Wine Law

498 WINE LAW and municipal support are available for research, scientific and technical, innovation and educational activities in the viticulture and winemaking field. Furthermore, State support may be provided for the promotion of wine products made from grapes grown in Russia in the domestic or foreign markets (art. 40). This could be made through cooperation with international intergovernmental and non-governmental organisations and foreign countries to develop viticulture and winemaking and assistance in promoting Russian wine products in such markets, including by compensating the expenses of wineries for the market research, advertising and marketing campaigns. Special federal laws and other regulatory legal acts are intended to clarify the State support in the field of insurance the property interests of viticulture and winemaking entities related to the risk of destruction of grape plantations or grape harvest (art. 39). Thus, according to article 41, State support has to be present in the field of the legal protection of wine products as well. The legislator’s intention is for the wine products made from grapes grown in Russia to be backed by setting up organisations aimed at creating the support infrastructure to help viticulture and winemaking entities and provide advisory services to them. Noteworthy is the availability of assistance in securing patent protection for the selection achievements in the wine industry, as well as State registration of geographic indications and appellations of origin for the individualisation of wine products. A final measure of policy regarding State support is the assured participation of viticulture and winemaking entities in the creation and implementation of State and municipal policy in the field of the development of viticulture and winemaking (art. 42). Such participation may include implication in the development of regulatory legal acts on federal and local levels or State and municipal programs in the viticulture and winemaking field, the analysis of financial, economic, social or other indicators of its development, the preparation of forecasts for said development, the evaluation of the effectiveness of the support measures and the recommendations for State bodies and local self-governments. The controlling State prerogatives and the law enforcement principles are exposed in Chapter 6. Under article 43, a Federal Executive Authority is to be appointed by the Russian Government to exercise the powers legally established in the viticulture and winemaking field 52 . The local State bodies in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation are also entitled within their competence for the control and supervision over the compliance with the legislation on viticulture and winemaking. Accordingly, on 19 September 2020, a Government 52 In this sense is the definition of article 3(72) of Federal Law No. 468 of 2019.