OREANDA-NEWS  The senators approved a law to speed up the process of issuing licenses for the production and turnover of ethyl alcohol, alcoholic and alcohol-containing products and reduce the number of documents required to obtain them.

The information requested for obtaining a license will be checked by the licensing authority within the framework of the system of interdepartmental electronic interaction with other federal executive authorities. As a result, the time required to prepare documents for licensing will decrease significantly. At the same time, the grounds for refusal to issue a license are being clarified. At the same time, not only the production of dyes for the furniture industry, printing inks and varnishes, but also the turnover of such products is being withdrawn from licensing.

Also, the period during which the use of basic technological equipment for the production and (or) turnover of ethyl alcohol, alcoholic and alcohol-containing products is not allowed after submitting a list of types of such equipment and certificates to the licensing authority is reduced to 30 days.

The law provides that the government of the Russian Federation will determine the cases and procedure for sealing counters of the volume of finished products that are installed on technological equipment for the production of wine, including sparkling wine, fruit alcoholic beverages, fruit alcoholic and grape-containing beverages, fruit fermented materials, beer and beer drinks, cider, poire, mead.