November 2, 2018 - The company “Plantaze” was officially able to submit a request to the Rospotrebnadzor to suspend the temporary ban of “Plantaze” wines on Russia's territory on Monday, said the Production Manager of “Plantaze” Milan Milutinović.
Rospotrebnadzor is the Russian control and inspection body in the area of trade and consumer rights protection, which, as Milutinovic states, has refused, without any written explanation, to receive the Montenegrin company's request through its archive. Russian courts refuted the appeal in April and May on the decision to temporarily ban the import of “Plantaze” wines to Russia.
"Given that the actions against our main distributor and sub-distributor are initiated on the alleged defect of our products, ending in their favor, their outcomes are going in our favor, and we have been advised by the attorney-in-law team from Moscow to proceed with the proceeding so that, with their mediation, by official letter to the competent authority of Russia's Rospotrebnadzor, requesting to terminate the temporary ban on imports of our products into the territory of the Russian Federation," Milutinović said to “Pobjeda”.
“Plantaze” has invited representatives of Rospotrebnadzor so that their specialists will visit the production facilities of “Plantaze” in Podgorica in order to immediately assure the quality of these products.
"We point out that the competent Rospotrebnadzor has the legal obligation to respond to the request within 30 working days from the day of delivery," Milutinović pointed out.
He reminded that three state-administrative proceedings were initiated in front of the competent state authorities in Moscow on the occasion of the control of the correctness of the wine from “Plantaze”.
"The decision to temporarily ban the import of our products on the territory of the Russian Federation was made on 26th April last year, and the decision was delivered only at the end of January this year, so our attorneys have only been able to appeal after that moment," explained Milutinović.
He reminded that “Plantaze” received a notice at the end of February last year from the state authority responsible for control and inspection activities in the area of trade and consumer protection rights of Rospotrebnadzoror, that their wines, or series of certain types of wine, sampled, on the basis, as stated, anonymously submitted applications have an elevated level higher than the permitted pesticide of metalaxyl and plastic particles of diphthalate and that, as they stated, such wine is detrimental and improper, and that they will have to withdraw it from the Russian market.
Text by Pobjeda, on November 2nd 2018, read more at CdM
