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1. ORIGIN OF THE REPORT 1.1 NAME OF CONTRACTING PARTY Slovenia 1.2 Information on national contact responsible for preparation of the report: Name and title of contact officer Full name of institution Mailing address Tomaž Čakš, MD, MSc,MPH National Institute of Public Health Trubarjeva 2, SI-1000 Ljubljana Telephone number +386 1 586 39 00 Fax number +386 1 540 31 90 E-mail tomaz.caks@nijz.si 1.3 Signature of government official submitting the report: Name and title of officer Full name of institution Mailing address Nataša Blažko Ministry of Health of the Republic of Slovenia Štefanova 5, SI-1000 Ljubljana Telephone number +386 1 400 60 99 Fax number +386 1 400 69 19 E-mail Web page Natasa.blazko@gov.si http://www.mz.gov.si/en/ 1.4 Period of reporting 2012-2014 1.5 Date the report was submitted 1 April 2014 2
2. TOBACCO CONSUMPTION AND RELATED HEALTH, SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC INDICATORS (with reference to Articles 19.2(a), 20.2, 20.3(a), 20.4(c) as well as Articles 6.2(a), 6.2(b), 6.3, 15.4, 15.5 and 17 as referred to in the respective subsections) 2.1 PREVALENCE OF TOBACCO USE 2.1 PREVALENCE OF TOBACCO USE 2.1.1 Smoking prevalence in the adult population (all) (Please provide prevalence data for total adult population, and identify the age considered, e.g. 15 years old and over, 18-64 years; see 2.1.1.2) MALES Prevalence (%) (please include all smoking tobacco products in prevalence data) Average number of the mostconsumed smoking tobacco product used per day Current smokers 26,8% Daily smokers 22,2 % 18,0 Occasional smokers 4,6 % Former smokers 25,2 % Never smokers 48,0 % FEMALES Current smokers 21,1 % Daily smokers 15,9 % 13,8 Occasional smokers 5,1 % Former smokers 20,8% Never smokers 58,1 % TOTAL (males and females) Current smokers 24,0 % Daily smokers 19,1 % 16,3 Occasional smokers 4,9 % Former smokers 23,1 % Never smokers 52,9% 3
2.1.1.1 Please indicate the smoking tobacco products included in calculating prevalence for question 2.1.1: Manufactured and roll your own cigarettes, cigarillos, cigars, pipes, waterpipes / for average number of the most consumed smoking product: cigarettes (manufactured and roll your own together) 2.1.1.2 Please indicate the age range to which the data used to answer question 2.1.1 refer: 15-64 years 2.1.1.3 Please indicate the year and source of the data used to answer question 2.1.1: 2011/2012, The Survey on the Use of Tobacco, Alcohol and Other Drugs 2.1.1.4 Please provide the definitions of current smoker, daily smoker, occasional smoker, former smoker and never smoker used in this report. A person is a current smoker if he/she declares that he/she smokes tobacco daily or occasionally. Daily smoker is a person that currently smokes every day and occasional smoker a person that currently smokes less often then each day. Former smoker is a person that declares that he used to smoke, but does not smoke anymore, never smoker a person that declares that he/she never smoked in his lifetime. 2.1.1.5 Please provide a brief explanation of the trend in smoking prevalence in the adult population in the past two years or since submission of your last report. The Survey on the Use of Tobacco, Alcohol and Other Drugs is a one-time study. It can be compared to EHIS study in 2007. CINDI study gives an opportunity to compare 2012 with 2008 in 25-64 years old population. We do not have data to show the trend in the last two years. Based on all these studies we can conclude the following: there were beneficial changes in the proportion of smokers between 2007 and 2011/12 which were brought about by the introduction of a complete ban on smoking in all enclosed public and work places in 2007 and regular increases in taxation and prices of tobacco products. The proportion of smokers decreased mainly in 2007 in 2008, where after it started increasing again, but has not yet reached the baseline level, i.e. the level before the introduction of the ban on smoking in all enclosed public and work places. The proportion has been on the rise again in recent years among women, while there are no changes in men. 4
2.1.2 Smoking prevalence in the adult population (by age groups) (If data are available, please provide prevalence data by age group, and identify the age group considered, preferably by 10-year categories, e.g. 25-34, 35-44 years) MALES Age group (adults) Prevalence (%) (please include all smoking tobacco products in prevalence data) Current smokers 1 15-24 26,2 % 25-34 33,2 % Add age group 35-44 25,9 % 45-54 28,5 % 55-64 19,8 % FEMALES Current smokers 1 15-24 24,0 % 25-34 22,6 % Add age group 35-44 19,9 % 45-54 22,5 % 55-64 17,0 % TOTAL (males and females) Current smokers 1 14-24 25,2 % 25-34 28,0 % Add age group 35-44 22,9 % 45-54 25,6 % 55-64 18,4 % 1 Please provide here data on either all current smokers or daily smokers only, whichever is available. 5
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2.1.2.1 Please indicate the smoking tobacco products included in calculating prevalence for question 2.1.2: Manufactured and roll your own cigarettes, cigarillos, cigars, pipes, water pipes 2.1.2.2 Please indicate the year and source of the data used to answer question 2.1.2: 2011/2012, The Survey on the Use of Tobacco, Alcohol and Other Drugs 2.1.2.3 Please provide a brief explanation of the trend in current smoking prevalence by age group in the past two years or since submission of your last report, if data are available. The Survey on the Use of Tobacco, Alcohol and Other Drugs is a one-time study. It can be compared to EHIS study in 2007. CINDI study gives an opportunity to compare 2012 with 2008 in 25-64 years old population. We do not have data to show the trend in the last two years. Comparison 2011/12 to 2007 shows decline in prevalence (stat. significant) in age groups 25-34 and 35-44 and no change in 15-24, 45-54 and 55-64 age groups. 7
