On June 14, 2019, the National Assembly passed the Law on Prevention and Control of Alcohol and Beer Harm. Accordingly, this Law takes effect on January 1, 2020.
One of the outstanding contents of the Law on Prevention and Control of Alcoholism related to the management of alcohol trading, specifically:
Firstly, about production conditions:
a) Conditions for licensing industrial alcohol production with an alcohol content of 5.5 degrees or more include:
– Enterprises established under the provisions of law;
– Having a line of machinery, industrial equipment, and alcohol production technology processes that meet the expected production scale;
– Ensuring food safety and environmental protection conditions as prescribed by law;
– Having qualified and professional technical staff suitable to the liquor production industry.
b) Conditions for granting a license for manual liquor production with an alcohol content of 5.5 degrees or higher for business purposes, except for cases sold to establishments having liquor production licenses for re-processing, including:
– Enterprises, cooperatives, unions of cooperatives or business households established under the provisions of law;
– Ensuring food safety conditions in accordance with the law.
c) Conditions for households and individuals manually producing liquor with an alcohol content of 5.5 degrees or more to be sold to establishments having liquor production licenses for re-processing include:
– Having a sale and purchase contract with a liquor production license establishment and registering with the People’s Committee of the commune where the production facility is located;
– Ensuring food safety conditions as prescribed by law.
Secondly, for the licensing conditions of trading alcohol with an alcohol content of 5.5 degrees or more including:
– Business registration in accordance with the law;
– Meet the conditions for each type of alcohol trading.
In order to ensure the proper and unified implementation, the Government shall detail this Article in the next process and regulate the management of alcohol trading with a liquor content of under 5.5 degrees.
The enactment of the Law on Prevention and Control of Alcohol and Beer Harm is essential in the context of the current alcohol and beer abuse, playing an important role in reducing the harmful effects of alcohol, as well as being a legal basis for activities. action to deal with alcohol abuse.