The tasks of the Tobacco Coordination Office include

• Planning the legally required monitoring and control of tobacco and related products in accordance with the specifications of the Ministry of Health, including further arrangements and documentation of results;
• Monitoring and sampling of tobacco and related products on the market, within the scope of the respective annual inspection plan or, if necessary, by specially trained bodies of the agency;
• Examination, analysis, assessment and risk assessment of tobacco and related products, including the monitoring of reporting by manufacturers and importers, as well as the control and evaluation of reporting data;
• Preparation of correspondence with authorities, trading companies and commercial enterprises, in particular in the event of findings of defects in tobacco and related products, including the preparation of the initiation of administrative penal proceedings and their documentation;
• Co-supervision of the rapid alert, communication and information systems, in particular the interfaces to RAPEX, IRASFF, ICSMS, EWS/EBDD and the poisoning centre of Gesundheit Österreich GmbH as far as tobacco and related products are concerned;
• Technical and legal processing of submissions and enquiries from authorities, business representatives, interest groups, international organisations and members of the general public, in preparation for the handling of submissions and enquiries by the Minister of Health as the competent authority;
• Technical and organisational matters relating to the flat-rate annual fees in accordance with the TNRSG in connection with the determination of a cost-covering annual fee for the monitoring of tobacco products and for the authorisation of novel tobacco products, including the implementation of the annual evaluation;
• Technical assessment in the context of the authorisation of novel tobacco products in connection with the ordinance of the Ministry of Health regarding the authorisation of novel tobacco products;
• Technical tasks of the survey of the ingredients of tobacco products in accordance with the Tobacco Product Ingredients Survey Ordinance;
• Publication of technical information on tobacco and related products;
• Preparation of technical reports, expert opinions, evaluations and statements on tobacco and related products;
• Participation in national and international projects and working groups in the specialised field.