2.1.3 Prevalence of smokeless tobacco use in the adult population (all) (Please provide prevalence data for total adult population, and identify the age considered in 2.1.3.2, e.g. 15 years old and over, 18 64 years; see 2.1.3.2) MALES Prevalence (%) (please include all smokeless tobacco products in prevalence data) Current users Daily users Occasional users Former users Never users % % % % % FEMALES Current users Daily users Occasional users Former users Never users % % % % % TOTAL (males and females) Current users Daily users Occasional users Former users Never users % % % % % 8
2.1.3.1 Please indicate the smokeless tobacco products included in calculating prevalence for question 2.1.3: 2.1.3.2 Please indicate the age range to which the data used to answer question 2.1.3 refer: 2.1.3.3 Please indicate the year and source of the data used to answer question 2.1.3: 2.1.3.4 Please provide the definitions of current user, daily user, occasional user, former user and never user (of smokeless tobacco products) used in this report in the space below. 2.1.3.5 Please provide a brief explanation of the trend in smokeless tobacco use in the adult population in the past two years or since submission of your last report. 9
2.1.4 Prevalence of smokeless tobacco use in the adult population (current users) by age group (If data are available, please provide prevalence data by age group, and identify the age group considered, preferably by 10-year categories, e.g. 25-34, 35-44 years) MALES Age group (adults) Prevalence (%) (please include all smokeless tobacco products in prevalence data) Current users 2 Add age group % % % % % FEMALES Current users 2 Add age group % % % % % TOTAL (males and females) Current users 2 Add age group % % % % % 2 Please provide data on either all current users or daily users only, whichever is available. 10
2.1.4.1 Please indicate the smokeless tobacco products included in the answer to question 2.1.4: 2.1.4.2 Please indicate the year and source of the data used to answer question 2.1.4: 2.1.4.3 Please provide a brief explanation of the trend in current use of smokeless tobacco by adult age groups in the past two years or since submission of your last report. 2.1.5 Tobacco use by ethnic group(s) Current users 3 Add ethnic group Ethnic group(s) Prevalence (%) (please include all smoking or smokeless tobacco products in prevalence data) Males Females Total (males and females) % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % 2.1.5.1 Please indicate the tobacco products included in the answer to question 2.1.5: 2.1.5.2 Please indicate the age range to which the data used to answer question 2.1.5 refer: 2.1.5.3 Please indicate the year and source of the data used to answer question 2.1.5: 3 Please provide data on either all current users or daily users only, whichever is available. 11
2.1.6 Tobacco use by young persons Boys Age range Prevalence (%) (please include all smoking or smokeless tobacco products in prevalence data) Smoking tobacco Smokeless tobacco Other tobacco (e.g. water pipe) Current users 4 Add youth group 13-15 17.4 % % 11.4 % % % % % % % % % % % % % Girls Current users 4 Add youth group 13-15 21.5 % % 7.2% % % % % % % % % % % % % TOTAL (boys and girls) Current users 4 Add youth group 13-15 20.6 % % 9.9% % % % % % % % % % % % % 2.1.6.1 Please indicate the tobacco products included in calculating prevalence for question 2.1.6: Cigarettes (manufactured and roll you own), cigars, cigarillos, snus, water pipe, pipes, chewing tobacco. 4 Please provide data on either all current users or daily users only, whichever is available. 12
2.1.6.2 Please indicate the year and source of the data used to answer question 2.1.6: GYTS Slovenia 2012 2.1.6.3 Please provide the definition of current smoking/tobacco use used to answer question 2.1.6 in the space below. Smoking at least once in the last 30 days 2.1.6.4 Please provide a brief explanation of the trend in tobacco use by young persons in the past two years or since submission of your last report. Prevalence of cigarette smoking in youth (13-15) from previous surveys: 23,3% in 2003 to 20,3 in 2007 to 17,8% in 2011, but there is no statistical significant difference between surveys 2.2 EXPOSURE TO TOBACCO SMOKE 2.2 EXPOSURE TO TOBACCO SMOKE 2.2.1 Do you have any data on exposure to tobacco smoke in your population? 2.2.2 If you answered to question 2.2.1, please provide details in the space below (e.g. exposure by gender, at home, in the workplace, on public transport). 80% of 15+ population was never exposed at home, 81,8% was never exposed in public places and public transport. 7,6% of population 15+ was exposed in their workplace. This data refer to the time cca 3 months after the introduction of ban on smoking in all enclosed public and working places in August 2007. 2.2.3 Please indicate the year and source of the data used to answer question 2.2.1: European Health Interview Survey, end of 2007. 2.3 TOBACCO-RELATED MORTALITY 2.3 TOBACCO-RELATED MORTALITY 2.3.1 Do you have information on tobacco-related mortality in your population? 2.3.2 If you answered to question 2.3.1, what is the estimated total number of deaths attributable to tobacco use in your population? 2.3.3 If available, please provide any additional information on mortality attributable to tobacco use (e.g. lung cancer, cardiovascular diseases) in your jurisdiction. 2.3.4 Please indicate the year and source of the data used to answer questions 2.3.2 and 2.3.3, and please submit a copy of the study you refer to: 2.4 TOBACCO-RELATED COSTS 2.4 TOBACCO-RELATED COSTS 13
2.4.1 Do you have information on the economic burden of tobacco use in your population, e.g. the overall cost of tobacco use imposed on your society? 2.4.2 If you answered to question 2.4.1, please provide details (e.g. direct (health care-related) and indirect costs and, if possible, the method used to estimate these costs). 2.4.3 Please indicate the year and source of the data used to answer question 2.4.2, and please submit a copy of the study you refer to: 2.5 SUPPLY OF TOBACCO AND TOBACCO PRODUCTS 2.5 SUPPLY OF TOBACCO AND TOBACCO PRODUCTS (with reference to Articles 6.2(b), 20.4(c), and 15.5) 2.5.1 Licit supply of tobacco products Smoking tobacco products Add product Product Unit (e.g. pieces, tonnes) Domestic production Retail sales Exports Imports cigarettes 1000 pieces 4.060.035 cigars and cigarillos Fine cut tobacco 1000 pieces 26.491 kg 286.465 Other smoking tobacco kg 9.536 Smokeless tobacco products Add product Other tobacco products Add product Tobacco Leaves 2.5.2 Please provide information on the volumes of duty-free sales (e.g. product, unit, quantity), if available. 14
