In Russia, strengthened control over alcohol-containing drugs

EGAIS - Unified state automated information system for accounting for the volume of production and turnover of ethyl alcohol, alcoholic and alcohol-containing products.

The system is designed to carry out state control over the alcohol market (AP) on the territory of the Russian Federation.

Creation and development of the system

2023: Transition to new codes

From January 1, 2023, producers and importers of alcohol must use the new EGAIS codes.

2022

Integration with "Honest Sign"

In the test loop, the digital marking system Honest Sign"" is launched integration with the EGAIS system. This was CRPT announced on November 2, 2022. More. here

Availability of "Fair Mark" data on the production of drugs containing alcohol

Center for Advanced Technology Development, acting as the operator of the National Digital System markings , "" Honest Sign July 20, 2022 announced that it had provided access To Federal Service for Alcohol Market Regulation to data to the production of drugs containing alcohol.

According to the EGAIS, in 2022 there was a sharp increase in the volume of ethanol drug substance produced in Russia. So, in the first quarter, 1.7 million decaliters of alcohol were produced in the country, which is 5.3 times more than in the same period in 2021. At the same time, according to Rosalkogolregulirovanie, the need for ethanol in the pharmaceutical industry remained the same and does not exceed 4 million decaliters per year.

The interaction of Rosalkogolregulirovanie and Honest Sign in terms of data on alcohol-containing drugs will allow tracking the movement of alcohol from initial production to the consumer, which will completely exclude the possibility of selling alcohol-containing drugs for illegal purposes.

Thanks to the data of the labeling system, the state can now track a sharp increase in alcohol-containing drugs and compare it with the real needs of the pharmaceutical industry. Earlier, Rosalgolregulirovanie could track the movement of alcohol only before it entered pharmaceutical production and became a pharmaceutical institution, from that moment on it ceased to be available for control. The availability of Honest Sign data for Rosalkogolregulirovanie will exclude the sale of alcohol-containing drugs for illegal purposes, "said Jan Vitrov, head of the excisable commodity group department of the CRPT.

The use of digital traceability mechanisms and synergy of state information systems will reduce the supervisory burden on legal manufacturers.

The regulation of the pharmaceutical industry in Russia is at a very high level, while it was precisely in terms of the production of drugs with an alcohol content before the introduction of labeling that it was not possible to ensure complete traceability from raw materials to the patient. Interaction at the data level excludes excessive supervision of bona fide players, while allowing the regulator to pay attention to potential violators. The exchange of information provides a full-fledged risk-oriented approach to business inspections, and buyers are guaranteed the purchase of high-quality and legal drugs, - commented Yegor Zhavoronkov, head of the Pharma commodity group of the CRPT.

Almost 90 thousand participants were registered in the drug labeling system as of July 2022, of which 438 were manufacturers. Labeling of medicines began in Russia on July 1, 2020. According to Roszdravnadzor, 100% of drugs that are introduced into civilian circulation are marked.

DDoS attacks that caused problems with the supply of alcohol in Russia

Due to the DDoS attack on the Unified State Automated Alcohol Accounting Information System (EGAIS), manufacturers and suppliers cannot ship alcohol in Russia. This problem became known in early May 2022.

As an employee of a company producing strong alcohol told Vedomosti, attacks on EGAIS began on May 2, 2022. More obvious failures in the system occurred the next day, add Igor Kosarev, president of the Union of Alcohol Producers, and a representative of Ladoga. In the wine trading company Fort, failures began only on May 4, 2022, its executive director Alexander Lipilin told the publication. At the same time, the Russian manufacturer of strong alcoholic beverages Beluga Group has not recorded any problems in the work of the EGAIS at all, a newspaper source close to the group said.

Due to the DDoS attack on EGAIS, manufacturers and suppliers cannot ship alcohol in Russia

The "team of cybersecurity enthusiasts" Disbalanser, which supports Ukraine, announced its involvement in cyber attacks on the Telegram channel. Announcements calling for a collective attack on the system's servers were also posted on the resources of the association, which calls itself the "IT Army of Ukraine." Among the goals there are portals of egais.ru, service.egais.ru and check.egais.ru. On the evening of May 4, 2022, the first two sites periodically issued an error "the server stopped responding," the third did not work, according to the publication of the publication.

According to the executive director of Fort Alexander Lipilin, on May 4, from 11.00 to 16.00, the supply of the company's products to retail chains and restaurants failed. The company's employees could not upload about 70% of the invoices to the EGAIS. Ladoga has a similar situation: about 1,500 documents have accumulated in the queue. According to a company representative, by the morning of May 4, the problem was partially solved - 600 documents were sent to the system.^[1]

2021

Problems with the supply of alcohol as a result of a malfunction of the system

At the end of December 2021, a failure occurred in the work of the Unified State Automated Information System for Accounting for the Volume of Production and Turnover of Ethyl Alcohol, Alcoholic and Alcohol-Containing Products (EGAIS), due to which problems arose with alcohol sales.

