Potential de-blocking of Moldovan wines export to Russia will be known in a month

By mid-August it will be known for sure if the Moldovan wine export to the Russian Federation will be de-blocked, the head of the Moldovan delegation at the recent negotiations in Moscow, Andrei Gurin, head of the Inspectorate for Alcoholic Production Supervision, announced about this. Andrei Gurin has told Info-Prim Neo that, previously, the Russians solocited, by mail, an action plan regarding the possible resuming of Moldovan wine export. The Moldovan part presented personally this plan to one of the advisors of the sanitary doctor-chief of the Russian Federation, Ghenadi Oniscenko. According to him, other 2 plans presented previously were considered by Russians as “too general”. But for this time, the specialists of the National Scientific-Practical Center of Preventive Medicine, Association „Moldova-Vin”, and the Inspectorate for Plants Protection contributed to drafting the plan, Gurin noted. The head of the Inspectorate for Alcoholic Production Supervision mentioned that the delegation has required to Russian part to set the necessary parameters for determining the wine’s quality. According to standards, the wine quality is established by 32 indicators, of them only 7 are compulsory. According to him, the Russians were testing the wine aleatory. „We proposed them to take as ground the indicators used by the International Organization of Wine and Vine,” Andrei Gurin highlighted. In conformity with the legislation of the Russian Federation, an answer to proposals made by the Moldovan experts shall be given in a month.