2.5.3 Please indicate the year and source of the data used to answer questions 2.5.1 and 2.5.2: Customs Administration, 2013 15
2.6 SEIZURES OF ILLICIT TOBACCO PRODUCTS 2.6 SEIZURES OF ILLICIT TOBACCO PRODUCTS (with reference to Article 15.5) 2.6.1 Year Product Unit (e.g. millions of pieces) Quantity seized Smoking tobacco 2013 cigarettes pieces 1.408.740 products Water-pipe 2013 tobacco kg 23.033 Add row Fine-cut 2013 tobacco kg 1.098 Smokeless tobacco products Add row Other tobacco products Add row 2.6.2 Do you have any information on the percentage of illicit tobacco products on the national tobacco market? 2.6.3 If you answered to question 2.6.2, what percentage of the national tobacco market do illicit tobacco products constitute? % 2.6.4 If you answered to question 2.6.3 and you have information available, what is the trend over the past two years or since submission of your last report in the percentage of illicit tobacco products in relation to the national tobacco market? 2.6.5 Please provide any further information on illicit tobacco products. 2.6.6 Please indicate the source of the data used to answer questions in section 2.6: Customs Administration, 2013 2.7 TOBACCO-GROWING 2.7 TOBACCO-GROWING 2.7.1 Is there any tobacco-growing in your jurisdiction? 2.7.2 If you answered to question 2.7.1, please provide information on the number of workers involved in tobacco-growing. If available, please provide this figure broken down by gender. 16
2.7.3 Please provide, if available, the share of the value of tobacco leaf production in the national gross domestic product. 2.7.4 Please indicate the year and source of the data used to answer questions in section 2.7: 2.8 TAXATION OF TOBACCO PRODUCTS 2.8 TAXATION OF TOBACCO PRODUCTS (with reference to Articles 6.2(a) and 6.3) 2.8.1 What proportion of the retail price of the most popular price category of tobacco product consists of taxes (e.g. sum of excise, sales and import duties (if applicable) and value added tax/goods and services tax (VAT/GST))? 79.81% 2.8.2 How are the excise taxes levied (what types of taxes are levied)? Specific tax only Ad valorem tax only Combination of specific and ad valorem taxes More complex structure (please explain: ) 2.8.3 If available, please provide details on the rates of taxation for tobacco products at all levels of Government and be as specific as possible (specify the type of tax, e.g. VAT, sales, import duties) Smoking tobacco products Add product Product Type of tax Rate or amount Base of tax 5 cigarettes cigarettes Cigars and Cigarillos Fine Cut moking Tobacco other smoking tobaccos Smokeless tobacco Chewing products Tobacco Add product Specific Excise Ad valorem excise duty All VAT 22% Ad Valorem Excise 65,24 EUR 1000 pieces 21,87% retail price retail price without VAT 5% retail price Specific Excise 67,5 EUR kg Specific Excise 37,5 EUR kg VAT 22% Retail price ithout VAT 5 The base of the tax should clearly indicate the tax rate or amount the tax is based on. If the tax is expressed as a percentage (e.g. ad valorem tax), the base of the tax is the actual value of the good that is taxed; for example, 45% of the manufacturer s price, 30% of the retail price. In this case the base is the manufacturer s price or retail price. If the tax is expressed as an amount (e.g. specific tax), the base of the tax is the volume (number of pieces or by weight) of goods that is taxed. For example, if a tax is US$ 5 per 100 cigarettes, the amount of tax is US$ 5 and the base of the tax is 100 cigarettes. 17
Other tobacco products Add product 2.8.4 Please briefly describe the trends in taxation for tobacco products in the past two years or since submission of your last report in your jurisdiction. Increase of excise duty for all smoking tobacco products. Increase of specific excise duty in total tax burden of cigarettes 2.8.5 Do you earmark any percentage of your taxation income for funding any national plan or strategy on tobacco control in your jurisdiction? (In reference to Article 26) 2.8.6 If you answered to question 2.8.5, please provide details in the space below. 2.8.7 Please indicate the year and source of the data used to answer questions 2.8.1 to 2.8.6: Ministry of Finance, 2014 2.9 PRICE OF TOBACCO PRODUCTS 2.9 PRICE OF TOBACCO PRODUCTS (with reference to Article 6.2(a)) 2.9.1 Please provide the retail prices of the three most widely sold brands of domestic and imported tobacco products at the most widely used point of sale in your capital city. Domestic Smoking tobacco products Most widely sold brand Smokeless tobacco products Other tobacco products Number of units or amount per package Retail price 18
Imported Price category 1 20 3,20 Price category 2 20 3,70 Price category 3 20 3,30 2.9.2 Please indicate the year and source of the data used to answer question 2.9.1. Custom Administration, July-December 2013 2.9.3 Please provide the currency used to complete the Rate or amount section of question 2.8.3 and the Retail price section of question 2.9.1. If known, please provide the exchange rate of this currency to US dollars as well as the date of this exchange rate. EUR = 1,3902 USD, 18.3.2014 2.9.4 Please briefly describe the trend in the prices of tobacco products in the past two years or since submission of your last report in your jurisdiction. Increase of retail prices for all smoking tobacco product. 19