According to Kommersant, on the EGAIS website on December 29, 2021, the inscription "The EGAIS.RU information resource is under reconstruction" was posted.

According to the Telegram channel "Before all. Well, almost, "the failure occurred on the night of December 29, 2021, it was not possible to eliminate it as of 14:30 Moscow time on the same day. Problems arose in the operation of the system for fixing excise stamps, the channel said in a statement.

In EGAIS there was a large-scale failure as a result of which problems began with the supply of alcohol

In Russia, all outlets selling alcohol must be connected to the EGAIS system. This applies to both shops and catering establishments. According to the Telegram channel "Before everyone else. Well, almost, "" there are delays in the delivery of orders and sales of alcohol throughout the country. " There is no data from other sources that the failure in the EGAIS affected retail sales of alcohol by December 29, 2021.

Meanwhile, Rosalkogolregulirovanie denied reports of problems with the fixation of excise stamps, as well as delays in the delivery of orders and sales of alcohol throughout the country.

Even taking into account the seasonal load, there are no delays in fixing, "a representative of Rosalkogolregulirovanie told RBC.

Nevertheless, back in August 2021, Rosalkogolregulirovanie warned that the reconstruction of the egais.ru information resource would begin in September, and the publication of messages would be carried out only in the EGAIS section of the website fsrar.gov.ru.

By December 30, 2021, a message egais.ru posted on the website stating that the Unified State Automated Information System for Accounting for the Volume of Production and Turnover of Ethyl Alcohol, Alcoholic and Alcohol-Containing Products operates normally.^[2]

New EGAIS rules greatly complicated sales of new types of beer and wine in Russia

The new rules of the Unified State Automated Information System (EGAIS) greatly complicated the sale of new types of beer and wine in Russia. This became known in mid-November 2021.

As representatives of companies that produce and import alcoholic beverages told RBC, the situation has become critical, given the approach of the New Year holidays.

New EGAIS rules greatly complicated sales of new types of beer and wine in the Russian Federation

From November 1, 2021, alcohol producers and importers must use two options to start trading in new products or make changes to documents on already traded ones - to do this either through the EGAIS Universal Transport Module program or through the Unified Portal of State and Municipal Services system. Previously, documents and information were entered into the Federal Register of Alcoholic Beverages on the website of Rosalkogolregulirovanie.

Director of Legal Affairs and Corporate Relations AB InBev Efes Oraz Durdyev said that by mid-November 2021, the stable operation of any of the proposed options has not yet been ensured, and the notification service through the previous functionality has already been disabled. This, in his opinion, deprived the company not only of another channel for submitting information, but also the ability to prepare its accounts for the transition to new systems.

Heineken representatives noted that the new system was introduced with limited functions. For business, this means the impossibility of introducing new varieties, places of production and submitting clarifications to existing product brands on the market.

At the same time, Rosalkogolregulirovanie emphasizes that the EGAIS system operates normally. The Service has issued additional clarifications on the completion of notices and is ready to provide advisory support for each specific case.

We note an increase in errors in the preparation of notifications about the beginning of product turnover in accounting programs on the side of market participants, the department told the publication.[3]

Integration with National Labelling System

On July 19, 2021, it became known about the decision taken in the Government of the Russian Federation that Rosalkogolregulirovanie gain access to the state system for monitoring the turnover of goods subject to mandatory labeling (GIS MT "Honest Sign"). This decision was made in the government.

The corresponding agreement will be signed by the Ministry of Industry and Trade, Rosalkogolregulirovanie and the national operator of the labeling system (CRPT).

According to the text of the document, organizations will interact in the field of monitoring the turnover of goods subject to mandatory labeling and registration in a single state automated information system for accounting for the volume of production and turnover of ethyl alcohol, alcohol and alcohol-containing products (EGAIS).

Due to the exchange of data between Honest Sign and EGAIS, the production of perfume products will be monitored, compared with the volume of raw materials purchased, cases of production of illegal products will be identified, which will further accelerate the whitewashing of the industry and increase the share of legal, high-quality and safe products. The initiative creates additional opportunities at the production stage to identify companies of violators who produce counterfeit perfumes and alcohol, as well as reduce inspections of bona fide business.

It is noted that by July 2021, the use of ethyl alcohol in the release of perfume products is not monitored. This creates the prerequisites for its withdrawal into an illegal field and the production of alcohol dangerous to the life and health of citizens from it.

The lack of traceability allows unscrupulous entrepreneurs to purchase ethyl alcohol for the needs of perfume production, and in fact to produce surrogate alcohol or dual-use perfume surrogates, which lead to severe poisoning of the body.^[4]

2016: Deputy Prime Minister Khloponin - alcohol sellers: There will be no cancellation of the introduction of EGAIS, prepare in advance

On February 3, 2016, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Khloponin held a meeting with representatives of organizations, trade unions and associations working in the production and circulation of alcoholic and alcohol-containing products.

During the meeting, they discussed the implementation in 2016 of a unified state automated information system (EGAIS) for accounting for the volume of production and turnover of ethyl alcohol, alcoholic and alcohol-containing products.

In accordance with the Federal Law of June 29, 2015 No. 182-FZ "On Amendments to the Federal Law" On State Regulation of the Production and Circulation of Ethyl Alcohol, Alcoholic and Alcohol-Containing Products and on Limiting the Consumption (Drinking) of Alcoholic Beverages "" from January 1, 2016, the entire wholesale link must be connected to the EGAIS. According to Rosalkogolregulirovanie, today 1408 wholesale organizations are registered in EGAIS, which is 99%.

At the meeting, business representatives shared their experience in the system. Most of the participants stated the high quality of EGAIS. At the same time, its shortcomings were noted. The proposals made at the meeting to eliminate them were included in the final protocol. Business representatives also recognized that their own information systems, which are often not ready to work with EGAIS, also require improvements. Work in this direction will continue.

Alexander Khloponin recalled that on July 1, 2016, the law will enter into force for retail enterprises. According to him, there will be no cancellation of the introduction of EGAIS in the alcohol market, therefore, in order to avoid the difficulties that wholesale organizations have already experienced, retail representatives must prepare in advance for work in a new format. At the moment, 60% of organizations are connected to EGAIS in this market segment.

The Deputy Prime Minister also instructed during the spring parliamentary session to prepare amendments to the legislation that provide for the introduction of EGAIS in all settlements without exception, including those where less than 3 thousand people live.

2015

In June 2015, Law No. 182-FZ was adopted, within the framework of which a phased procedure for connecting producers of low-alcohol drinks, as well as wholesalers and retailers of alcoholic beverages, to the EGAIS is provided.

The law implies that during 2015-2017, all organizations and individual entrepreneurs engaged in the production and circulation of alcoholic beverages and beer, including their retail sale, should be connected to EGAIS.

When all market participants are connected to the EGAIS, it will be possible to control the entire traffic chain of the AP from the manufacturer to the end consumer.

2012

In the summer of 2012, Rosalkogolregulirovanie (RAR) raised the question of the use of EGAIS in the retail sale of alcoholic beverages.

2009

In January 2009, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree establishing the Federal Service for the Regulation of the Alcohol Market, which will control the circulation of alcohol in the country. The creation of such a service was accelerated after the scandal with the launch of EGAIS.

By September 2009, the software was generally implemented and operated with minor flaws.

Since the end of 2009, control over the EGAIS system has gradually begun to be transferred to the newly created federal service - Rosalkogolregulirovanie.

2007

In 2007, the founder of EGAIS was suspended from further development of the system, and this function was transferred to FSUE GNIVC, controlled by the tax service.

The full introduction of EGAIS was postponed from November 1, 2007 to November 1, 2008, but the implementation began only in January 2009.

2006

EGAIS was to be put into operation on January 1, 2006, and from July 1 of the same year, the circulation of any alcohol-containing products without entering information into the system was to be prohibited. Thus, from January 1, 2006, all manufacturers had to drive the EGAIS barcode into excise stamps, and from July 1, 2006 the system was supposed to work.

The problems began even before the law took effect. In order for the new version of the law to work, the government needed to adopt a number of regulations. For example, a decree on the issuance of excise stamps for Russian manufacturers, a similar document for importers, resolutions regulating the work of the EGAIS, etc. However, since the amendments to the bill were approved by the State Duma only at the end of December 2005 - less than a month before the law came into force, the necessary government decrees began to appear only in 2006.

Official documents of the Federal Tax Service (FTS), which determined the list of software and hardware for manufacturers of alcoholic beverages, appeared only by mid-January. Manufacturers were forced to purchase equipment (the volume of purchases for each production site amounted to 500 thousand rubles) even before the release of official documents. At the very first attempts to debug this equipment (first, the system was run-in at St. Petersburg factories, then at Moscow plants), failures occurred: the applied barcode was not read by the scanner.

At the same time, enterprises faced other problems - the lack of federal stamps of a new model, and then technical problems with the sticker of new stamps.

Manufacturers did not have time to really deal with the new excise stamps and partially restore production volumes, as it came on July 1. From that moment on, the circulation of any alcoholic beverages without entering information about it in the EGAIS was prohibited and punishable by revocation of the license. The wholesale of alcoholic beverages on the territory of the Russian Federation completely stopped, since EGAIS did not work. She not only did not cope with a huge number of users, but simply refused to perform the simplest operations.

