Peasant vintners will have to hold licenses and be excise payers

Producers of “peasant wine” should have licenses and register at the Tax Inspectorate as excise duty payers, in case they wish to sell their production on the domestic market. At the same time, they will have to receive a certificate of conformity and quality for the beverages they produce. These provisions are included in the Regulations regarding the production and selling of peasant wine, approved Wednesday, November 22 by the Government. The document stipulates that producers of “peasant wine” should be have “lighter” registration terms compared to those required from winemaking enterprises, and an accessible tax for the license as well. In this respect, “Moldova-Vin” Agro Industrial Agency was forced to resume in concert with the Licensing Office and Ministry of Finances the licensing terms for production and selling of “peasant wine”, with a view to simplifying them and setting an insignificant tax for license. The possibility of exempting from this tax will be examined as well. The provisions of the respective decision aim at peasant households and farmers that have in their possession not less than 0.5 ha of vineyard. The Government considers the Regulations’ drawing up of major importance, taking into account the necessity of respecting technical, technologic and hygienic conditions by the potential producers. According to the informative note, annexed to the Government decision, the document is to create the normative framework that would enable and sell the wine fabricated in rustic conditions “by the glass”. The Regulations also establish certain prohibitions as regards the technical endowment of the fabrication process, as well as concerning selling wine.