Omskvinprom alcohol factory. Vodka bottling shop floor. Excise stamps.
Photo: Sergey Bykhovez
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New Amends to Old Stickers
Alcohol importers are to hurry up to put new-type stickers onto ‘old’ bottles before March 31. The government has tried again on Tuesday to help them do it. And not in right time, again. The amendments which would allow to remark alcohol bottles right in warehouses of retail and wholesale dealers were waited for last year. The dealers have now already returned almost all bottles marked with old-type stickers to importers.
Russian government added new amendments to the resolution #398 “About marking alcohol products...”, excluding the requirement to carry out obligatory remarking in importers’ warehouses. Thus, two problems have been solved.
First, retail chains and distributors were not able to sell alcohol bottles with old stickers because they could not remark the bottles in their own warehouses, and had to return alcohol to importers. Now importer representatives can change stickers right in warehouses of their buyers.
Second, only the direct owner of a warehouse had had the right to put on new stickers. Warehouse tenants and subtenants did not have that right before. Yet, some importers rented warehouses, which prevented them from remarking their alcohol.
Experts think that the government’s yesterday’s amendments came too late: the larger part of imported alcohol was already withdrawn from retail and wholesale.
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All the Article in Russian as of Mar. 07, 2007
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