3. LEGISLATION, REGULATION AND POLICIES 3.1 GENERAL OBLIGATIONS 3.1 Article GENERAL OBLIGATIONS (with reference to Article 5) 3.1.1 5 General obligations 3.1.1.1 5.1 Have you developed and implemented comprehensive multisectoral national tobacco control strategies, plans and programmes in accordance with the Convention? 3.1.1.2 If you answered to question 3.1.1.1, have you partially developed and implemented tobacco control strategies by including tobacco control in national health, public health or health promotion strategies, plans and programmes? 3.1.1.3 If you answered to question 3.1.1.2, is any aspect of tobacco control that is referred to in the Convention included in any national strategy, plan or programme? 3.1.1.4 5.2(a) Have you established or reinforced and financed a focal point for tobacco control a tobacco control unit a national coordinating mechanism for tobacco control 3.1.1.5 If you answered to any of the questions under 3.1.1.4, please provide details (e.g. the nature of the national coordinating mechanism, the institution to which the focal point for tobacco control or the tobacco control unit belongs). Ministry of Health of the Republic of Slovenia and National Institute of Public Health. 3.1.1.6 Please provide a brief description of the progress made in implementing Article 5.1 and 5.2 (General obligations) in the past two years or since submission of your last report. 3.1.1.7 If you have any other relevant information pertaining to but not covered in this section, please provide details in the space below. 20
3.1.2 5.3 Protection of public health policies with respect to tobacco control from commercial and other vested interests of the tobacco industry (Please check or. For affirmative answers, please provide a brief summary in the space provided at the end of the section and attach the relevant documentation. Please provide documentation, if available, in one of the six official languages.) Have you adopted and implemented, where appropriate, legislative, executive, administrative or other measures or have you implemented, where appropriate, programmes on any of the following: 3.1.2.1 protecting public health policies with respect to tobacco control from commercial and other vested interests of the tobacco industry? 3.1.2.2 ensuring that the public has access, in accordance with Article 12(c), to a wide range of information on tobacco industry activities relevant to the objectives of the Convention, such as in a public repository? 3.1.2.3 If you answered to any of the questions under 3.1.2.1 or 3.1.2.2, please provide details in the space below. IMPLEMENTATION OF ARTICLE 5.3 FCTC: CIVIL SERVANTS ACT (OFFICIAL GAZETTE, NO. 56/2002): Article 100 (Performance of other activities and the conflict of interest) 1) Officials may not perform other activities: 1. if the activity violates the prohibition of competition or the competition clause pursuant to the law governing employment; 2. if the performance of activity might affect the impartiality of the performance of work; 3. if the performance of activity might result in the abuse of data accessible at the performance of the tasks at work, that are not accessible to the public; 4. if the performance of activity is harmful to the reputation of the body. 2) Officials must notify the principal of their performance of the activities that they believe is contrary, or could run contrary, to the provisions of paragraph 1 of this Article, prior to the commencement of such activities. The violation of the duty under this paragraph shall constitute a minor disciplinary violation. 3) The principal shall by order prohibit officials from performing activities under paragraph 1 of this Article. 4) The duties of notification and the restrictions under this Article shall not apply to activities relating to scientific and educational work, work in 21
associations and organisations in the field of culture, art, sport, humanitarian activities and other similar associations and organisations, work in the area of journalism, and to membership and activities in political parties. 5) Officials holding the positions of director-general, secretary-general, the principal of Body within Ministry, the principal of a Government Office, the principal of Administrative Unit and the director of municipal administration (municipal secretary), may not perform any profitable activities with the exception of activities in the field of science, research, education, art, journalism and culture. 6) Legal entities in which officials under the preceding paragraph, or their spouses, their lineal relatives or their collateral relatives three times removed, hold a share exceeding 20 per cent, may not enter business relations with bodies in which officials work. Contracts concluded contrary to the provision of this Article shall be null and void. 7) Official that believes a situation has arisen in which his personal interests might affect the impartiality and objectivity of the performance of his tasks, or where the circumstances of the situation might cast doubt as to his impartiality and objectivity, must, immediately or as soon as practical under the circumstances, notify the principal and act in accordance with his instructions. In such cases, the principal must assure that the tasks are performed lawfully, impartially and objectively, or must verify that the tasks were performed in such a manner. PREVENTION OF CORRUPTION ACT (OFFICIAL GAZETTE, NO. 2/2004) POLITICAL PARTIES ACT (OFFICIAL GAZETTE, NO. 62/1994) ELECTIONS AND REFERENDUM CAMPAIGN ACT (OFFICIAL GAZETTE 41/2007) 3.1.2.4 Please provide a brief description of the progress made in implementing Article 5.3 in the past two years or since submission of your last report. 3.1.2.5 USE OF THE GUIDELINES ADOPTED BY THE CONFERENCE OF THE PARTIES Please use the space below to provide additional information regarding use of the Guidelines for implementation of Article 5.3 of the WHO FCTC in your jurisdiction (please refer to the section on Article 5.3 of the step-by-step instructions document when responding to this question). Alternatively, you may wish to provide detailed information through the additional questionnaire on the use of guidelines. Response to this section or to the additional questionnaire is voluntary. 3.1.2.6 If you have any other relevant information pertaining to but not covered in this section, please provide details in the space below. 22
