Regulations on Alcohol Marketing

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For information on statutory and non-statutory regulations on alcohol marketing in Europe, please click on one of the countries on the map below, or click on one of the countries in the alphabetic list below the map. Click here to see a legenda for the icons used.

Recent study: Alcohol Marketing Restrictions: Learning from International Implementation; University of Stirling (2022).

WHO report: Digital marketing of alcohol: challenges and policy options for better health in the WHO European Region 

WHO report: Reducing the harm from alcohol by regulating cross-border alcohol marketing, advertising and promotion. A technical report; 2022

For an overview of examples of statutory restrictions on alcohol marketing in European countries, please click here. 

For a PowerPoint presentation about Alcohol Marketing Regulations in the EU, please click here.
For an overview document with the age limits for the sale of alcohol in EU Member States, please click here.
For an overview document with the excise duty rates in EU Member States, please click here.

Click here to read more about the (failure of) self-regulation.

Extra information about alcohol specific advertising codes: see : Jonathan K, Noel, Thomas F. Babor & Katherine Robaina: Industry self-regulation of alcohol marketing: a systematic review of content and exposure research; 2017 in: Addiction, Vol. 112, p 28-50. 

Report : Assessment of alternative models for regulation of alcohol marketing in Belgium (2019).

Alcohol Marketing in the WHO European Region; update report on the evidence and recommended policy actions. WHO 2020 

Marketing of food, non-alcoholic, and alcohol beverages: a toolkit to support the development and update of codes of conduct; European Commission; Evangelia Grammatikaki, Ana Sarasa-Renedo, Petros Maragkoudakis, Jan Wollgast, Sandra Caldeira; 2019

About the existing regulations in Australia: https://adf.org.au/insights/alcohol-advertising-regulation/

Alphabetical list of countries

Austria

Belgium

Bosnia-Herzegovina – no information available

Bulgaria

Croatia

Czech Republic

Denmark

Estonia

Finland

France

Germany

Greece

Great Britain

Hungary

Iceland

Ireland

Italy

Latvia

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Malta

Netherlands

Norway

Poland

Portugal

Romania

Slovenia

Slovak Republic

Spain

Sweden

Switzerland

Turkey

Ukraine

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Belarus – no information available

Cyprus – no information available

Macedonia – no information available

Moldavia – no information available

Montenegro – no information available

Serbia – no information available