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Pepeliaev Group advises that the State Duma has accepted for consideration a draft law under which, if licences to produce and circulate ethyl alcohol, alcohol and products containing alcohol are revoked, or are terminated early after being suspended, a replacement may be obtained only after a year has elapsed. Provision is made for other equally substantial amendments. These cover situations when the production and circulation of alcohol is not properly declared, and when a licence is reissued further to a reorganisation.

Pepeliaev Group advises of a proposal that the requirement for mandatory registration of information in the Unified State Automated Information System be extended. Under the proposal, the requirement would also apply to producers of beer, beer-based beverages, cider, perry and mead, companies that buy, store and supply (including importing) alcohol products and products containing alcohol, as well as to retail sellers of alcohol products.

Pepeliaev Group advises that the Russian Government has adopted a Resolution which changes the Rules for selling certain types of goods.