LEADING RUSSIAN COSMETICS AND PERFUME PRODUCERS PROTEST OVER INTRODUCTION OF MARKING PRACTICE

Leading Russian cosmetics and perfume producers have called on Russia’s President Vladimir Putin to block the introduction of mandatory security labelling rules in the country’s personal care product industry to help the fight against counterfeiting and piracy. This follows the May 3 approval by the Russian government of a list of goods, that will become subject to mandatory labelling, with each product unit assigned a unique code, creating a labelling system where all identification information will be stored digitally. Marking codes will be protected using ...


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