Parliament calls for less stringent controls for self-distillers
Published: Wednesday, Dec 18th 2024, 20:20
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Self-cellarers in the wine-growing sector should be subject to less stringent controls than wine merchants. This is what Parliament is demanding of the Federal Council.
On Wednesday, the National Council very clearly adopted a motion to this effect by Geneva SP National Councillor Carlo Sommaruga. This follows the approval of the Council of States. Sommaruga writes in the motion that since an amendment to the ordinance in 2018, self-distillers have been subject to the same controls as large wineries.
They even had to do paperwork for a bottle that they opened for customers in their cellar.
The Federal Council requested that the motion be rejected. However, it also wrote that it would present a report on easing controls in small wineries in the second half of 2025 in fulfillment of a postulate from 2021. In this report, he will show whether simplifications are necessary. However, self-distillers already benefit from certain simplifications.
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