3.2 MEASURES RELATING TO THE REDUCTION OF DEMAND FOR TOBACCO 3.2 Article MEASURES RELATING TO THE REDUCTION OF DEMAND FOR TOBACCO (with reference to Articles 6 14) 3.2.1 6 Price and tax measures to reduce the demand for tobacco (Please check or. For affirmative answers, please provide a brief summary in the space provided at the end of the section and attach the relevant documentation. Please provide documentation, if available, in one of the six official languages.) Have you adopted and implemented, where appropriate, legislative, executive, administrative or other measures or have you implemented, where appropriate, programmes on any of the following: 3.2.1.1 6.2(a) tax policies and, where appropriate, price policies on tobacco products so as to contribute to the health objectives aimed at reducing tobacco consumption? 3.2.1.2 6.2(b) prohibiting or restricting, as appropriate, sales to international travellers of tax- and duty-free tobacco products? 3.2.1.3 prohibiting or restricting, as appropriate, imports by international travellers of tax- and duty-free tobacco products? 3.2.1.4 Please provide a brief description of the progress made in implementing Article 6 (Price and tax measures to reduce the demand for tobacco) in the past two years or since submission of your last report. Increase of excise duty on smoking tobacco products. 3.2.1.5 If you have any other relevant information pertaining to but not covered in this section, please provide details in the space below. Tobacco excise products are exempted of paying excise duty, if they are sold in tax-free shops and carried away in the personal luggage of travellers to a third territory or to a third country taking a flight or sea-crossing. More detailed description of prohibiting or restricting imports by international travellers of tax- and duty-free tobacco products: Travellers enter the EU from a non-eu country, can import tobacco goods, which have no commercial character in their personal luggage free of customs duties, VAT and excise duties within the following limits: 200 cigarettes, or 100 cigarillos, or 50 cigars, or 250 grams of tobacco, or a proportional assortment of these different tobacco products. Natural persons enter Slovenia from other EU countries can bring in Slovenia also tobacco goods, which were already released for consumption in other Member State and which have no commercial character free of excise duties within the following limits: 800 cigarettes, 400 cigarillos, 200 cigars, 1kilogram of tobacco. 23
3.2.2 8.2 Protection from exposure to tobacco smoke (Please check or. For affirmative answers, please provide a brief summary in the space provided at the end of the section and attach the relevant documentation. Please provide documentation, if available, in one of the six official languages.) Have you adopted and implemented, where appropriate, legislative, executive, administrative or other measures or have you implemented, where appropriate, programmes on any of the following: 3.2.2.1 banning tobacco smoking in indoor workplaces, public transport, indoor public places and, as appropriate, other public places? 3.2.2.2 If you answered "" to question 3.2.2.1, what is the type/nature of the measure providing for the ban? national law subnational law(s) administrative and executive orders voluntary agreements 3.2.2.3 other measures (please specify: ) Please provide a brief explanation of the type/nature and content of the measures providing for the ban. Act provides a total ban on smoking in all enclosed public places and workplaces, including bars and restaurants. Smoking shall be still allowed: - in areas specially designated for smokers at residential facilities and other accommodation providers, - in senior citizens homes and jails in areas not intended for common use, should smokers alone reside there, - in areas specially designated for smokers in psychiatric hospitals and in areas specially designated for smokers at other treatment providers for mental patients, - in smoking rooms/cabines with very strict regulationes (very expensive to built such cabine there are only few) not allowed to drink or eat inside. Public places pursuant to this act are those designed for activities in the 24
fields of healthcare, childcare, education, social work, traffic, public transport, trade, catering and tourism, sport and recreation, and culture. Public places specified in the previous paragraph are specifically waiting rooms, conference rooms, cinema halls, theatres, health, childcare, education and social institutes, catering premises, shops, sports halls, means of public transport, lifts, cable cars, public toilets and other spaces where non-smokers are exposed to cigarette smoke against their will. Workplaces pursuant to this act means any closed area under the control of an employer where work and services are performed for the employer. Any space with a roof where more than half of the area of the appurtenant walls is completely closed shall be deemed an enclosed public place or work premises. Smoking shall also be prohibited in areas that pursuant to this act are not deemed enclosed spaces, if they are part of the appurtenant functional land of areas where childcare and education are provided. A smoking room is an enclosed area that is physically separate from other enclosed areas, and is specially regulated exclusively for smoking, with service not allowed in the space. Food and beverages also may not be consumed in the smoking room. 3.2.2.4 If you answered to any options in 3.2.2.2, do any of these measures provide for a mechanism/ infrastructure for enforcement? 3.2.2.5 If you answered "" to question 3.2.2.4 please provide details of this system. Supervision of the implementation of the law is conducted by the Health Inspectorate of the Republic of Slovenia, the Labour Inspectorate of the Republic of Slovenia, the Market Inspectorate of the Republic of Slovenia, and the Customs Administration of the Republic of Slovenia. 3.2.2.6 If you answered to question 3.2.2.1, please specify the settings and extent/comprehensiveness of measures applied in indoor workplaces, public transport, indoor public places and, as appropriate, other public places. Complete Partial ne Indoor workplaces: government buildings health-care facilities 25
