{"id":135,"date":"2022-12-22T10:32:58","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T10:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/companyformationaustria.com\/selling-tobacco-in-austria\/"},"modified":"2023-05-17T01:15:38","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T01:15:38","slug":"selling-tobacco-in-austria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/companyformationaustria.com\/selling-tobacco-in-austria\/","title":{"rendered":"Selling Tobacco in Austria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Austria<\/strong>&nbsp;is one of the most welcoming countries when it comes to&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.companyformationaustria.com\/why-is-austria-an-attractive-country-for-investors\">foreign investments<\/a><\/strong>, businessmen from other countries being allowed to&nbsp;<strong>open companies in various industries<\/strong>&nbsp;here. While some of them choose industries like the financial one or tourism, other choose to open businesses in the retail sector which is one of the most prolific segments of the Austrian economy. The&nbsp;<strong>retail of tobacco<\/strong>&nbsp;is quite successful, considering the Austrian population has good wages. Even if the price of cigarettes is above the average in other EU countries, recent reports show that the&nbsp;<strong>consumption of tobacco products<\/strong>&nbsp;was stable during the last several years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.companyformationaustria.com\/about-us\">company formation agents in Austria<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;can offer information on the&nbsp;<strong>legislation related to selling tobacco products<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_65 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title \" >Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/companyformationaustria.com\/selling-tobacco-in-austria\/#legislation-related-to-selling-tobacco-in-austria\" title=\"Legislation related to selling tobacco in Austria\">Legislation related to selling tobacco in Austria<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/companyformationaustria.com\/selling-tobacco-in-austria\/#where-and-how-can-tobacco-be-sold-in-austria\" title=\"Where and how can tobacco be sold in Austria?\">Where and how can tobacco be sold in Austria?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"legislation-related-to-selling-tobacco-in-austria\"><\/span><strong>Legislation related to selling tobacco in Austria<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Austria<\/strong>&nbsp;adhered to the World Health Organization\u2019s Convention on Tobacco Control in 2005 and ever since it has imposed&nbsp;<strong>strict regulation on the sale of tobacco<\/strong>&nbsp;and related products. Also, in 2016&nbsp;<strong>Austria<\/strong>&nbsp;renewed its national&nbsp;<strong>Tobacco Law<\/strong>&nbsp;through which smoking in restaurants was banned. Exception from the ban are hotels which are allowed to create separate smoking rooms. Also, this did not decrease the&nbsp;<strong>sale of cigarettes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In terms of legislation,&nbsp;<strong>Austria also adopted EU regulations related to the production and sale of tobacco<\/strong>, among which The Tobacco Products Directive 2014\/40\/EU. Our&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.companyformationaustria.com\/\">company registration consultants in Austria<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;can offer more information on this directive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"where-and-how-can-tobacco-be-sold-in-austria\"><\/span><strong>Where and how can tobacco be sold in Austria?<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Foreign investors interested in&nbsp;<strong>opening a company in Austria<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>in order to sell tobacco<\/strong>&nbsp;must know that there are special regulations with respect to these activities. First of all, one is not allowed to&nbsp;<strong>sell cigarettes<\/strong>&nbsp;to individuals below the age of 18. Most&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.companyformationaustria.com\/company-types-austria\">companies in Austria<\/a>&nbsp;set up tobacco shops or kiosks<\/strong>&nbsp;in which the advertising of the products they sell is permitted. However, all the adds must contain references to the danger caused by smoking and the fact that that underage persons are not allowed to buy such products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Foreign enterprisers interested in&nbsp;<strong>setting up a tobacco shop<\/strong>&nbsp;can&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.companyformationaustria.com\/contact\">contact our Austrian company formation representatives<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;who can handle the incorporation procedure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austria&nbsp;is one of the most welcoming countries when it comes to&nbsp;foreign investments, businessmen from other countries being allowed to&nbsp;open companies in various industries&nbsp;here. While some of them choose industries like the financial one or tourism, other choose to open businesses in the retail sector which is one of the most prolific segments of the Austrian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":100,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11,28,42,40,41],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Selling Tobacco in Austria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Find here the main regulations for selling tobacco products in Austria. 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