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Tobacco and Matches Board
Role
The Monegasque Tobacco and Matches Board under the supervision of the Ministry of Finance and Economy, operates the Principality’s monopolies on tobacco and matches.
In legislative terms, it is tasked with:
- Ensuring compliance with the Sovereign Ordinances of 5 December 1865 and 12 December 1891 granting the Principality exclusive rights to import, to export, distribute and origin control of tobacco and matches on Monegasque territory
- Approving and publishing in the Monegasque Journal Officiel (official gazette) the retail sale prices of tobacco manufactured according to the tariffs in force in France pursuant to Article 19 Title III of the Franco-Monegasque Neighbourhood Agreement of 18 May 1963 (see Article 19 Title III of Ordinance 3039)
- Applying tax and customs procedures
In terms of administration:
- It is consulted for advice by the Business Development Agency and The State Property Authority regarding the opening of tobacconist shops, and the granting and duration of management concessions
In terms of sales:
- Within the Principality, it supplies around 30 tobacconists and supermarkets, which only sell matches
- It decides which products should be listed and which withdrawn, and offers nearly 700 listed tobacco products (cigars, cigarettes, cigarillos, pipe tobaccos, rolling tobaccos and hookah tobaccos)
- It negotiates with tobacco companies and distributors on behalf of the State
- It ensures the collection of state revenues for tobacco, matches and various other products
- It has had a bonded warehouse since 9 June 1965, and manages the export provisioning of ships under the European customs regulations in force
Legal References
Sovereign Ordinance of 12 December 1891 concerning the production and sale of matches
Sovereign Ordinance no. 2.448 of 01 August 1940 concerning the fiscal control of tobacco shops
Sovereign Ordinance no. 2.719 of 08 February 1943 which increases penalties
Act no. 1.346 of 09 May 2008 pertaining to protection from smoking
Sovereign Ordinance no. 4.225 of 20 March 2013 establishing the Monegasque Tobacco and Matches Board
Contact details
The Government
- The Ministry of State
- Ministry of Interior
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Ministry of Finance and Economy
- Le Conseiller de Gouvernement - Ministre des Finances et de l'Économie
- Budget and Treasury Department
- Public Treasury
- Department of Tax Services
- The State Property Authority
- Housing Department
- Business Development Agency
- Tourist and Convention Authority
- Stamp Issuing Office
- Tobacco and Matches Board
- Gambling Authority
- Monaco Post Office
- Ministry of Health and Social Affairs
- Ministry of Public Works, the Environment and Urban Development
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation