CIS countries adopted a model law on winemaking

Moscow. November 22. INTERFAX.RU - The Interparliamentary Assembly of the CIS Member Nations approved a model law "On Viticulture and Winemaking" at a plenary session in St. Petersburg, an Interfax correspondent reported. Such a law is needed to create equal legal, economic, technological and organizational foundations for the viticulture industry in the Commonwealth countries, said Olga Bulavkina, Chairperson of the CIS IPA Permanent Commission on Agrarian Policy, Natural Resources and Ecology and Member of the Senate of the Parliament of Kazakhstan. According to her, it is also necessary to regulate the production and circulation of wine products. "In this regard, the model law provides for the creation and optimization of legal conditions aimed at the development of viticulture and winemaking. In particular, the formation of national raw material bases, the development of nurseries and the technological re-equipment of winemaking enterprises with modern equipment and the ...