Rada proposes to ban selling alcohol and cigarettes in stores and supermarkets

The Verkhovna Rada registered a draft law №5805, the purpose of which is to ban the sale of alcohol and cigarettes in stores and supermarkets.

This is stated on the official website of the Verkhovna Rada.

In particular, the draft proposes to ban selling alcohol and cigarettes on the premises of trade organizations engaged in sales of food, children's products, or sporting goods.

Thus, the draft law provides that the sale of beer (except non-alcoholic), alcoholic and low-alcoholic drinks, table wines, tobacco products, e-cigarettes, liquids used in e-cigarettes, devices for consuming tobacco products without their combustion can be carried out only in specialized stationary points (shops) where goods other than those listed are not sold.

In particular, the document states that the ban on the sale will apply in the premises and on the territory of educational institutions, health care institutions (except for restaurants located on the territory of retreats), in indoor sports facilities (except for beer in plastic containers), in places conducting sports competitions with the participation of children, from vending machines, on self-service shelves (except for tobacco products in blocks and alcoholic, low-alcohol beverages, table wines, beer).

Selling apiece (for tobacco products, except cigars), in consumer packages containing less than 20 cigarettes, from hand, in unspecified places of trade is forbidden.

This draft law keeps a ban also on the sale of the goods of the children's range imitating tobacco products or electronic cigarettes, devices for consumption of tobacco products without their combustion.

There are also significant penalties for violating such innovations: ten subsistence minimums for able-bodied persons established by law at the time of payment of the fine.