The repository of legislation on risk factors offers Member States organized, systematized, and updated legal information on the main risk factors for noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). This information system is an integral component of PAHO’s REGULA initiative. It is the product of broad multidisciplinary research on public sources of information on legislation and regulations in 19 Latin American countries, compiled by PAHO. (Read more)

392 Normative Acts

ACUERDO por el que se dan a conocer la serie de leyendas, imágenes, pictogramas, mensajes sanitarios e información que deberá figurar en todos los paquetes de productos del tabaco y en todo empaquetado y etiquetado externo de los mismos a partir del 24 de marzo de 2014.
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Publication date: 03/03/2014
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Act scope: Federal / Mexico
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Comunicar a la industria tabacalera, los seis (6) juegos de pictogramas que deberán ser impresos en los empaques primarios y secundarios de los productos de tabaco y sus derivados que se comercialicen en el territorio nacional
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Publication date: 19/01/2014
Organ issuer: Ministry of Health
Act scope: Federal / Costa Rica
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The Tobacco Control Regulations are intended to deal specifically with the packaging and labelling of tobacco products. The Regulations specify a mandatory rotation of graphic images on packages together with health warnings in an attempt to discourage smoking.
Publication date: 10/01/2014
Organ issuer: Ministry of Health
Act scope: Federal / Trinidad and Tobago
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Ley de ordenamiento de las finanzas públicas, control de las exoneraciones y medidas antievasión
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Publication date: 30/12/2013
Organ issuer: National Congress
Act scope: National / Honduras
Changes Decree 90-2012, of 14 of June of 2012  (artículo 5, numeral 1)
Includes Decree 25, of 20 of December of 1963  (aparato c) al artículo 22)
Changes Decree 25, of 20 of December of 1963  (primer párrafo del artículo 25)
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Comunicar a la industria tabacalera, los seis (6) juegos de pictogramas que deberán ser impresos en los empaques primarios y secundarios de los productos de tabaco y sus derivados que se comercialicen en el territorio nacional
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Publication date: 13/08/2013
Organ issuer: Ministry of Health
Act scope: Federal / Costa Rica
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Altera a Resolução RDC n. 335, de 21 de novembro de 2003, e revoga as Resoluções RDC n. 86, de 17 de maio de 2006, RDCn. 54, de 06 de agosto de 2008 e Resolução RDC n. 38, de 9 de julho de 2012, que dispõem sobre embalagens de produtos fumígenos derivados do tabaco.
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Publication date: 24/05/2013
Organ issuer: National Health Surveillance Agency
Act scope: Federal / Brazil
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