In the last interview, the director of the Bureau of Economic Security, Oleksandr Tsyvinsky, voiced a position that the market had been waiting for a long time - and that the state should have heard a long time ago.

(https://biz.liga.net/ua/all/fmcg/novosti/z-urakhuvanniam-vtrat-biudzhetu-dyrektor-beb-nazvav-dotsilnoiu-lehalizatsiiu-veypiv-z-dobavkamy)

The key message is clear and unadorned: a move towards legalization and excise regulation of nicobuster. Today, it is the heart of the shadow market and at the same time the key to its civilized integration into the country's economy.

The facts speak for themselves:
❗️ more than 93% of the market is in the shadows
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❗️ UAH 7.5 billion go past the budget every year
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❕ prohibitions did not stop consumption - they simply made it uncontrollable.
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BEB directly acknowledges the obvious:
when the product is consumed, it will be sold. The only question is who and under what conditions.

The position of the Bureau of Economic Security is a rare case in our reality when decisions are not based on fears and slogans, but on:
• laws,
• numbers,
• common sense.

Nicobuster legalization is not a "concession to the market". This is:
• returning the field to the legal field,
• real circulation control,
• money in the budget, not in the shadow.

VARES sincerely thanks the Bureau of Economic Security for a balanced, professional and courageous position. It is these steps that gradually transform complex markets from chaos to system.

Because integrating reality into the law is always more effective than pretending it doesn't exist.

Link to the source: LIGA.NET (https://biz.liga.net/ua/all/fmcg/novosti/z-urakhuvanniam-vtrat-biudzhetu-dyrektor-beb-nazvav-dotsilnoiu-lehalizatsiiu-veypiv-z-dobavkamy)