Members of the EBA Wine and Spirits Committee held their final meeting in 2025

24/ 12/ 2025

In 2025, Ukraine’s alcohol industry operated amid significant challenges and extensive regulatory changes. At the same time, thanks to the active and consistent work of the European Business Association’s Committee on Wine and Spirits, a number of important achievements for the sector were secured. During the Committee’s year-end meeting, member companies reviewed the year’s outcomes, presenting key accomplishments, successful initiatives, and legislative changes aimed at improving the business environment in the alcohol industry. EBA Committees Manager Yurii Andriiv presented the Committee’s results for 2025 and outlined its priorities and work plans for 2026. One of the Committee’s greatest achievements was the postponement of the launch of the electronic excise system (e-Excise) to 1 November 2026. Committee member companies were among the key drivers of an active dialogue with government authorities to delay the system’s implementation. This decision will allow businesses to carry out comprehensive testing of the e-Excise system, adapt digital solutions, integrate new accounting processes, and verify all stages of excise goods movement within the future traceability model. An important component of this work was the Committee’s support for the prompt adoption of the necessary regulatory acts to ensure the system functions effectively. A key area of the Committee’s activity in 2025 remained the formalisation of the market. Thanks to the Committee’s proactive stance and numerous appeals, the Government approved the Procedure for the Creation and Maintenance of a Register of Licensees’ Website Addresses, covering the sale of beer, alcoholic and low-alcohol beverages, and tobacco products through e-commerce. Among the priorities for 2026, Committee members identified the need to ensure the full functioning and testing of the electronic traceability system for excise goods, as well as to continue efforts in market formalisation, particularly with regard to the adoption of necessary regulatory acts under relevant legislation. Special attention will be given to drafting amendments to legislation on the classification of beverages in connection with the entry into force of the Law of Ukraine “On Grapes, Wine, and Viticulture Products,” as well as facilitating amendments to the Customs Code of Ukraine regarding the labelling of products with graphical elements of electronic excise tax stamps at the warehouses of authorised economic operators. Concluding the meeting, Committees Manager Yurii Andriiv thanked Committee members for their active engagement, trust, and consistent stance in protecting business interests, as well as for their joint efforts to improve the business environment of Ukraine’s alcohol sector.

During the Committee’s year-end meeting, member companies reviewed the year’s outcomes, presenting key accomplishments, successful initiatives, and legislative changes aimed at improving the business environment in the alcohol industry. EBA Committees Manager Yurii Andriiv presented the Committee’s results for 2025 and outlined its priorities and work plans for 2026.

One of the Committee’s greatest achievements was the postponement of the launch of the electronic excise system (e-Excise) to 1 November 2026. Committee member companies were among the key drivers of an active dialogue with government authorities to delay the system’s implementation. This decision will allow businesses to carry out comprehensive testing of the e-Excise system, adapt digital solutions, integrate new accounting processes, and verify all stages of excise goods movement within the future traceability model. An important component of this work was the Committee’s support for the prompt adoption of the necessary regulatory acts to ensure the system functions effectively.

A key area of the Committee’s activity in 2025 remained the formalisation of the market. Thanks to the Committee’s proactive stance and numerous appeals, the Government approved the Procedure for the Creation and Maintenance of a Register of Licensees’ Website Addresses, covering the sale of beer, alcoholic and low-alcohol beverages, and tobacco products through e-commerce.

Among the priorities for 2026, Committee members identified the need to ensure the full functioning and testing of the electronic traceability system for excise goods, as well as to continue efforts in market formalisation, particularly with regard to the adoption of necessary regulatory acts under relevant legislation. Special attention will be given to drafting amendments to legislation on the classification of beverages in connection with the entry into force of the Law of Ukraine “On Grapes, Wine, and Viticulture Products,” as well as facilitating amendments to the Customs Code of Ukraine regarding the labelling of products with graphical elements of electronic excise tax stamps at the warehouses of authorised economic operators.

Concluding the meeting, Committees Manager Yurii Andriiv thanked Committee members for their active engagement, trust, and consistent stance in protecting business interests, as well as for their joint efforts to improve the business environment of Ukraine’s alcohol sector.