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1. Official Translation REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA LAW ON ALCOHOL CONTROL 18 April , 1995 No. I-857 (As amended by 18 July
2. No. VIII - 1873) Vilnius CHAPTER
3. GENERAL PROVISIONS Article
4. Basic Concepts Used in this Law Ethyl alcohol (hereinafter referred to as alcohol) means material having a narcotic effect, which can bring about addiction to it and dependence upon it. Alcohol products means undenatured ethyl alcohol, denatured ethyl alcohol, ethyl alcohol for technical purposes, alcoholic beverages, ingredients and raw materials that contain ethyl alcohol. Alcoholic beverages means beverages which contain from 1 to 50 per cent of ethyl alcohol by volume. Alcohol advertisement means information published in any form and through any means, by which it is sought to influence consumers’ choices, in connection with the acquisition and consumption of alcohol products, use, and the commercial, economic and financial activities of enterprises. Alcohol control - includes the totality of means employed in this law and other legal acts, including the production of alcohol products, their import, domestic trade, consumption, state regulation means of alcohol advertisement, intended for the general consumption of alcohol and also, the alcoholic beverages and other products, that contain ethyl alcohol, to lower harmful results induced by ethyl alcohol use to health and economy. Local permanent trade establishments and local permanent public catering establishments - whose buildings, as real property, are established through state legal registration, by the laws of the Republic of Lithuania and other legal acts. Mass Events means holidays, festivals and other events, which are organised by state and municipal institutions, enterprises, not having the rights of a natural person, and also legal or natural persons, having the approval of municipal institutions to organise an event (when such approval is required according to the Republic of Lithuania Law On Assembly). Educational Institutions means pre-school educational institutions, general education schools, children’s summer camps and educational institutions for children’s added education (art, sport, languages, technical and schools of other profiles.
5. The Objective of the Law on Alcohol Control and Relations Regulated by It The objective of the Law on Alcohol Control shall be reduction of alcohol consumption in general, alcohol abuse, and the damage it causes to health and economy, and to establish introduction of state monopoly on alcohol product manufacture and trade and the right of state monopoly to produce, sell and import alcohol products, noted in this law, and of granting the economic entities legal bases. This law shall regulate relations in connection with the manufacture of alcohol and food products, with alcohol additives, and other products containing ethyl alcohol, their manufacture, internal trade, storage, transportation, import, export, and use and shall also establish the bases of state control of alcohol in the Republic of Lithuania. Article
6. Principles of State Alcohol Control Policy The principles of state alcohol control policy shall be: 1) to reduce accessibility of alcoholic beverages through taxation; 2) to limit through state regulatory means, private profit, obtained from the manufacture of alcoholic drinks, import and trade in alcoholic beverages; 3) to encourage enterprises to import and sell alcoholic beverages which contain less than 22 per cent of ethyl alcohol by volume; 4) to limit the inducement of the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages; 5) in addition, to use the funds resulting from payments of the established portion of excise taxes for alcoholic beverages, to prepare and implement health programmes; 6) to urge private enterprises to join in implementation of state alcohol control policy; 7) to augment public informativeness concerning the questions of social and economic harm to health and economy, resulting from alcohol use; 8) to augment the number of population members, who do not use alcoholic beverages, or use them infrequently, by promoting programmes of temperance organisations.; 9) to support manufacture and sales of non-alcoholic beverages; 10) to support planning of an alcohol-free living environment; 11) to encourage formation of alcohol-free social environment and social activity. In the event the relations listed in the second part of Article 2 of this law, shall not be regulated by laws, or if legal acts controlling similar relations, may not be applied to them, then in resolving arising disputes, the principles listed in the first part of this Article shall be applied. CHAPTER
7. SPECIFIC FEATURES OF THE REGULATION OF ALCOHOL AND OTHER PRODUCTS, CONTAINING ETHYL ALCOHOL, THEIR MANUFACTURE, TRADE, IMPORT, EXPORT, AND USE. REGULATION OF THE ALCOHOL PRODUCT CLASSIFICATION, REQUIREMENTS AND INDICES OF QUALITY AND PUBLIC HEALTH PROTECTION Article
8. Specific Features of the Regulation of the Manufacture, Trade and Import of Alcohol Products Alcohol products are attributed to special products, the manufacture, import, trade and use of which, in accordance with this and other laws and legal acts, shall be applied a special state regulatory regime. Under extraordinary circumstances, the Government of the Republic of Lithuania, taking into account monitoring results of alcohol use and the economic harm inflicted by it upon health and the economy, may establish upon the recommendation of the Ministry of Health, quotas on alcoholic beverage production and import. Under extraordinary circumstances, when the rate of sickness of the Lithuanian population with alcohol-induced psychoses exceeds the established index, the Government of Lithuania may set manufacture and import quotas of alcoholic beverage groups. The rate of sickness with alcohol-induced psychoses, the manufacture and import quotas of alcoholic beverage groups, which are established when this rate is exceeded, as well as time limits of their introduction shall be set by the Government of the Republic of Lithuania upon the proposal of the Ministry of Health Care. Article
9. Specific Features of State Regulation of the Manufacture, Sales, Import and Consumption of Products Containing Ethyl Alcohol If liquids (technological, perfume and cosmetics industry products etc.) which contain ethyl alcohol, are used as intoxicating drinks, the Government of the Republic of Lithuania, or its authorised institution, shall have the right, basing itself upon selective research data supplied by the Ministry of Environmental Protection, on the use of these liquids and the harmful effects thereof upon health, to regulate their manufacture, import, domestic trade and consumption in accordance with the norms set forth in this law. The Government of the Republic of Lithuania, (or its authorised institution), shall establish the procedure for the manufacture and import, as well as domestic trade of the food products, containing alcohol additives, on the basis of this and other laws, as well as legal acts. Article
10. Regulation of Quality and Hygiene Indicators of Alcohol Products Alcohol products, manufactured by Lithuanian enterprises, imported and sold in Lithuania (hereinafter referred to as - alcohol products), according to their quality and hygienic indices must conform to normative documents of the Republic of Lithuania. Requirements regarding the quality of alcohol products shall be established in normative documents which shall be prepared and approved by the Lithuanian Standardisation Agency under the Ministry of Public Administration Reforms and Municipal Affairs. Hygienic indices of alcohol products shall be established in normative documents, that are being prepared by the Ministry of Health Care. For every parcel of alcohol products manufactured in the Republic of Lithuania, the manufacturing enterprise must issue a certificate attesting to the quality of these products, in accordance with the example, provided by the State Food and Veterinary Service. Article
