The Federal Law: licensing and marking of beer-based beverages (2015-01-13)

The Federal Service for Alcohol Market Regulation drafted the Bill “Concerning Amendments of the Law “On State Regulation of Production and Circulation of Alcohol Products and Limiting of Alcohol Consumption”. Law formation was implemented according to provisions III, IV and VI of the Government Regulations approved in June 1, 2004 No 260. The Bill is […]

Brewers’ property liable to confiscation: who, what and why? (2015-01-13)

According to the request from representatives of the brewing industry to the Union to clarify details and confiscation procedure, we note as follows: 30.12.2014 the Committee of the Federation Council approved the bill drafted by the Federal Service for Alcohol Market Regulation in order to fight illegal alcohol trade. The law came into force in […]

The Federal Law “Public grain warehouses”. (2015-01-12)

The Ministry of Agriculture drafted the Federal Law “Concerning public grain warehouses” in order to modernize the current legislation of the RF in terms of warehousing services accomplishment and circulation of storage certificates aiming to achieve key purposes of the agrarian policy, forming the effective agricultural market followed by high profitability of agricultural producers, creation […]

Address of the President of the Union «Barley, Malt, Hops & Beer in Russia» A. Mordovin. Union’s results 2014 and future plans for 2015. (2014-12-30)

Dear colleagues and members of the Union! On behalf of the Union «Barley, Malt, Hops & Beer in Russia» and on my own behalf I wish you all the best wishes for the festive season – Happy New Year 2015 and Merry Christmas. The outgoing year was marked by firework of various bright events that […]

Russian independent brewers and wine makers are uniting! (2014-12-29)

In December 26, 2014 the Deputy Minister of Agriculture Andrey Volkov convened a Conference “Current state and prospects of the raw-material base for malt and brewing productions”. Representatives of the Federation Council, the Federal Service for Alcohol Market regulation, regional executive authorities, branch unions and companies of the production chain “barley – beer” took part […]

The Decree of the Russian Federal Service for Alcohol Market Regulation “Declaring of brewing production volumes and using of production capacity”. (2014-12-25)

The Federal Service for Alcohol Market Regulation drafted the Departmental Order “On Electronic form of declarations containing information about production volumes, circulation and use of alcohol products and production capacities”. The Decree spells out the terms for submitting accounts by beer and beer-based producers. You can find the Decree by reference.  

Beer production in January – November 2014: statistics by regions (2014-12-24)

According to the data of the Federal Service of State Statistics, in November 2014 beer production in Russia (with alcohol content from 0,5 to 8,6%) was 51.339,74 dL. and in January – November 2014 – 704.815,93 dL. that is equivalent to 92,7% for the same period last year. More detailed statistics of beer production in […]