Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin: Alcohol products are traditionally a commodity of particular economic, political and social significance

24 January 2018, Wednesday

On January 24, speaking at a summing-up meeting of the regional State Alcohol Inspectorate, Head of the Inspectorate Zhaudat Akhmetkhanov said that 261,000 liters of alcohol and alcohol-containing products were removed from illegal trafficking in 2017.

Making a keynote report at the meeting, Akhmetkhanov said that in 2017 the Inspectorate controlled the production and sales of ethyl alcohol, alcohol and alcohol-containing products and continued work on the introduction of the Unified State Automated Information System at trade enterprises in rural settlements of Tatarstan.

As part of work of the Council to monitor the situation in the sphere of sales of alcohol and alcohol-containing products, joint work with municipal authorities, supervisory and law enforcement agencies on the implementation of measures stipulated by the Road Map for Eliminating Illegal Trafficking of Alcoholic and Alcohol-Containing Products and the Road Map for Ensuring State Control in the Sphere of Production and Sales of Beer and Beer Beverages in Tatarstan will be continued in 2018.

Tatarstan Prime Minister Pesoshin, who took part in the meeting, said that last year the republic managed to maintain the stability in the market of alcohol and alcohol products. "Alcohol products are traditionally a commodity that are of particular economic, political and social significance," he said. “Therefore, creating the conditions for predictable development of the industry is a priority task in the alcohol market of the republic. The purposeful and effective work of the regional State Alcohol Inspectorate in this area ensures the competitiveness of enterprises that legally produce and sell alcohol products, deprives the shadow business of its advantages, increases sales of quality alcohol, reduces the level of poisoning from surrogate products," he added.

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