11. Determination of Conformity of Alcohol Products to Requirements of Normative Documents According to its competence, the State Food and Veterinary Service shall control whether alcohol products meet the standard act requirements of this Law. Laboratories accredited according to the established procedure shall test the alcohol products. The State Food and Veterinary Service shall establish the principles of quality of alcoholic beverages and expert hygienic examination, procedure and pricing. In the event the control institutions authorised by this Law and other legal acts, while testing the selected alcohol product samples, shall establish that these do not meet the normative document requirements, it shall be construed that the entire shipment of alcohol products from which the samples were taken, does not meet these requirements. The Government of the Republic of Lithuania or its authorised institution, shall suspend the sales and further procedure of use of alcohol product shipments, which according to the results of the expert investigation conducted upon request by control institutions, have been acknowledged as not in keeping with the requirements of normative documents and this document. Article
12. Classification of Alcoholic Beverages The types of alcoholic beverages produced by Lithuanian enterprises and those imported and sold within the Republic of Lithuania (further - alcoholic beverages), are classified into groups, taking into account their ethyl alcohol volume concentration. A maximum concentration of ethyl alcohol shall be established for each alcoholic beverage group. The alcoholic beverage groups and concentration of ethyl alcohol in them shall be established by normative documents which shall be prepared by the State Tobacco and Alcohol Control Service under the Government of the Republic of Lithuania (STACA) and shall be confirmed by the Lithuanian Standardisation Agency under the Ministry of Public Administration Reforms and Municipal Affairs. Article
13. Marking of Alcoholic Beverages Normative documents of the Republic of Lithuania, which shall be prepared and confirmed by the Lithuanian Standardisation Agency under the Ministry of Public Administration Reform and Municipal Affairs, shall establish requirements of the marking of alcoholic beverages. Labels of alcoholic beverages manufactured and sold within the Republic of Lithuania must show the volume concentration of ethyl alcohol contained in them. CHAPTER
14. LIMITATION OF ALCOHOL ACCESSIBILITY Section
15. State Regulation of Manufacture of Alcohol Products Article
16. Regulation of the Manufacture of Home-Brewed Strong Alcoholic Beverages Production of home-brewed liquor, brew, and other strong alcoholic beverages shall be prohibited in Lithuania. The Ministry of Health along with the STACA shall establish the criteria for recognition of alcoholic beverages as home-brewed strong alcoholic beverages. Article
17. Specific Features of the Regulation of Alcohol Product Manufacture in the Republic of Lithuania. Ethyl alcohol used in the manufacture of alcoholic beverages and ethyl alcohol additives, must be produced solely from food raw materials and must not be denatured. Normative documents prepared and confirmed by the Ministry of Health Care, establish the criteria for acknowledging alcohol products as denatured. The use of industrial methods by enterprises in wine manufacturing using juice which contains sulphites, is prohibited in the Republic of Lithuania. Installation of such foreign equipment, designed for manufacture of alcoholic beverages of lower quality than those in the countries themselves or Lithuania, of analogous higher quality manufacture shall be prohibited in the Republic of Lithuania. Article
18. Granting of the Right to Manufacture Alcohol Products to Enterprises Only those enterprises shall be permitted to produce alcohol products, which have been granted a license by the Government of the Republic of Lithuania or upon the authorisation thereof, by STACA. The license to produce alcohol products, shall be issued for a non-specified length of time and shall be re-registered every three years, at the institution where it had been issued. The licence to produce alcohol products shall be issued to enterprises only in instances when they have the normative documents, which determine the technical conditions (equipment), quality and hygienic requirements and indicators, a laboratory for testing the quality of alcoholic beverages, and personnel of prescribed qualification level, have been confirmed in the established procedure, STACA shall set the personnel qualification requirements. Enterprises, producing up to 100,000 (amended 15 June 1999) decilitres of beer annually and not having the possibility of furnishing their own laboratory, shall make use of the services of the food product quality testing laboratories of other departments, according to contracts. The licences must include a listing of the types of alcohol products, including alcoholic beverages, whose manufacture is permitted. The conditions and procedure of granting, re-registering and revoking of licenses and the reasons for refusal of issuing and re-registering such, for manufacture of alcohol products, shall be established by the Government of the Republic of Lithuania, in accordance with this Law and the Law on Enterprises. Article
19. Granting of the Right to Established Types of Enterprises to Manufacture Certain Alcohol Products The right to manufacture non denatured ethyl alcohol, as well as, alcoholic beverages, which exceed 22 per cent of ethyl alcohol by volume, shall be granted only to state and special purpose enterprises, in the manner established by this law and other legal acts. This requirement shall not be applied to an enterprise designated in the second and third paragraphs of this Article. The close stock company "Lietuviskas Midus" shall be given the right to manufacture alcohol products that had been obtained through natural bee fermentation process up to adoption of this law, in the manner established by this law and other legal acts. Company “Sema,” shall be granted the right, based upon the procedure established by this Law and other legal acts, to produce non denatured ethyl alcohol as a by product in basic yeast production, and denatured alcohol. Other types of enterprises shall be granted the right to manufacture other alcohol products by the procedure established by this law, including alcoholic beverages , which do not exceed 22 per cent of ethyl alcohol by volume, in the manner established by this law and other legal acts. The resolutions of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania. shall establish the conditions of introduction of a state monopoly in production of alcohol products.Section
20. State Regulation of Alcohol Product Import and Export Article
21. Certain Aspects of Alcoholic Beverage Import into Republic of Lithuania The amount of alcoholic beverages, allowed to be brought into the Republic of Lithuania by citizens of the Lithuanian Republic and foreigners (amended 21 May 1996), and the amount of alcoholic beverages allotted to airline and ship supply stocks, which is permitted to be brought into the Republic of Lithuania, shall be determined by the Government of the Republic of Lithuania according to STACA presentation. The permissible amount of alcoholic beverages that can be brought into the Republic of Lithuania, may be determined according to alcoholic beverage groups. The procedure for import of alcohol products into the Republic of Lithuania and its carriage in transit across its territory, shall be established by the Government of the Republic of Lithuania. Article
22. Certain Aspects of State Regulation of Alcoholic Beverage Import Only enterprises that have a permit issued by the Government of the Republic of Lithuania, or upon its recommendation by STACA, to manufacture alcohol products, in the manner established by this Law and other legal acts, shall be permitted to import undenatured ethyl alcohol, without the right of selling it to other enterprises. Article