In order to send the goods to the counterparty, it was necessary to first send an electronic invoice to his address indicating the characteristics of the goods (name, quantity, excise stamp numbers), the code of the sender and recipient and other necessary information. To do this, the sender's code, like the product itself, had to be found in the item guide - a kind of EGAIS database. But this was impossible to do, since the nomenclature reference book for the start of the system contained information at best about 15% of alcohol market participants. And electronic invoices were lost in the system or for some unknown reason came a week or two after sending.

As it turned out later, the FSB-controlled developer of the EGAIS system FSUE NTC Atlas, creating the system, proceeded from his own ideas about how it should work. Users could not even enter the product balances into the system, because the developers simply did not provide for such an opportunity. But if market participants managed to bypass this "flaw" with the help of a fictitious invoice, which was issued and sent to themselves, then it was not possible to cope independently with the rest of the "failures" in the EGAIS.

At the end of July 2006, the Federal Tax Service issued a letter to the NShT-6-07/699, where it regulated the "manual" mode of operation of the EGAIS, according to which an organization that failed to transfer data using the new system was obliged to submit data on the shipments made in paper form. On August 17, the Federal Tax Service issued an order NMM-3-07/534 A 22, obliging almost all users of EGAIS to keep a paper log of the volume of production and turnover of alcohol, alcohol and alcohol-containing products. That is, in writing, duplicate the data that was entered into the EGAIS. And on August 25, a government decree was finally issued regulating the procedure for the EGAIS. The document, which the developer was supposed to be guided by when creating the program, was adopted almost nine months after the program itself was imperative put into operation.

As a result, the transition to automatic data transfer was postponed until February 1, 2007. In November 2006, the auditors of the Accounts Chamber agreed with the arguments of market participants, who proposed to the government to postpone the launch of the EGAIS in full mode until July 1, 2007, and then the Ministry of Finance made a similar proposal. At the end of December 2006, a test launch of EGAIS in fully automatic mode took place at the country's largest Moscow plant Kristall, which again revealed serious failures in the system. Finally, on December 26, 2006, the President of the Russian Federation issued an order obliging the government to correct the market situation by February 1, including determining the state customer EGAIS. Following him, on January 24, Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov signed a decree postponing the transition to automated registration of EGAIS until November 1, 2007^[5]

2005

In the summer of 2005, deputies approved amendments to the law "On state regulation of the production and turnover of ethyl alcohol, alcoholic and alcohol-containing products," the main innovation of which was the introduction of EGAIS.

The 1990th

In 1996, a federal law was adopted 171-FZ "On state regulation of the production and turnover of ethyl alcohol, alcoholic and alcohol-containing products and on limiting the consumption (drinking) of alcoholic beverages"

Within the framework of the law, EGAIS applies to producers and importers of alcoholic beverages.

Connection dates

According to the Rosalkogolregulirovanie (RAR), producers of any alcoholic beverages, with the exception of beer, have been connected to the EGAIS since 2006. At the same time, from October 1, 2015, manufacturers of beer and beer drinks, cider, mead with a production capacity of more than 300 thousand decaliters per year were to connect to the system to reflect production and turnover. From January 1, 2016, manufacturers of the same alcoholic beverages with a capacity of less than 300 thousand decaliters per year must also connect to it to fix turnover.

Cash desks in retail stores in cities must be connected to the EGAIS by July 1, 2016, and the purchase of alcoholic beverages to the store warehouse must be confirmed by them in the system from January 1, 2016.

There are also special situations when connecting to the EGAIS. For example, deferrals are valid for organizations from Crimea and Sevastopol. They are exempted from connecting to the EGAIS in terms of fixing the retail sale of retail organizations in some rural settlements. Customs warehouses of temporary storage (SVH), duty-free stores (Dutyfree) and organizations that purchase AP for use as raw materials, for example, pharmaceutical companies or confectionery, are completely exempt from connection to EGAIS.

Principle of operation in EGAIS

Algorithm of connection to EGAIS

Algorithm of connection to EGAIS for organizations of wholesale and retail trade in AS and beer, as well as for individual entrepreneurs selling beer at retail:

1. Purchase a certificate of qualified electronic signature (KEP) for EGAIS and a hardware crypto key (carrier) JaCarta SE by placing an order on the website egais.center-inform.ru

2. Get a free certificate on the egais.ru website for establishing a secure connection by the EGAIS system (RSA key)

3. Order a free distribution of EGAIS Universal Transport Module (UTM) software on the egais.ru website

4. Integrate the used commodity accounting solution with the UTM module or purchase software that allows you to confirm purchases, for example Retail Declaration 2.0

5. Contact the supplier of cash software to bring it into compliance with the "Technical requirements" of the UTM module

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