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Article R3512-17 of the French Public Health Code

I.-Units of packaging and outer packaging for cigarettes and roll-your-own tobacco are of a single shade of colour and may include a bar code.

They may show a “calibration mark” resulting solely from the manufacturing process.

II – An order by the Minister for Health sets the colour shade and the characteristics of the barcode mentioned in I.

Original in French 🇫🇷
Article R3512-17
I.-Les unités de conditionnement et les emballages extérieurs des cigarettes et du tabac à rouler sont d’une seule nuance de couleur et peuvent comporter un code-barres.


Ils peuvent faire apparaître une “ marque de calibrage ” résultant du seul processus de fabrication.


II.-Un arrêté du ministre chargé de la santé fixe la nuance de couleur ainsi que les caractéristiques du code-barres mentionnés au I.

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