The licensing fee will be adopted to the quantity of the marketed wine

The Ministry of Rural Development (VM) significantly reduced the fee on wine marketing authorization and the related fees of analytical tests. With the forthcoming measure, which will come into force on the 1^st of August, the ministry wants to help to the smaller wineries – the ministry told MTI.

Until the first 50 hectoliters of the marketed items one will have to pay 7,500 HUF per hectoliter, between 51-500. hectoliters a further 120 HUF per hectoliter, over 500 hectoliters the ministry requires a further 26,100 HUF. The taste test – if it is carried out by not a local wine-jury, but the National Food Chain Safety Office (NÉBIH) – will cost three thousand HUF, and the surcharge of the expeditious procedure will cost 25 thousand HUF. (MTI)