The approach to licensing the retail sale of alcohol will change – the amendments were adopted in the first reading

The State Duma considered in the first reading two draft laws on licensing the retail sale of alcohol. The first one changes the rules for paying the state fee for obtaining (extending) a permit, the second one concerns the procedure for its suspension and cancellation.
To obtain or extend a license, you will need to pay 20 thousand rubles per calendar year for each object of trade or catering. The document will have to be reissued and the state duty will be paid again in the same amount if another place of sale of alcohol appears.
Now the payment does not depend on the number of points of sale of the organization. It is 65 thousand rubles.
It is planned to suspend or revoke licenses for individual facilities where a violation has been detected. Now the licensee is deprived of the right to sell alcohol at all points included in the permit, even if the violation is recorded in only one of them.