draft technical resolution n. 314 17 march 2017 18 pages in portuguese this draft resolution provides the technical requirements and procedures to be observed in the market authorization of tobacco processed and in the procedures for smoking products derived from tobacco. it applies to all tobacco processed in the country and to all smoking products derived from tobacco processed manufactured stored in the national territory imported exported or marketed in the country. it is considered tobacco processed all types of tobacco that have passed through any process ste at the national company intended for use as raw material for obtaining smoking products derived from tobacco. smoking products shall mean any manufactured product containing tobacco in its composition. all tobacco smoke products must be registered in order to manufacturing and marketing in the national territory import and marketing in the national territory and manufacture in the national territory exclusively for export. different importing companies will be able to obtain from anvisa the market authorization for the same smoking tobacco product manufactured outside the country. the importing company must request the authorization for the tobacco smoking product to be imported even if the product has already been registered by another importing company. every year national manufacturing companies and companies importing smoking products derived from tobacco must electronically submit a secondary application for renewal of smoking product authorization through the online procedure available in the anvisas electronic petition system. tobacco companies must petition annually to register all the tobacco they have processed in the previous year through the electronic petitioning system of anvisa. disclosure and commercialization of the requested authorization for smoking product may only be initiated after the corresponding petition has been granted and published in the official gazette. the registration of smoking product has validity of 1 one year counted from the date of publication in the official gazette and must have its validity annually renewed. the import export and marketing in the national territory of any smoking product that is not properly authorized under the terms of this resolution shall be prohibited. the commercialization in the brazilian market of smoke products authorized exclusively for export is not allowed. this resolution revokes resolution n 90 of 27 december 2007 resolution n 32 of 29 may 2008 and resolution n 44 of 18 june 2008. this resolution comes into force on the date of its publication.