Wine Law

7 Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia. The adopted by the Eurasian Economic Union technical regulations are binding for its member states on a territory of 20 260 435 km 2 . As an example, this is the case with the Technical regulation on the safety of alcoholic beverages of 2018 (ТР ЕАЭС 047/2018) 25 , the entry into force of which is still delayed due to spanned in the time rectifications with significance also for the wine industry 26 . The Russian technical regulations stay anyway as pioneers in this multinational legislative undertaking. The year 2014 became a watershed in the modern Russian history. The Russian legislation became applicable on the territory of the Crimea Peninsula. The wines of Crimea were banned from all Western markets and their sales shifted entirely to Russia. The import of a wide range of foreign agricultural products was then reduced on the Russian territory with the view of explicitly supporting the development of the local production. The import of wine from abroad remained untouched but as of 2016, in the line with the general upsurge of the national agriculture, first the production of Russian wine climbed significantly – up to a quarter – and secondly the investments in grape farming increased 27 . At that stage any restriction of the wine import was considered not appropriate till the quantity of the proper wine production is not sufficient for the internal market 28 . In this way the need for an aimed support of the Russian wine industry was quite well understood and the process of completing the necessary legislative course was accelerated. Internal and external factors coincided to create an impetus for the achievement of an important new goal – to restore the Russian wine excellence and put it on the world stage. In 2015 an amendment to the Federal Law No. 171-FZ of 1995 introduced a classification of the Russian wines by their place of origin 29 . Appeared for the wines the Protected Geographical Indication (Защищённое географическое указание вина – ЗГУ), coinciding in principle with the relevant administrative region, and the Protected Appellation of Origin (Защищённое наименование места происхождения – ЗНМП), related to a specific geographical place 30 . 25 Source : http://docs.cntd.ru/document/551893590. 26 Source : https://rg.ru/2020/06/04/tehreglament-po-alkogoliu-mogut-otlozhit.html. 27 Source: https://www.vedomosti.ru/business/articles/2016/09/16/657181-sanktsii-podstegnuli- vinodelov. 28 Source : https://m.dp.ru/a/2015/06/25/Krimskie_vinodeli_va_ocher. 29 Source : https://swn.ru/articles/zgu-i-znmp-chto-nado-znat. 30 Ibid .