23. Procedure for the Importation of Alcohol Product Enterprises shall be permitted to import alcohol products when: 1) they have a license issued in the manner established by this law and decrees of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania; 2) manufacturing enterprises have a certificate issued by the economic entity of a foreign country, certifying the quality of the alcohol products; 3) they have established special marking of alcoholic beverage containers. Registration requirements of documents, indicated in item 2 of the first paragraph of this Article, shall be established by the State Food and Veterinary Service. The procedure for special marking of containers for imported alcoholic beverages and its application, shall be established by the Government of the Republic of Lithuania. Enterprises, which had imported alcohol products, must record this into their accounting documents, in the manner and within time limits established by the Government of the Republic of Lithuania. The procedure for import of alcohol shall be established by the Government of the Republic of Lithuania in accordance with this law. Article
24. Procedure for Issuing Alcohol Product Import Licences The Government of the Republic of Lithuania or, upon its authorisation, STACA, shall issue licences to import alcohol products. The licenses to import manufactured mead brand alcoholic beverages which exceed 50 per cent ethyl alcohol by volume, shall be issued by STACA only with the permission of the Republic of Lithuania Government. Licenses to import alcohol products shall be issued for an unspecified length of time and re-registered annually at the institution where they had been issued. Licenses to import alcoholic beverages ( except beer) shall be issued only to those enterprises which shall submit documents, attesting to the existence of contracts only with such foreign economic entities, which, produce or sell on the commission of the manufacturers (only in those instances where the manufacturers do not themselves engage in the sale) of alcoholic beverages, the retail sale in the products whereof, shall be permitted in those states, on the merits of the reliability of their quality. The Government of the Republic of Lithuania or its authorised institution, shall establish the requirements of the documents attesting to the permission to engage in the retail sale of the alcoholic beverages in the state where they are imported from. The types of alcohol products, as well as groups of alcoholic beverages which are permitted to be imported shall be specified in the licences. Enterprises which have licences to import alcohol products shall be prohibited from transferring to other economic entities by contract, the right to import alcohol products by using in the shipping documents the names of enterprises possessing this right. The Government of the Republic of Lithuania shall establish the conditions and procedure for issuing licences to import alcohol products, their revocation and basis for refusal thereof, guided by this Law and The Law on Enterprises. Licenses to import products of alcohol shall not be issued to newly--established enterprises, if the founders (share-holders) or heads of the administration thereof, are founders (share-holders, the value of the shares whereof exceeds more than 1/10 of the authorised capital) of the enterprises the validity of the licenses whereof, has been revoked in accordance with the provisions of part 10 or 11, of Article 44 of this Law). Article
25. State Control of Export of Alcohol Products The procedure for exporting alcohol products shall be determined by the Government of the Republic of Lithuania on the basis of this Law. CHAPTER
26. REGULATION OF DOMESTIC TRADE IN ALCOHOL PRODUCTS Article
27. Licences for Domestic Trade in Alcohol Products Wholesale trade in alcohol products shall be permitted only with the licence issued by the Government of the Republic of Lithuania or, upon its authorisation, by the STACA. Licences shall be issued for an unspecified length of time and shall be re-registered every year at the institution where they have been issued . Licences issued to enterprises in accordance with the established procedure, for the manufacture or importation of alcohol products shall also be valid, with the exception of cases specified in Article 15 of this Law, for wholesale trade in alcohol products, but only of those types as well as belonging to those groups of alcoholic beverages which are recorded in the licences to manufacture or import alcohol products. The volume of wholesale trade must correspond to the volume of production or import of alcohol products. Retail trade in alcoholic beverages shall be permitted only with licences issued by appropriate local government institutions, in accordance with provisions of Articles 20 and 21 of this Law and having the concurrence of the appropriate police commissariat. The licenses shall be issued for an unspecified length of time and shall be re-registered annually by the institution which had issued them. Licences for seasonal trade in beer and alcoholic beverages of less than 22 per cent of ethyl alcohol volume concentration, shall be issued for resort areas and other leisure and tourism areas designated by local governments for the duration of the established resort, leisure and tourism season. Single licences for trade and public catering establishments to trade in alcoholic beverages, which contain under 13 per cent of ethyl alcohol by, during mass events and exhibitions, as well as trade in all alcoholic beverages at exhibits and fairs held in permanent buildings, shall be issued for the duration of the event only. The specific procedure of the issuance and re-registration of licenses for retail trade in alcoholic beverages and the sale of alcoholic beverages in public catering establishments shall be established by local governments and published by the mass media. The procedure for issuing licences in municipalities shall be controlled by the STACA representatives. The types and groups of alcoholic beverages, the sale whereof is licensed, and the time and place of trade in them, as well as the storage (keeping) site of the alcoholic beverages, must be recorded in the licences for retail trade in alcoholic beverages in trade and public catering establishments. The terms and procedure for issuing to establishments of licences for domestic trade in alcohol products, re-registering or for revoking said licences, or the grounds of refusal to issue same, as well as the procedure of trade in alcohol products, shall be established by the Government of the Republic of Lithuania pursuant to this Law and the Law on Enterprises. The licenses to engage in domestic trade in alcohol products, shall not be issued to newly-established enterprises, if their founders happen to be founders of enterprises, the validity of the licenses whereof, had been revoked in accordance with the provisions of parts 10 or 11 of Article 44 of this Law. Article