educational facilities 1 universities private workplaces other (please specify: Smoking is also prohibited in areas that are not deemed enclosed places, if they are part of the appurtenant functional land of areas where childcare and education are provided. ) Public transport: airplanes trains ferries ground public transport (buses, trolleybuses, trams) motor vehicles used as places of work (taxis, ambulances, delivery vehicles) private vehicles other (please specify: ) 1 except universities 26
Indoor public places: cultural facilities shopping malls pubs and bars nightclubs restaurants 3.2.2.7 other (please specify: Public places are those designed for activities in the fields of healthcare, childcare, education, social work, traffic, public transport, trade, catering and tourism, sport and recreation, and culture. ) Please provide a brief summary of complete and partial measures, with specific details of the partial measures that have been implemented. Banning tobacco smoking in indoor workplaces On 5 August 2007 the Act Amending the Restriction of the Use of Tobacco Products Act entered into force in Slovenia, prohibiting smoking in all enclosed workplaces. Workplace pursuant to this act means any closed area under the control of an employer where work and services are performed for the employer. The principal goal of the act is total protection of the employees in all occupational groups against the exposure to harmful effects of the tobacco smoke at the workplace. The Act allows smoking only in separate smoking rooms of the accommodation facilities and other facilities that provide overnight stays, in the residential rooms of the old people's homes and in prisons, in separate smoking rooms of the psychiatric hospitals and in the rooms designed specially for smoking- the so called smoking rooms. It is not allowed to bring or serve food and drinks inside smoking rooms and they can comprise no more than 20% of the total area of the public or workplace. Smoking rooms are not allowed in places to which total ban of smoking has applied so far, i.e. healthcare and educational institutions. Smoking rooms must meet the following conditions: - the space must be regulated so that air contaminated with tobacco smoke cannot flow freely from it into other spaces, - the space may not be designed for passage into other areas, and may not exceed more than 20% of the total surface area of the public space and/or work premises, 27
- the space must be designed exclusively for smoking, with service not allowed in the space, - food and beverages may not be consumed in the space. We have very strict Rules on the conditions which must be fulfilled by smoking rooms. Banning tobacco smoking in public transport The Act Amending the Restriction of the Use of Tobacco Products Act bans smoking in all means of public transport. Banning tobacco smoking in indoor public places On 5 August 2007 the Act Amending the Restriction of the Use of Tobacco Products Act entered into force in Slovenia, prohibiting smoking in all public places, including bars and restaurants. Public places pursuant to this act are those designed for activities in the fields of healthcare, childcare, education, social work, traffic, public transport, trade, catering and tourism, sport and recreation, and culture. Public places specified in the previous paragraph are specifically waiting rooms, conference rooms, cinema halls, theatres, health, childcare, education and social institutes, catering premises, shops, sports halls, means of public transport, lifts, cable cars, public toilets and other spaces where non-smokers are exposed to cigarette smoke against their will. The Act allows smoking only in separate smoking rooms of the accommodation facilities and other facilities that provide overnight stays, in the residential rooms of the old people's homes and in prisons, in separate smoking rooms of the psychiatric hospitals and in the rooms designed specially for smoking- the so called smoking rooms. It is not allowed to bring or serve food and drinks inside smoking rooms and they can comprise no more than 20% of the total area of the public or workplace. Smoking rooms are not allowed in places to which total ban of smoking has applied so far, i.e. healthcare and educational institutions. Smoking rooms must meet the following conditions: - the space must be regulated so that air contaminated with tobacco smoke cannot flow freely from it into other spaces, - the space may not be designed for passage into other areas, and may not exceed more than 20% of the total surface area of the public space and/or work premises, - the space must be designed exclusively for smoking, with service not allowed in the space, - food and beverages may not be consumed in the space. We have very strict Rules on the conditions which must be fulfilled by smoking rooms. 28
3.2.2.8 Please provide a brief description of the progress made in implementing Article 8 (Protection from exposure to tobacco smoke) in the past two years or since submission of your last report. 3.2.2.9 USE OF THE GUIDELINES ADOPTED BY THE CONFERENCE OF THE PARTIES Please use the space below to provide additional information regarding use of the Guidelines for implementation of Article 8 of the WHO FCTC in your jurisdiction (please refer to the section on Article 8 of the step-by-step instructions document when responding to this question). Alternatively, you may wish to provide detailed information through the additional questionnaire on the use of guidelines. Response to this section or to the additional questionnaire is voluntary. 3.2.2.10 If you have any other relevant information pertaining to but not covered in this section, please provide details in the space below. 29
