The Ministry of Industry and Trade has prepared amendments to the rules for labeling tobacco and nicotine-containing products, as well as raw materials for their production.
The draft of the relevant resolution has been published on a single portal for posting draft laws.
The current rules for labeling tobacco and nicotine-containing products were approved by government Decree No. 224 dated 02/28/2019 (with amendments and additions).
The Ministry of Industry and Trade proposed to include in the rules a mechanism that allows turnover participants to optimally eliminate mistakes made in re-sorting by identification codes, including in the absence of software solutions that allow for operational inventory.
In this case, "re–sorting by identification codes" is a situation where a manufacturer or importer does not actually have labeled tobacco or nicotine-containing products that, according to the information system, they should have, and at the same time they have labeled products that, according to the information system, another participant in the turnover should have.
The amendments provide that, if a re-sorting by identification codes is detected, turnover participants will have the right to submit to the monitoring information system:
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corrected universal transfer document;
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notification of acceptance of identified identification codes (notification of acceptance of identification codes);
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information on labeling of identified tobacco or nicotine-containing products (labeling outside the place of production or the procedure for importation into the territory of the Russian Federation).
In addition, the amendments provide for the establishment of requirements and restrictions for importers of tobacco and nicotine-containing products, in compliance with which importers, by decision of the authorized federal executive authority, may be exempted from providing security for obligations to use labeling codes.
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