Smokers have prepared a new ban

Domestic authorities 2015 prepare regular measures to combat Smoking. With cigarette packs will take attracting slogans, scary signs about the dangers of Smoking "rise" to the top of the stack, as snuff and chewing tobacco and even appears to be banned.

The latest rules of quality control of tobacco products was discussed at the meeting of the Advisory Council for cooperation of the Eurasian economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and the Belarusian-Kazakh-Russian business community. Currently in Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan there is no single technical regulations on cigarettes. But when the new rules will work, different national rules will be harmonized. While the unavailability of the CU joint tekhstandart leads to the emergence and spread of counterfeits. Suffers in the result of the buyer. Implementation of requirements of technical regulations of the vehicle may put an end to this problem.

In General, the Russian smokers expect three main configuration. In-1-x, will stop the trafficking of smokeless tobacco products. Also, will not be permitted to place a marketing enticing slogans on packs. And warning labels about the dangers of Smoking will be marked on top of it, according to "Russian newspaper".

In the final demand of the Russian tobacco business sees a contradiction: sort of warning picture must not overlap with other labels and components of the packaging. And on the other, if the picture is on top, the part of the image will block stamps, and the figure will be divided into 2 parts valve package.

When this "contradiction" implement the CU, Russian tobacco industry will suffer big losses in the reformatting of the packing process. Experience of creation of national technical regulations on tobacco products in 2009 forced the tobacco industry to bear the costs of packaging changes: up to 22 thousand Euro per product unit. According to some estimates, the costs of replacing tobacco packing in the territory of the TC can be more than 17.5 million euros.

But there is a point of view that domestic manufacturers of tobacco more afraid of competition with Kazakhstan and Belarus, which will result in lower profits. The average price of a pack of tobacco in our country is 60 rubles, at that time, as in Belarus - 37, but in Kazakhstan - 43 rubles. These cost only last year led to the fact that in Russia there was an unexpected growth of sales of Belarusian and Kazakh cigarettes. Their sizes in Russia increased in 5 times.

And, according to experts, if at the moment to introduce common to TC
standard cigarette pack, the buyer will be difficult to distinguish Russian cigarettes and products created for surrounding States." Unification of packaging will accelerate the process of care of the domestic market in the shadow. And to the responsible illegal purchases of such products, which the Russian tobacco producers called smuggling, will be added and irresponsible buy cheap cigarettes from neighboring countries.

Also, from the unification of packaging will suffer and the Russian budget, declare professionals: smokers will buy cigarettes on the market, called domestic tobacco producers "grey". According to specialists, each percent of the market, leaving in the shadow, will deprive the state of more than 3 billion rubles.. .

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