28. Requirements for the sale, storage (safekeeping) and Transport of Alcohol Products It shall be prohibited for enterprises to store, transport denatured alcohol and technical ethyl alcohol, with the exception of enterprises, having the licences to produce, import and enterprises, institution and organisations which use denatured and technical ethyl alcohol for production, technical, medical, veterinary needs or in science and research work. It shall be prohibited for the enterprises to keep and import and transport non denatured ethyl alcohol, except for the enterprises which must produce, import, engage in wholesale trade ( supplying it to economic entities, using it for medical and veterinary uses), and enterprises, institutions, organisations, using non denatured ethyl alcohol for production , technical, medical veterinary needs or science and research work. The provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to denatured ethyl alcohol, which is used for fuel, or which meets the requirements or standards of fuel mixtures. 1) alcohol products without the appropriate certificate issued by the manufacturing enterprise attesting to the quality of every shipment of alcohol products; 2) alcohol products of the types, as well as alcoholic beverages according to their groups, which are not listed in the licences to manufacture, import and sell them and alcohol products, the acquisition whereof has not been attested to by legally valid documents; 3) alcoholic beverages (except beer) without the prescribed special marking, as well as those imported alcoholic beverages the marking whereof lacks additional special marking by an enterprise which possesses the right to import and engage in wholesale trade in alcoholic beverages; 4) alcoholic beverages which contain ethyl alcohol not manufactured from food raw materials; 5) those alcohol products, either imported or manufactured in the Republic of Lithuania, the quality and (or) hygiene indices whereof do not correspond to the requirements established in the Republic of Lithuania; 6) alcoholic beverages, both imported and manufactured in the Republic of Lithuania, the marking whereof does not correspond to the requirements of the LST (CODEX STAN 1): 1993 general requirements governing labelling of packaged goods and the goods’ labelling regulations in effect within the Republic of Lithuania; 7) false substitutes of alcoholic beverages; 8) beer which contains more than 9.5 per cent ethyl alcohol by volume; 9) wine which contains more than 22 per cent ethyl alcohol by volume; 10) products of distilled ethyl alcohol which contain more than 50 per cent ethyl alcohol by volume. This requirement shall not apply to the beverages produced by the Joint Stock Company,“Lietuviskas Midus, as well as those imported (having a license, issued by STACA) alcoholic beverages, produced in keeping with a mead brand. 11) home-brewed alcoholic beverages, with the exception of beer brewed in accordance with normative documents, with a license issued in the established procedure) for its production; (amended 2 July 1997) 12) non-denatured, denatured ethyl alcohol as well as technical ethyl alcohol if sold to the population, with the exception of undenatured ethyl alcohol sold to the population by pharmacies in accordance with the procedure established by the Ministry of Health; 13) contraband alcohol products 14) alcohol products without a license issued according to the procedure established by the Government of the Republic of Lithuania; 15) alcoholic beverages on tap, with the exception of the sale of such in permanent public catering establishments and exhibits and fairs held in permanent buildings, trade in alcoholic beverages (whose ethyl alcohol shall not exceed 22 per cent by volume) in temporary public catering enterprises during the resort, leisure and tourism season period, established by the local governments and also, with the exception of beer sold on tap in beer brewery firm stores, at mass events, exhibits and fairs. 16) alcoholic beverages in mobile commercial establishments, with the exception of factory-bottled beer sold from kiosks and mobile shops, which serve rural residents in accordance with the procedure established by local governments, in the sale of beer bottled by enterprises, and alcoholic beverages whose average in ethyl alcohol by volume, shall not exceed 22 per cent, beverages sold at mass events, exhibitions and during the resort, leisure and tourism season established by the local governments, and also with the exception of alcoholic beverages sold at mass events, exhibitions and fairs, which shall not exceed 13 per cent of ethyl alcohol by volume, excepting alcoholic beverages being sold at exhibitions and fairs (taking place in permanent buildings). 17) alcoholic beverages at retail and public-catering enterprises, established in warehouses of wholesale enterprises and importer warehouses, from which wholesale trade in alcohol beverages is being engaged in, and also bottled beer in kiosks, set up in warehouses of wholesale trade enterprises and importers, whence wholesale trade in alcoholic beverages is being implemented; 18) alcoholic beverages in trade enterprises, which are not totally isolated from residential or other premises, which are not linked to organisation or storage of the sale of goods; 19) alcoholic beverages to individuals who are under 18 years of age; 20) alcoholic beverages to intoxicated persons; and 21) alcoholic beverages to officers in uniform. The requirements of items 1-11,13 and 14 of part one of this Article shall be applied to alcohol products kept (stored) in enterprises as well as those being transported by enterprises. Enterprises shall be prohibited from keeping and transporting denatured and technical use ethyl alcohol, with the exception of enterprises, having licenses to produce them and import them, and enterprises, institutions and organisations using denatured and technical ethyl alcohol for technical, medical and veterinary purposes or for science and research activities. Enterprises shall be prohibited from keeping and transporting undenatured ethyl alcohol, with the exception of enterprises having a license to produce and import it and engage in wholesale trade thereof (who supply economic entities, using these for medical and veterinary purposes), and enterprises, institutions and organisations, using undenatured ethyl alcohol for purposes of manufacturing, technical, medical and veterinary purposes or science and research activities. It shall be permitted for wholesale trade enterprises, which have the right to engage in the sale of alcoholic beverages, to sell these only to retail trade or public catering enterprises, which hold the licenses to such trade. It shall be permitted for wholesale enterprises having licenses for the sale of alcoholic beverages, to acquire such only from enterprises which have licenses to manufacture them, and to sell only to the enterprises having licenses to engage in retail trade of such. It shall be permitted for enterprises having the license to manufacture alcohol products, to sell them to wholesale or public catering enterprises, having licenses to engage in wholesale or retail sale of alcoholic beverages, or enterprises utilising these beverages as raw materials in the production of confectionery products. Enterprises holding licenses to manufacture and import denatured ethyl alcohol, and import pure alcohol shall be permitted to sell it to enterprises, institutions and organisations which use them for production, technical, medical and veterinary purposes and science and research activities. The enterprises which hold licenses to manufacture undenatured ethyl alcohol, shall be permitted to sell it to enterprises, institutions and organisations, using it for production, technical medical and veterinary purposes and science and research activities, and enterprises, holding licenses to engage in wholesale trade of them (supplying economic entities, which employ it for medical and veterinary purposes). The STACA shall establish the procedure of adding to the special marking of imported alcoholic beverages (except beer), the special mark of the enterprise, having the right to wholesale trade in alcoholic beverages. Persons who sell alcoholic beverages shall have the right to request, when necessary, that the individual who is buying alcoholic beverages present a document attesting his age. Legal and natural persons who manufacture, sell keep, (store), or transport alcoholic beverages without established special markings or marks, alcohol products of poor quality, false substitutes or contraband, having forged the product acquisition documents or having presented falsified certificates attesting to the correspondence to quality requirements or the prescribed special marking and marks shall be held liable under this Law and other laws. Article
