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Ministerial Decree No. 435 regarding validation of the Regulation on information of consumers as regards the origin of alcohol products and tobacco of foreign origin.

Country/Territory
Russian Federation
Document type
Regulation
Date
1996
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Original source
Photocopy.
Subject
Food & nutrition, Cultivated plants
Keyword
Viticulture/oenological practices Traceability/product tracing Food quality control/food safety Tobacco
Geographical area
Arctic, Asia and the Pacific, Black Sea, Caspian Sea, CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States), Eastern Europe, Europe, Europe and Central Asia, North Pacific, North-West Pacific
Abstract

The Government, for the purpose of ensuring the consumers' rights, decrees to validate the Regulation. The Regulation determines the modalities of information of consumers as regards the origin of alcohol products and tobacco of foreign origin. The information is brought to consumers' notice by means of customs' certificate filled in according to the form contained in Annex 1. In the process of retail trade the owner of merchandise must produce at the request of the customer or inspecting authority a copy of certificate with the impression of the original seal and the impression of the seal of the previous owner. In case of wholesale trade of the afore-mentioned merchandise a copy of certificate is passed only to the organizations or individual businessmen, the holders of wholesale trade licences. State Trade Inspection attached to the Committee on Trade and its territorial branches are authorized to control the availability of properly filled in certificates at the trading organizations and individual traders.

Full text
Russian

References - Legislation

Implements

Presidential Decree No. 161 on strengthening of state control over circulation of alcohol and tobacco products of foreign origin.

Legislation | Russian Federation | 1996

Keyword: Viticulture/oenological practices, Vending, Packaging/labelling, Traceability/product tracing, Food quality control/food safety, Tobacco

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Implemented by

Ministerial Decree No. 1597 on the modalities of information of consumers as regards the country of origin of beer imported to the Russian Federation.

Legislation | Russian Federation | 1997

Keyword: Beverages, International trade, Traceability/product tracing, Food quality control/food safety

Source: FAO, FAOLEX