# The Standardised Packaging of Tobacco Products Regulations 2015, Regulation 3: Permitted colour or shade of packaging of cigarettes

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

(1) No person may produce or supply any cigarettes in breach of any of the provisions of this regulation or Schedule 1 (exceptions to paragraphs (2) and (3)).
(2) The only colour or shade permitted on or for the external packaging of a unit packet or container packet of cigarettes is Pantone 448 C with a matt finish, but this is subject to paragraph (4) and Schedule 1.
(3) The only colour or shade permitted on or for the internal packaging of a unit packet or container packet of cigarettes, is either—
(a) white, or
(b) Pantone 448 C with a matt finish,
but this is subject to paragraph (4), Schedule 1 and paragraph 3(1) of Schedule 2.
(4) Nothing in paragraph (2) or (3) prohibits any warning, statement, text, picture, image, symbol or marking which is required by any enactment (whenever passed or made) other than these Regulations or required by the Commission Implementing Regulation; but see paragraph 3 of Schedule 1 which imposes conditions in relation to any text required in accordance with regulation 7(4)(a)(i) of the General Product Safety Regulations 2005 (name and address of producer) .

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/829/regulation/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/standardised-packaging-of-tobacco-products-regulations-2015/regulation-3
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