29. Procedure of Sale of Alcoholic Beverages in Retail Trade and Public Catering Establishments In the Republic of Lithuania sale of alcoholic beverages shall be prohibited in: 1) health care, health promotion and sports establishments and within their respective territories, (except in sanatoriums established in public catering enterprises, having a separate entrance, in which the sale of alcohol beverages, which have an ethyl alcohol content below 15 per cent, may be permitted by the local government); 2) in retail establishments, in which the goods intended for children and teenagers comprise 50 percent or more of the retail goods circulation ; 3) at mass events, exhibitions and fairs (with the exception of alcoholic beverages less than 13per cent of ethyl alcohol by volume, and alcoholic beverages sold at exhibitions and fairs, held in permanent buildings); 4) from vending machines; 5) along roadsides of highways and national roads, except in permanent public catering enterprises; 6) within commercial and public catering establishments located at filling stations and adjacent to them, at a distance from the filling station area, determined by the local authorities (excepting beer). The filling station area is the parcel of land whose boundaries are outlined in the project and technical documents of the filling station; 7) at sales enterprises, which are not totally isolated from residential or other premises, unconnected to organisation or storage of goods; 8) to persons who are under 18 years of age; and 9) in other instances determined by the Government of the Republic of Lithuania. Sale of alcoholic beverages shall be permitted in permanent commercial establishments designated exclusively for this type of trade only, or in their special sections assigned for such trade and in public catering establishments, with the exception of the sale of factory-bottled beer from kiosks and general sections of commercial establishments, which cater to rural residents according to the procedure established by local governments and in regular departments, sale of alcoholic beverages, which do not exceed 22 percent of ethyl alcohol by volume, at temporary public catering enterprises during the period established by local governments, for leisure and tourism, sale in alcoholic beverages which do not exceed 13 per cent of ethyl alcohol by volume, at mass events, exhibitions and fairs, and also excepting the sale of all alcoholic beverages at exhibitions, and fairs taking place in permanent buildings. The sale of alcoholic beverages shall be prohibited in retail trade and public catering enterprises, set up within the warehouses of wholesale enterprises and importers, from which wholesale trade in alcoholic beverages is engaged in. The sale of beer bottled by breweries is prohibited in kiosks, established in warehouses of wholesale trade enterprises and importer warehouses, from which wholesale trade in alcoholic beverages is being implemented. Sale of alcoholic beverages in commercial and public catering establishments shall be permitted only from 11.00 a.m. to 6 a.m. of the following day (beer sales are permitted from 8 a.m.) A stamp duty at a double rate shall be collected for the issuance of a licence to sell alcoholic beverages in commercial establishments after 10: 00 p.m. and in public catering establishments after 12.00 p.m. The executive institutions of local authorities shall have the right to restrict the fixed hours of sale of alcoholic beverages according to the established groups of alcoholic beverages, taking into account the breaches of the procedure of trade in alcoholic beverages committed by the establishments and the proposals of the relevant police commissariats. The regulations governing the sale of alcoholic beverages in commercial and public catering establishments, including duty-free shops, shall be approved by the Government of the Republic of Lithuania on the basis of this Law. For breaches of alcoholic beverages sale regulations heads of appropriate police commissariats shall have the right to suspend for up to 24 hours the sale of alcoholic beverages in commercial and public catering establishments. The executive institutions of local authorities shall have the right to restrict or prohibit the sale of alcoholic beverages on the days of national and religious holidays and mass events. CHAPTER
30. REDUCTION AND CONTROL OF CONSUMPTION OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES Section
31. Organisational Measures for Reducing the Total Alcohol Consumption Article
32. Planning of Reduction of the Total Alcohol Consumption In the programme of its activities the Government of the Republic of Lithuania must establish for the period of its office the figures for the reduction of the total alcohol consumption. Article
33. Statistics of Alcohol Product Manufacture, Sale, Import, Export, Consumption, and the Damage Inflicted by Alcohol Products on Health and Economy In the Republic of Lithuania accounting of alcohol product manufacture, domestic and foreign sales thereof, and related statistical information shall be kept in accordance with the established procedure. All enterprises which manufacture and sell alcohol products in the Republic of Lithuania must maintain the accounting of the manufacture and domestic sale thereof and provide, in the established manner, statistical information thereon to the Statistics Department under the Government of the Republic of Lithuania. Accounting of foreign trade in alcohol products of the Republic of Lithuania shall be kept in accordance with the data of cargo declarations produced to the customs. Statistical data concerning foreign trade of the Republic of Lithuania shall be provided to the Statistics Department under the Government of the Republic of Lithuania or in accordance with the established procedure, by the Customs Department under the Ministry of Finance. The procedure for providing and announcing accounting and statistical information used in the statistics of alcohol products manufacture, domestic and foreign trade shall be approved by the Government of the Republic of Lithuania or its authorised institution. A monitoring of alcohol consumption and the economic damage inflicted by this to health and economy shall be implemented in the Republic of Lithuania according to the procedure established by the Government of the Republic of Lithuania in co-ordination with the National Health Council. Legal framework of organising government and departmental statistical surveys by sample of alcohol consumption and the economic damage inflicted thereby on health and economy shall be established by the Statistics Department. Article
34. Restriction of Consumption of Alcoholic Beverages In the Republic of Lithuania consumption of alcoholic beverages shall be prohibited: 1) in all educational, health care, military and para-military, and police establishments and their territories (except in public catering enterprises established in sanatoriums , having a separate entrance, wherein local governments may permit the sale of alcoholic beverages, the ethyl alcohol content whereof shall not exceed 15 percent 2) in state power and government institutions, except at official receptions; and 3) on all types of public transport, except international travel trains and ships which have separate places established for public catering as well as planes, flying beyond the boundaries of the Republic of Lithuania. Executive institutions of local authorities shall have the right to determine public places in which consumption of alcoholic beverages or their appropriate groups shall be prohibited. Article
35. Informing the Public about Alcohol and the Critical Damage it Inflicts on Health and Economy The Ministry of Education and Science must prepare programmes for the promotion of health at all schools of general education and other educational establishments and include health promotion issues in the newly published textbooks. All educational establishments must, upon co-ordination with the Ministry of Health Care, include material concerning alcoholic beverages and the damage they cause to health and economy as well as information about the formation of a healthy way of life and a health-friendly environment which would prevent damage to health caused by alcohol consumption. The Lithuanian radio and television must at least twice a week devote no less than 5 minutes of the total transmission time to the broadcasting of programmes on the health promotion matters at the time most convenient to TV viewers and radio listeners. Article
36. Alcohol Control Programmes The Government of the Republic of Lithuania shall prepare, approve and implement the State Alcohol Control Programme. The State Alcohol Control Programme shall be financed from the State Health Fund. The procedure for setting up the State Health Fund and forming the sources of its resources shall be established by law and the decrees of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania. In procedure to implement the objectives of the State Alcohol Control Programme local authorities shall prepare and implement municipal alcohol control programmes. Municipal alcohol control programmes shall be financed with the resources from the municipal health funds. The procedure for establishing municipal health funds and forming the resources thereof shall be determined by laws and other legal acts. Other legal and natural persons may also prepare other alcohol control programmes, submit proposals on the drafting and implementation thereof to the Government of the Republic of Lithuania, the National Health Board (hereinafter referred to as NHB), STACA, and other institutions which shape and implement the State alcohol control policy. Alcohol control programmes shall be prepared, financed, implemented and controlled in accordance with the regulations of preparation, approval, financing, implementation and control of health programmes as approved by the Government of the Republic of Lithuania. Article
37. Support for the Programmes of Activities of Temperance Organisations The programmes of activities of temperance organisations shall be supported in the established manner: 1) from the State Health Fund and municipal health funds, established by the Law on Health System, and by charity donors and sponsors; 2) by enterprises, institutions and organisations in accordance with the procedure established by the Law on Charity and Sponsorship; and 3) with other legally obtained resources. The procedure in accordance with which the programmes of activities of temperance organisations are supported from the health funds set up by the Law on Health System shall be established by the regulations of the above funds. Section
38. Restriction of the Promotion of the Sale of Alcoholic Beverages and Limiting of its Advertisement Article
39. Restriction of the Promotion of the Sale of Alcoholic Beverages Enterprises which have the right to sell alcoholic beverages shall be prohibited from applying the following means of sales promotion: 1) to release a certain portion of goods without payment or as a bonus; 2) to apply discounts of the fixed amount to the holders of coupons published in the mass media; 3) to organise a free distribution of samples of new alcoholic beverages; 4) to supply their products as prizes or as added incentive to a prize, lotteries, competitions or games, except beer or sparkling wine; 5) to organise competitions of retailers for the promotion of alcoholic beverages. 6) to sell specialised advertisement editions, published in the Republic of Lithuania or foreign countries, brought into the Republic of Lithuania and designed to promote the sale of alcohol products. The Government of the Republic of Lithuania may also prescribe other restrictions of alcoholic beverage sales promotion to the enterprises which have licences to sell alcoholic beverages issued in accordance with the established procedure. Article
40. Restriction of Alcoholic Beverage Advertising In the Republic of Lithuania advertising of all forms of alcohol shall be prohibited which: 1) is intended for children and teenagers under the age of 18; 2) is used by persons below the age of 18; 3) makes use of sports figures, physicians, politicians, art and science personages and other prominent public figures, their person, name, likeness, etc.; 4) links alcohol use with improvement of physical well-being; 5) links alcohol use with driving; 6) links alcohol use with improvement of mental activity, personal problem solving; 7) links alcohol use with stimulating, sedating and other beneficial characteristics; 8) links alcohol use with social well-being, increased sexual activity; 9) favourably portrays immoderate use of alcoholic beverages or presents a negative portrayal of abstinence and moderation; 10) presents a higher concentration in alcohol content as a necessity in alcoholic beverages; 11) presents false and misleading information about alcoholic beverages. Advertisement of alcohol shall be prohibited: 1) in newspapers and their independent supplements, on the first and last pages (covers) of journals and books; 2) specialised newspapers, journals, books, television and radio programmes intended for children and teenagers; 3) over the national radio and television from 15:00 to 22:00, while on weekends and during pupils’ holidays, from 8:00 until 22:00 (except advertisement of beer and wine, whose ethyl alcohol does not exceed 15 per cent by volume); 4) broadcast and rebroadcast programmes of other radio and television stations, cable radio and cable television station registered in the Republic of Lithuania except broadcasts directly and continuously rebroadcast from abroad, from 15:00 to 20:00 hours, and on weekends and schoolchildren’s holidays, from 8 o’clock to 20:00 hours (except advertisement of beer and wine which do not exceed 15 per cent of ethyl alcohol by volume); 5) at concert, circus, disco performances, other public events, theatre performances, and movie and video film demonstration places; 6) at learning, science and educational institutions; 7) at all health care institutions; 8) outside and inside public transport facilities; 9) at petrol stations; and 10) on postcards, envelopes, stamps sent by post. It shall be prohibited to present alcoholic beverages as lottery, game and contest prizes, to persons under 18 years of age. A warning text must appear on the outer alcohol advertisements, regarding the harmful effects of alcohol upon health. The Ministry of Health shall establish the form, content and place of this text in advertisements. STACA shall control the limiting of alcohol advertisement and the municipal governments shall control outside advertisement. Article
41. Establishment of Differential Customs Duties and Differential Rates of Excise Duties The procedure for imposing customs duties and excise duties upon alcoholic beverages shall be established by laws and decrees of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania. Customs tariffs and rates of excise duties levied on alcoholic beverages sold and imported in the Republic of Lithuania shall be differentiated in accordance with the established groups of alcoholic beverages. The Government of the Republic of Lithuania must regulate customs tariffs and rates of excise duties in such a manner as to ensure that alcoholic beverages price growth exceeds the growth of income of the population. Article
42. Establishment of the Minimal Living Standards It shall be prohibited to include alcoholic beverages into the consumer basket for the purpose of establishing minimal living standard. Section
43. Restrictions on the Abuse of Alcohol Article
44. Driving Control Persons who drive vehicles in the Republic of Lithuania may be checked for sobriety, drunkenness and concentration of alcohol in the blood. The employers must ensure that the employees who drive vehicles of enterprises, offices and organisations would be checked for sobriety before starting to work. The sobriety and drunkenness checks of individuals driving motor vehicles on the road, shall be conducted by the police. If there exists a suspicion that the driver is intoxicated (or drunken), the police shall employ measures, provided for in normative acts, to establish the degree of intoxication. Individuals who do not agree with the results of the examination, shall be brought to health care facilities designated by the Ministry of Health Care, to determine the degree of intoxication. The conclusion arrived at by health care facilities regarding the sobriety or intoxication shall be viewed as final. The Health care facilities authorised by the Ministry of Health Care for conducting sobriety and drunkenness examinations, shall conduct medical examination s on individuals brought there, or those seeking such examinations. The procedure for the sobriety check on the road, the maximum permissible concentration of ethyl alcohol in the blood and for breathalyser checks of persons when driving surface, water and air transportation means in the Republic of Lithuania, shall be established by the Government of the Republic of Lithuania. Driving of vehicles while in a state of intoxication, the permission to drive a vehicle by an intoxicated person, or turning a transport vehicle over to be driven by an intoxicated person, shall incur liability under the Criminal and Administrative Code. Article
45. Organising of Narcological Care Narcological care in the Republic of Lithuania shall be provided in accordance with the procedure established by the Law on Narcological Care, other laws and subsequent legislation. Narcological care in the Republic of Lithuania shall be co-ordinated by the Ministry Of Health or an institution authorised by it. In the Republic of Lithuania, persons who have encountered toxic symptoms due to alcohol ingestion, may be detoxified at detoxification centres of municipalities and other health care facilities in accordance with the procedure established by laws and other legal acts. The police may make it compulsory for these persons to be committed to detoxification centres and other health care facilities only in those instances when they may cause substantial harm to their own or other persons’ health and life. The procedure and conditions for detoxification of persons who encountered toxic effects due to alcohol as well as the activities of detoxification centres shall be established by laws and other legal acts. In instances and procedure established by laws, the legal capacity of persons suffering from alcohol dependence syndrome may be restricted and social and psychological rehabilitation measures may be applied to them. CHAPTER
46. THE COMPETENCE OF THE MANAGERIAL INSTITUTIONS OF THE STATE ALCOHOL CONTROL Article
47. State Alcohol Control Policy Formation System State alcohol control policy shall be formed and co-ordinated , within the scope of their competence, by the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, the Government, National Health Care Board, municipal councils, and other institutions established by laws. Their powers with regard to alcohol control shall be established by this and other laws and legal acts. Article
48. The Powers Assigned to the National Health Care Board in the Sphere of Alcohol Control The general powers and rights of the National Health Care Board, the basis of its formation shall be determined by the Law on Health Care System of the Republic of Lithuania. In the sphere of alcohol control, the National Health Care Board shall : 1) contribute to the formation and implementation of the state alcohol control policy; 2) contribute to the preparation and approving of state alcohol control programme and to the co-ordination of its implementation ; 3) supervise how STACA and other government institutions implement alcohol control policy; 4) accumulate and generalise information about the efficiency of alcohol control policy and furnish it to the Seimas and Government of the Republic of Lithuania; 5) make available to the public scientific, information, and analytical material , and issue publications on alcohol control policy in Lithuania; 0 6) participate in the activities of international organisation that are engaged in the investigation and co-ordination of alcohol control policy ; 7) each year shall make a report in the Seimas about the condition of alcohol control in Lithuania; 8) perform other functions attributed to it under this and other laws and regulations of NHB. Article
49. The System of Executive Institutions of State Alcohol Control Policy State alcohol control shall be executed, within the scope of their competence, by ministries, STACA, other government institutions, state agencies, state inspectorates, executive institutions of local authorities, police, and health care facilities. Their competence in the sphere of alcohol control shall be established by this and other laws and legal acts. Institutions must guarantee the anonymity of persons who have rendered some assistance to identify violations of the Law On Alcohol Control. Article
50. The State Tobacco and Alcohol Control Agency For the purpose of the implementation of this law, the Government of the Republic of Lithuania shall establish the State Tobacco and Alcohol Control Agency. Its Competence shall be established by the Law on Health Care System, this law and the regulations of STACA, which shall be approved by the Government of the Republic of Lithuania. Article
51. Supervision of the Activities of the State Tobacco and Alcohol Control Agency Every year the Government of the Republic of Lithuania shall form the commission from the representatives of State Control Department, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the Ministry of and Forest Economy, (Amended 2 July 1997), which shall inspect how STACA complies with the requirements set forth in this law and how it implements the state alcohol control policy. CHAPTER
52. PROCEDURE FOR INSTITUTING PROCEEDINGS FOR THE VIOLATION OF THE LAW ON ALCOHOL CONTROL Article
53. Liability for the Violation of the Law on Alcohol Control Persons who have violated the requirements of the Law on Alcohol Control shall be liable under this and other laws. Article
54. Procedure for Instituting Administrative Proceedings for the Violations of the Law on Alcohol Control Officials of state authorised institutions shall institute administrative proceedings against and impose administrative penalties on individuals and officers for the violation of the Law on Alcohol Control. The instituting of administrative proceedings against individuals and officers shall not release them from the obligation to compensate for the damage caused to health and property. False substitutes of alcoholic products produced in the Republic of Lithuania or smuggled and sold there, (stored), transported there, which do not meet quality requirements provided for in normative documents of the Republic of Lithuania and also the acquisition whereof has not been substantiated by legal documents, may be confiscated by STACA or other institutions authorised for this and controlling enterprises, that control the commercial and economic or health activities. Confiscated alcohol products shall be destroyed in accordance with the procedure established by the Government of Lithuania Article
55. Application of Economic Sanctions for the Violation of the Law on Alcohol Control The State Tobacco and Alcohol Control Agency (STACA), State Food and Veterinary Service, the State Tax Inspectorate at the Finance Ministry, territorial state tax inspectorates, municipalities and the police in accordance within its own competence, shall have the right to impose fines on enterprises, institutions and organisations for violations of this law. Enterprises, which have manufactured and sold alcohol products which do not measure up to norms of quality and hygiene requirements, and are manufacturing , importing, keeping storing), and transporting alcohol products, or are engaging in the sale thereof , are not holding an appropriate licence for such activity and are not complying with Items 1-14, of the first part of Article 20, and parts two, three, four, five and six ,of this Law, with respect to requirements of sale , keeping (storage), transporting of alcohol products, or have violated the procedure of the sale of alcoholic beverages, shall be required to pay a penalty amounting to up to 5 per cent of their annual turnover. For failure to comply with requirements provided for in Items 15-21 of the first part of Article 20, of this law, enterprises shall pay a fine of two thousand litas, and in the case of repeated violations of these requirements, they shall pay a fine equivalent to 1 per cent of their annual general turnover. Enterprises, offices and organisations, which shall violate the requirements of Articles 29 and 30 of this law for the first time, shall pay a fine of ten thousand litas, and for each similar repeated violation, a fine of one hundred thousand litas. The State Food and Veterinary Service shall designate the fines for manufacture and sale for consumption purposes of alcohol products, which do not meet quality norm requirements, contained in Items 1, 4, 5, 8, 9 and 10, of the first paragraph of Article 20, of this Law, with regard to failure to comply with requirements in the sale, keeping (storage) of the alcohol products designated therein. The fines for production, and release for consumption of alcohol products which do not comply with the requirements of the norms of hygiene, production and sales and for failure to comply with the requirements as provided for in Items 5 and 12 of paragraph one of Article 20 of this Law, concerning the sale of alcohol products, shall be imposed by the State Food and Veterinary Service. The fines for failure to comply with the requirements outlined in items 2, 3, 6-21 of parts two, three, four, five and six of this Article and the violations in the procedure of sales in alcoholic beverages and trade at public catering establishments shall be imposed by STACA officials and police. Chiefs of police commissariats shall have the right to impose fines on behalf of the police. The fines for failure to comply with items 2,3,7,12-18, of part one of Article 20 of this Law and parts two , three, four, five and six of this Article shall be designated by the State Tax Inspectorate at the Republic of Lithuania Ministry of Finance and the territorial state tax inspectorates. In other instances of violations of this law and also in cases of fines incurred for the manufacture, import, export and trade in alcohol products, without the permits required for such activity, and the failure to comply with the requirements stipulated in Articles 29 and 30 of this law, these shall be imposed by STACA officials (municipalities shall designate the fines for violations in outer advertising). The fines stipulated in this Article shall be collected in accordance with the procedure established by laws no, later than within one month from the day the violation was committed. The validity of licenses shall be revoked and new licenses shall not be issued for a term of five years from the day of the revocation of licenses, to enterprises which possess licences for import of alcohol products, engaging in internal trade in alcohol products and failing to observe the requirements of items 1, 2, 4,5, 6, 8, 12.of part one and of parts two and three of Article 20 of this Law. The validity of licenses shall be revoked and licenses shall not be reissued for enterprises, against the heads or staff members whereof (if they had been acting in the name of the enterprise or on its behalf) a court judgement, decision has come into force, a customs, tax inspectorate, police or STACA decision relevant to imposition of punishment or penalty for contraband, illegal keeping of alcoholic beverages or labels, transporting or sale and also, the sale, transport or keeping with the intent to sell of alcohol products. Enterprises whose licenses shall be revoked in accordance with the requirements of part eleven of this Article shall also be prohibited from engaging in any type of commercial activity. This ban shall be implemented pursuant the procedure established by Article
56. Revocation of licenses does not relieve enterprises from payment of monetary fines stipulated by parts two, three and four and imposed upon the enterprises. Article
57. Collection of Fines The resolution passed by the institutions specified in part 1 of Article 44 of this law, concerning the imposition of a fine for the violation of this law, and stating the amount of the fine, shall be delivered to the violator of legal acts. The monetary fine must be paid into the State Budget no later than within one month from the day the resolution to impose a fine upon violators has been delivered to them. Article
58. Collection of Delinquent Fine Payments and Calculation of Late Monetary Fines Fines not paid by economic entities and interest thereon, calculated in accordance with the procedure established by the Law on Tax Administration, shall be exacted without suit by the institution indicated in part four of Article 44 of this Law. Article
59. Postponement of the Execution of the Resolution to Apply an Economic Sanction If there exist circumstances by reason of which it is impossible to immediately execute the resolution to apply an economic sanction, the officer of the institution specified in part 1 of Article 44, who has adopted such resolution may , at the request of the economic entities in regard to which the resolution has been passed, postpone the execution of the resolution up to one month. The basis for the postponement of the resolutions to apply economic sanctions shall be established by the Government of the Republic of Lithuania. Article
60. Appeal against Resolutions to Apply Economic Sanctions Economic entities which do not agree with the resolution concerning the application of economic sanctions, passed by the institutions specified in part 1 of Article 44 of this law, may, within one month from the date of the announcement of the resolution, appeal to court to repeal or change it and to get compensation for losses. The appeal to court shall not suspend the execution of the resolutions passed by the institutions specified in part 1 of Article 44 of this law, concerning the application of economic sanctions, unless the court provides otherwise. The resolution, passed by the institutions specified in part 1 of Article 44 of this law, to apply economic sanctions for the violation of legal acts, and its justification must be made available to the public. Article
61. Procedure for the Compensation for Losses Losses incurred by economic entities by reason of the resolutions passed by the institutions specified in part 1 of Article 44 of this law, shall be compensated for out of the means of the institutions that passed such resolutions, which later on shall be recovered from the persons guilty of the violations. Article
62. Utilisation of the Collected Sums of Economic Sanctions The funds that are collected by the institutions indicated in Article 44 of this Law, shall be utilised to finance the expenses of the current year, anticipated by the State Budget. (Amended 8 April 1997) Article
63. Disputes Concerning Violations of the Law on Alcohol Control Disputes between legal and natural persons, concerning the violations of this law and the liability for them shall be settled in court. Disputes between the Republic of Lithuania and foreign legal and natural persons, concerning the violations of this law shall be settled in accordance with the procedure established by the laws of the Republic of Lithuania, unless international agreements of the Republic of Lithuania do not provide otherwise. CHAPTER
64. FINAL PROVISIONS Article
65. Coming into Effect of the Law on Alcohol Control Parts 2 and 3 of Article 4, part 2 of Article 5, parts 2 through 4 of Article 6, Articles 7, 8 , part 1 of Article 9, Article 10 , part 1 of Article 11, Article 12, parts 1 and 4 of Article 13, Article 14, parts 2 through 5 of Article 16, parts 2, 3 and 7 of Article 17, Article 18, part 8 of Article 19, part 2 of Article 20, part 6 of article 21, Article 24, part 3 of Article 30, part 2 of Article 32, Article 33, part 3 of Article 35, parts 2 and 4 of Article 36, part 4 of Article 43, part 2 of Article 47, and item 3 of part 1 of Article 50 shall come into effect in accordance with the procedure established by the Seimas Resolution ”Concerning the Enforcement of Articles Referred to in Article 52 of the Law on Alcohol Control of the Republic of Lithuania”. I promulgate this law passed by the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania. President of the Republic Algirdas Brazauskas