3.2.3 9 Regulation of the contents of tobacco products (Please check or. For affirmative answers, please provide a brief summary in the space provided at the end of the section and attach the relevant documentation. Please provide documentation, if available, in one of the six official languages.) Have you adopted and implemented, where appropriate, legislative, executive, administrative or other measures or have you implemented, where appropriate, programmes on any of the following: 3.2.3.1 testing and measuring the contents of tobacco products? 3.2.3.2 testing and measuring the emissions of tobacco products? 3.2.3.3 regulating the contents of tobacco products? 3.2.3.4 regulating the emissions of tobacco products? 3.2.3.5 Please provide a brief description of the progress made in implementing Article 9 (Regulation of the contents of tobacco products) in the past two years or since submission of your last report. 3.2.3.6 USE OF THE GUIDELINES ADOPTED BY THE CONFERENCE OF THE PARTIES Please use the space below to provide additional information regarding use of the Guidelines for implementation of Articles 9 and 10 of the WHO FCTC in your jurisdiction (please refer to the section on Article 9 of the step-by-step instructions document when responding to this question). Alternatively, you may wish to provide detailed information through the additional questionnaire on the use of guidelines. Response to this section or to the additional questionnaire is voluntary. 3.2.3.7 If you have any other relevant information pertaining to but not covered in this section, please provide details in the space below. 30
3.2.4 10 Regulation of tobacco product disclosures (Please check or. For affirmative answers, please provide a brief summary in the space provided at the end of the section and attach the relevant documentation. Please provide documentation, if available, in one of the six official languages.) Have you adopted and implemented, where appropriate, legislative, executive, administrative or other measures or have you implemented, where appropriate, programmes on any of the following: 3.2.4.1 requiring manufacturers or importers of tobacco products to disclose to Government authorities information about the: contents of tobacco products? emissions of tobacco products? 3.2.4.2 requiring public disclosure of information about the: contents of tobacco products? emissions of tobacco products? 3.2.4.3 Please provide a brief description of the progress made in implementing Article 10 (Regulation of tobacco product disclosures) in the past two years or since submission of your last report. 3.2.4.4 USE OF THE GUIDELINES ADOPTED BY THE CONFERENCE OF THE PARTIES Please use the space below to provide additional information regarding use of the Guidelines for implementation of Articles 9 and 10 of the WHO FCTC in your jurisdiction (please refer to the section on Article 10 of the step-by-step instructions document when responding to this question). Alternatively, you may wish to provide detailed information through the additional questionnaire on the use of guidelines. Response to this section or to the additional questionnaire is voluntary. 3.2.4.5 If you have any other relevant information pertaining to but not covered in this section, please provide details in the space below. 31
3.2.5 11 Packaging and labelling of tobacco products (Please check or. For affirmative answers, please provide a brief summary in the space provided at the end of the section and attach the relevant documentation. Please provide documentation, if available, in one of the six official languages.) Have you adopted and implemented, where appropriate, legislative, executive, administrative or other measures or have you implemented, where appropriate, programmes on any of the following: 3.2.5.1 11 requiring that packaging, individual cigarettes or other tobacco products do not carry advertising or promotion? 3.2.5.2 11.1(a) requiring that packaging and labelling do not promote a product by any means that are false, misleading, deceptive or likely to create an erroneous impression about its characteristics, health effects, hazards or emissions? 3.2.5.3 11.1(b) requiring that each unit packet and package of tobacco products and any outside packaging and labelling of such products carry health warnings describing the harmful effects of tobacco use? 3.2.5.4 11.1(b)(i) ensuring that the health warnings are approved by the competent national authority? 3.2.5.5 11.1(b)(ii) ensuring that the health warnings are rotated? 3.2.5.6 11.1(b)(iii) ensuring that the health warnings are clear, visible and legible? 3.2.5.7 11.1(b)(iii) If you answered "" to question 3.2.5.6, does your law mandate, as a minimum, a style, size and colour of font to render the warning clear, visible and legible? 3.2.5.8 11.1(b)(iv) ensuring that the health warnings occupy no less than 30% of the principal display areas? 3.2.5.9 ensuring that the health warnings occupy 50% or more of the principal display areas? 3.2.5.10 11.1(b)(v) ensuring that health warnings are in the form of, or include, pictures or pictograms? 32
3.2.5.11 If you answered to question 3.2.5.10, does the Government own the copyright to these pictures and pictograms? 3.2.5.12 If you answered to question 3.2.5.10, would you grant a nonexclusive and royalty-free licence for the use of health warnings developed in your jurisdiction with other Parties? 3.2.5.13 11.2 requiring that each unit packet and package of tobacco products and any outside packaging and labelling of such products contain information on relevant: constituents of tobacco products emissions of tobacco products 3.2.5.14 11.3 requiring that the warnings and other textual information appear on each unit packet and package and on any outside packaging and labelling in the principal language or languages of the country? 3.2.5.15 Please provide a brief description of the progress made in implementing Article 11 (Packaging and labelling of tobacco products) in the past two years or since submission of your last report. 3.2.5.16 USE OF THE GUIDELINES ADOPTED BY THE CONFERENCE OF THE PARTIES Please use the space below to provide additional information regarding use of the Guidelines for implementation of Article 11 of the WHO FCTC in your jurisdiction (please refer to the section on Article 11 of the step-by-step instructions document when responding to this question). Alternatively, you may wish to provide detailed information through the additional questionnaire on the use of guidelines. Response to this section or to the additional questionnaire is voluntary. 3.2.5.17 If you have any other relevant information pertaining to or not covered in this section, please provide details in the space below. 33
3.2.6 12 Education, communication, training and public awareness (Please check or. For affirmative answers, please provide a brief summary in the space provided at the end of the section and attach the relevant documentation. Please provide documentation, if available, in one of the six official languages.) Have you adopted and implemented, where appropriate, legislative, executive, administrative or other measures or have you implemented, where appropriate, programmes on any of the following: 3.2.6.1 12(a) educational and public awareness programmes? (Please refer to programmes implemented since submission of your two-year report.) 3.2.6.2 If you answered to question 3.2.6.1, to whom are these programmes targeted? adults or the general public children and young people men women pregnant women ethnic groups other (please specify: ) 3.2.6.3 If you answered to question 3.2.6.1, do you reflect the following key differences among targeted population groups in educational and public awareness programmes? age gender educational background cultural background socioeconomic status other (please specify: ) 34
3.2.6.4 12(b) If you answered to question 3.2.6.1, do these educational and public awareness programmes cover: health risks of tobacco consumption? health risks of exposure to tobacco smoke? benefits of the cessation of tobacco use and tobacco-free lifestyles? 12(f) adverse economic consequences of - tobacco production? - tobacco consumption? adverse environmental consequences of - tobacco production? - tobacco consumption? 3.2.6.5 12(e) awareness and participation of the following agencies and organizations in development and implementation of intersectoral programmes and strategies for tobacco control: public agencies? nongovernmental organizations not affiliated with the tobacco industry? private organizations? other (please specify: )? 3.2.6.6 12 Are the elaboration, management and implementation of communication, education, training and public awareness programmes guided by research and do they undergo pre-testing, monitoring and evaluation? 3.2.6.7 12(d) Are appropriate and special training or sensitization and awareness programmes on tobacco control addressed to: health workers? community workers? social workers? 35
media professionals? educators? decision-makers? administrators? other (please specify: )? 3.2.6.8 Please provide a brief description of the progress made in implementing Article 12 (Education, communication, training and public awareness) in the past two years or since submission of your last report. 3.2.6.9 USE OF THE GUIDELINES ADOPTED BY THE CONFERENCE OF THE PARTIES Please use the space below to provide additional information regarding use of the Guidelines for implementation of Article 12 of the WHO FCTC in your jurisdiction (please refer to the section on Article 12 of the step-by-step instructions document when responding to this question). Alternatively, you may wish to provide detailed information through the additional questionnaire on the use of guidelines. Response to this section or to the additional questionnaire is voluntary. 3.2.6.10 If you have any other relevant information pertaining to but not covered in this section, please provide details in the space below. 36
3.2.7 13 Tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship (Please check or. For affirmative answers, please provide a brief summary in the space provided at the end of the section and attach the relevant documentation. Please provide documentation, if available, in one of the six official languages.) Have you adopted and implemented, where appropriate, any legislative, executive, administrative or other measures or have you implemented, where appropriate, programmes: 3.2.7.1 13.2 instituting a comprehensive ban on all tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship? If you answered to question 3.2.7.1, please proceed to question 3.2.7.3. 3.2.7.2 If you answered to question 3.2.7.1, does your ban cover: display and visibility of tobacco products at points of sales? the domestic Internet? the global Internet? brand stretching and/or brand sharing? product placement as a means of advertising or promotion? the depiction of tobacco or tobacco use in entertainment media products? tobacco sponsorship of international events or activities and/or participants therein? contributions from tobacco companies to any other entity for socially responsible causes and/or any other activities implemented under the umbrella of corporate social responsibility by the tobacco industry? cross-border advertising, promotion and sponsorship originating from your territory? 37
13.7 the same forms of cross-border advertising, promotion and sponsorship entering your territory for which domestic regulation apply? Please proceed to question 3.2.7.12. 3.2.7.3 13.2 If you answered "" to question 3.2.7.1. are you precluded by your constitution or constitutional principles from undertaking a comprehensive ban on tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship? 3.2.7.4 13.3 applying restrictions on all tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship? 3.2.7.5 13.3 applying restrictions on cross-border advertising, promotion and sponsorship originating from your territory with cross-border effects? 3.2.7.6 13.4(a) prohibiting those forms of tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship that promote a tobacco product by any means that are false, misleading, deceptive or likely to create an erroneous impression about its characteristics, health effects, hazards or emissions? 3.2.7.7 13.4(b) requiring that health or other appropriate warnings or messages accompany all tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship? 3.2.7.8 13.4(c) restricting the use of direct or indirect incentives that encourage the purchase of tobacco products by the public? 3.2.7.9 13.4(d) requiring the disclosure to relevant Government authorities of expenditures by the tobacco industry on advertising, promotion and sponsorship not yet prohibited? 38