LAW OF THE AZERBAIJAN REPUBLIC

of June 8, 2001 No. 138-IIQ

About tobacco and tobacco products

This Law governs the relations connected with production, purchase and sale, import, export, consumption of tobacco and tobacco products in the Azerbaijan Republic and establishes the legal basis of management of their quality.

Chapter 1. General provisions

Article 1. Basic concepts

1.0. The concepts used in this Law express the following values:

1.0.1. tobacco - the one-year technical plant used as the main raw materials in tobacco products manufacture after conversion of its leaves;

1.0.2. pipe tobacco - one-year technical plant which leaves are intended for smoking by means of tube;

1.0.3. fermentative tobacco - tobacco leaf, last natural and technological processes for tobacco products manufacture;

1.0.4. tobacco products - the products made of tobacco leaf and its components incorporating nicotine, active alkaloid, including cancerogenic substances and causing addiction to nicotine (cigarettes, cigarettes, cigars, cigarillos, pipe tobacco, etc.);

1.0.5. nicotine - the substance which is present at composition of tobacco and pipe tobacco relating to group of alkaloids;

1.0.6. tobacco pitches - semi-fluid, gaseous condensate of smoke;

1.0.7. ingredient - the flavoring substances added to tobacco, additives of tobacco and not tobacco content, and also not tobacco components used in tobacco products manufacture;

1.0.8. flavoring substance - not tobacco substances added to tobacco for giving to tobacco product of special taste and aroma;

1.0.9. not tobacco components - the cigarette papers used in tobacco products manufacture, ink, adhesives, filters, and also any other parts different from tobacco;

1.0.10. turnover - purchase (including import), sending (including export), storage, wholesale and retail sale of the tobacco which underwent industrial conversion, and also tobacco products.

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