The retail sale and supply of tobacco products is a state monopoly and may only be carried out in the tobacco and stamp vendors network or through vending machines, located in establishments that have the appropriate administrative authorisations, for sale through machines, and is expressly prohibited in any other place or medium.Tobacco and stamp vendors, who must necessarily be natural persons, nationals of any of the States of the European Union, are configured as state concessionaires. The concession will be made through public tender. 