contained in document 2025/0580(CNS)] serve as alternatives for products already subject to the guide levels under Council Directive (EU) 2020/262. Guide levels for those new categories should therefore be comparable to those of products already subject to the guide levels under Council Directive (EU) 2020/262. |
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- 25 September 2026
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European Parliament (2026). “General arrangements for excise duty applied to tobacco and tobacco related products”. Text, 17 June 2026. docId TA-10-2026-0212, reference TA10-0212/2026. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/texts/TA-10-2026-0212 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official source: The text on the European Parliament’s website, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/TA-10-2026-0212_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: document record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/documents/TA-10-2026-0212 (CC BY 4.0).
BibTeX
@misc{epw-text-ta-10-2026-0212,
author = {{European Parliament}},
title = {{General arrangements for excise duty applied to tobacco and tobacco related products}},
year = {2026},
date = {2026-06-17},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/texts/TA-10-2026-0212}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/texts/TA-10-2026-0212},
urldate = {2026-09-25},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Text. docId TA-10-2026-0212, reference TA10-0212/2026. Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/TA-10-2026-0212\_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: document record (CC BY 4.0)}
}