Executive Director of the Association of Winegrowers and Winemakers of Russia (AVVR) Alexey Plotnikov proposed to start marking wine imported from countries outside the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) through Belarus with the sign “is not wine,” writes RBC .
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According to Plotnikov, the association has already submitted a corresponding request about the origin of wine and wine materials to the MZVV. In the future, AVVR will determine its position depending on the information received.
“If this wine is produced in the territory of the Customs Union (say, in Russia or Armenia), and is only bottled in Belarus, we welcome the expansion of economic interaction between our countries,” he added. — If wine imported from countries outside the EAEU is bottled at MZVV, then such supplies undermine at a minimum the state policy of Russia in the field of viticulture and winemaking, and such products must strictly be marked on our shelves with the sign “not wine.”
Plotnikov also noted that at the state level there cannot even simply be a strategy for importing wines, since this is not a strategic product.
“What the state can and should do is to develop, implement and improve a strategy for the development of its own, domestic Russian production, including wine,” he emphasized.
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