Alcoholic energy will be prohibited for sale

The state Duma wants to ban famous among young people alcoholic energy drinks. Soon Jaguar, Strike and Red Devil will disappear from the shelves of local shopping centres.

Consistent with the bill was introduced in the lower house of Parliament in early March 2013. But in early 2014 in consequence of the negative opinions of the government and of the state Duma Committee on health protection, it was decided to postpone it indefinitely. Then the document was intended to prevent the creation of alakotila in all of Russia that were in conflict with regulations of the Customs Union, told "Izvestia".

40 MPs from all parliamentary parties, headed by Nicholas Levicheva ("Fair Russia") corrected proposed in the 2013 draft and a second time brought it up for discussion. Representatives of the state Duma came back to this question once in early August, President Vladimir Putin said that a similar cocktails should be banned.

"We need to promote healthy lifestyles, promote the sport, not only sports of the highest achievements, but also the global sports... Yes, about the ban energy drinks. Imagine, here I am closest to your position, also don't want it to sound that tomorrow all of us will deny, but I'd worked more emphatically than we worked on this day, it's the truth," he declared then the leader of the country.

Note that alconite already banned in several regions of the state. The first in early June 2012 the sale of alcoholic engineers banned Krasnodar region. The Federal Antimonopoly service immediately responded and addressed in arbitration court with a demand to cancel this decision, however, he took the side of the authorities. As from 1 September 2014 these restrictions were imposed in the Rostov region.

To speed up the adoption of the law, the deputies decided to add. Version Levicheva, they were forced to renounce ban on the creation, leaving with all of this ban on the sale of alcohol energy drinks in Russia. In order to completely eliminate the production, it is necessary to change the technical regulations of the Customs Union "On food safety", and it goes beyond the boundaries of the areas of responsibility of the Russian state Duma.

sections: Politics