Circulation of ethylic alcohol and alcoholic beverages will be subject to registration

An automatic system will be implemented in the R. of Moldova - “The State Register of the ethylic alcohol and alcohol goods circulation". This register will assure at national level the monitoring of the production, quality and circulation of alcohol as well as protection of the consumer from counterfeit products. The system will also restrain the area of alcohol black market production via blocking trading products which are not registered in the system. The improvement of the situation in the domain is a result of Moldova’s accession to the World Trade Organization, an event that increased the rigors concerning the quality control and the legalization of using trade marks for import and export of alcohol goods. Moreover, supervising the circulation of alcoholic products is an important factor of assuring the economic security of the state and an instrument to boost incomes of the state budget. The Register will be administrated by the National Centre for control of alcoholic products’ quality specially created for this purpose. The Center will have to control the quality of alcohol beverages in conformity with international standards, the quality of imported additives utilized in wine industry, to test and expertise alcoholic products, to authorize the alcoholic products for export. The project is to be implemented in the first trimester of 2007.