Federal Service for the Control of Alcohol and Tobacco Markets (formerly Rosalkogolregulirovanie)
Owners
The Federal Service for the Regulation of the Alcohol Market (Rosalkogolregulirovanie) is a federal executive body that performs the functions of developing and implementing state policy and legal regulation in the production and circulation of ethyl alcohol, alcoholic and alcohol-containing products, as well as the functions of controlling the production and circulation of ethyl alcohol, alcoholic and alcohol-containing products, supervision and provision of services in this area.
History
2024: Deputy Head of Rosalkogolregulirovanie arrested in the case of a bribe on an especially large scale
On December 19, 2024, the Basmanny District Court of Moscow arrested Elena Afanasenko, deputy head of the Federal Service for Alcohol and Tobacco Market Control (Rosalkogoltabakkontrol), for one month and 30 days in the case of receiving a bribe on an especially large scale. Read more here.
2023
Putin renamed Rosalkogolregulirovanie and added new functions to it
The President Russia Vladimir Putin signed a decree that renamed Rosalkogolregulirovanie and added new functions to it. The corresponding document was published on the official portal of legal acts on August 8, 2023.
According to the decree, Rosalkogolregulirovanie will be renamed the Federal Service for the Control of Alcohol and Tobacco Markets. In addition to the previous functions, the department will be engaged in supervision in the field of production and circulation of tobacco products, tobacco and nicotine-containing products, as well as raw materials for their production.
Within six months, the government of the Russian Federation must resolve issues arising in connection with this decree: determine the number of staff of the new department, clarify the functions of the executive authorities and bring the legislation in line with the new decree. The document also says that the decision was made to "improve public administration in the field of production and turnover of tobacco products, tobacco products, as well as nicotine-containing products and raw materials for their production." The decree comes into force on September 1, 2023.
Commenting on the innovations adopted by Putin, the first deputy chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Budget and Financial Markets, Sergei Ryabukhin, noted that senators had long come up with the initiative to transfer the tobacco market control functions to the federal service.
 | The fact is that the regulator has accumulated quite solid experience in controlling the alcohol market, which could be used for greater efficiency in the field of tobacco production and turnover. That's right. Centralization is a big plus, "the senator explained. |  |
According to Ryabukhin, tobacco counterfeit today accounts for about 10-15% of the total volume of nicotine-containing products produced.
| | The budget because of this annually receives a lot of money. And in order to reduce losses, we propose to interest the regional authorities in the fight against counterfeit goods. To do this, it was right to transfer part of the tobacco excise taxes to the subjects, "he said. | |
Obtaining the right to regulate the tobacco market
The President Russia Vladimir Putin signed a law that establishes state regulation of the production and turnover of tobacco products in the country. The corresponding document was published on the official portal of legal acts on June 13, 2023.
The law introduces licensing of activities and requirements for equipment for production, including the obligation to register and preserve it in case of non-use. Accounting of products and raw materials has also been introduced, which will be based on the Fair Sign labeling system.
The law gives Rosalkogolregulirovanie the authority to control (supervise) the production and circulation of tobacco products, tobacco and nicotine-containing products, as well as raw materials for their production. In the future, perhaps the service will be renamed Rosalkogoltabakkontrol. The law comes into force on September 1, 2023. The norms introducing licensing - from March 1, 2024.
Some of the requirements of the law will come into force later. So, from July 1, 2025, in warehouses and production premises of the manufacturer of relevant products and raw materials, it will be prohibited to place the main technological equipment that is not owned, operated or operated by him. Licensing is provided both for those who are engaged in the production of nicotine-containing products, and for those who import and store them.
The All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM) in its survey noted that by 2023 the number of smokers over the past decade has decreased by only 5%. At the same time, there was an increase among those who quit using nicotine-containing products (by 19%), as well as half (50%) of the respondents said that they had never smoked.
Earlier, the government also proposed criminalizing the release and sale of tobacco products without a license. By mid-June 2023, the corresponding bill is being discussed in the State Duma.
2022: The Accounts Chamber revealed violations of 3.2 billion rubles
The Accounts Chamber (JV), during an audit of the Rosalkogolregulirovanie at the end of 2022, revealed violations and shortcomings totaling 3.2 billion rubles. This is stated in the materials of the control and supervisory department, which were published in June 2023.
As explained in the joint venture, mainly violations are associated with the maintenance of budget accounting and reporting. In particular, an inventory of assets and liabilities was not fully carried out, which led to the reflection in the accounting of bank guarantees for the provision of federal special brands with expired alcohol producers.
According to the report of the Accounts Chamber, in 2022, the main source of income for Rosalkogolregulirovanie was the state duty for issuing federal special brands to alcohol producers (63%). The amount of these revenues amounted to 840 million rubles, or 144% to forecast appointments. At the same time, the total revenue of the service did not reach the planned indicators and amounted to 82% of the forecast (1.3 billion rubles).
As the auditor Andrei Baturkin notes, there was a significant failure to fulfill the forecast of income on the state duty for licensing activities in the field of production/turnover of alcoholic and alcohol-containing products.
The Accounts Chamber adds that expenses are executed at a fairly high level - 99.3%. In terms of the program activities of the Service (as a participant in the subprogram "Development of the tax and customs system and regulation of the production and turnover of certain types of excisable goods" GP " state Financial management and regulation of financial markets"), all indicators have been achieved. At the same time, the Accounts Chamber pointed out the need to optimize the deadlines for reaching or changing their planned values.[1]
Information technologies in Rosalkogolregulirovanie
2021: The Accounts Chamber pointed out to Rosalkogolregulirovanie problems with IT systems
In June 2021, the Accounts Chamber (JV) issued a report on the results of assessing the work of the IT systems of Rosalkogolregulirovanie, for the creation, modernization and support of which about 1.66 billion rubles have been paid since 2010.
According to the Russian financial control body, Rosalkogolregulirovanie does not fully use the functionality of the created internal InformSystem, which allow controlling the production and circulation of alcoholic beverages, as well as automatically identify various risks and respond quickly to them. The audit showed that significant amounts of information by June 2021 exist only on paper and are not entered into IT systems.
As the auditor found out, the deadline for providing information from the Unified State Automated System (EGAIS) was reduced in 2021, but still remains very long - seven working days. At the same time, the Accounts Chamber noted that Rosalkogolregulirovanie did not develop an "electronic request format" for information contained in the EGAIS. This makes it impossible for the applicant to receive a public service.
In addition, EGAIS participants do not yet have access to all the information they need. In particular, it is not provided for the provision of information on the turnover of alcoholic beverages in retail sales, the joint venture said.
| | As a result, if these information are available in the EGAIS, market participants are faced with the problem of lack of access to information that allows planning the production and sale of products. Here we propose to establish the procedure for providing this information from the EGAIS in electronic form, - said auditor Andrei Baturkin, whose words are quoted by the press service of the joint venture. | |
According to the Accounts Chamber, by June 2021, six IT systems are in operation at Rosalkogolregulirovanie. At the same time, the service did not create a single comprehensive strategy for the development of such systems, according to the report of the joint venture.[2]
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