Substantial legislative amendments are being prepared with a view to placing restrictions on the issuing of licences to produce and circulate alcohol, and to make liability harsher if the production and circulation of alcohol is not duly declared

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.