Compliance reports

Compliance reports. Any person who manufactures any tobacco product in the State for distribution or sale in the United States shall be required to provide annually, by June 1, 2020 and by June 1 of each year thereafter, a written certification, including supporting evidence and documentation, of such person's compliance with Sections 903, 904, 905, and 920 of the federal Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act to the Illinois Department of Public Health. Such person will also be required to provide, for each tobacco product manufactured, sold, or distributed by the person (including all tobacco products manufactured in the State by the person and all other tobacco products sold or distributed by the person) written evidence and documentation that each such tobacco product, as required by the Tobacco Control Act, is one of the following: (i) "grandfathered" (that is, first introduced into interstate commerce for commercial distribution in the United States on or before February 15, 2007); (ii) "provisional" (that is, first introduced into interstate commerce for commercial distribution in the United States between February 15, 2007 and March 22, 2011, and for which a substantial equivalence report was submitted to the FDA by March 22, 2011); or (iii) determined to be "substantially equivalent" (that is, is the subject of a marketing authorization order from the FDA after review of a premarket submission intended to demonstrate substantial equivalence). (Source: P.A. 101-582, eff. 8-26-19.)