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Excise License Renewal Extension

This document is a letter from the Commissioner of Excise to all Deputy Commissioners regarding the renewal of licenses for molasses, distilleries, breweries, micro-breweries and wineries for the year 2020-2021. [1] Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown, businesses have faced reduced operations and financial hardship, making it difficult to complete license renewals by the stipulated deadline. [2] The letter grants permission to continue daily business until July 31st for entities that were unable to renew licenses by June 30th. It also extends the validity of import/export clearances and shifts of liquor production units until July 31st.

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Excise License Renewal Extension

This document is a letter from the Commissioner of Excise to all Deputy Commissioners regarding the renewal of licenses for molasses, distilleries, breweries, micro-breweries and wineries for the year 2020-2021. [1] Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown, businesses have faced reduced operations and financial hardship, making it difficult to complete license renewals by the stipulated deadline. [2] The letter grants permission to continue daily business until July 31st for entities that were unable to renew licenses by June 30th. It also extends the validity of import/export clearances and shifts of liquor production units until July 31st.

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No.

ECD/01/GEN-DST/2020- Office of the Commissioner of


21 Excise. 2nd Floor, TTMC
building ‘A’ Block, BMTC,
Shantinagar, Bangalore 27
Date: 30.06.2020

To,
All the Deputy Commissioners/ Deputy Commissioners of Excise

Sir,
Subject: Submission of proposal for license renewal pertaining to

Mollasses/ Distillery/ brewery/ Micro-brewery/ wineries for the

year 2020-21- Reg.

Reference:
1) This office letter No. ECD/11/REV/GEN/2019-20 dated
27.04.2020
2) This office letter No. ECE/01/Molasses/2020-21 dated
21.05.2020
3) Letters of The Karnataka Brewers and Distillers Association
(R), Bangalore dated 26.06.2020 and 27.06.2020
4) Letter of Karnataka State Wine Manufacturers Association (R)
dated 29.06.2020

*****
In connection with the above shown subject, in the letters

of Ref(1) and (2) it was instructed to submit the proposal for

license renewal pertaining to Mollasses/ Distillery/ brewery/

Micro-brewery/ wineries for the year 2020-21.


Because of Covid-19 pandemic lockdown is in force,

business is reduced, and severe financial hardship is being gone

through, as it was not possible to complete the process of renewal

of license for the year 2020-2021 within stipulated period of

time, it is requested by various entities vide the Ref(3) and (4) to

extend the renewal period, accordingly below shown directions

are hereby issued.

1. In the cases where renewal was made prior to 30.06.2020 and

not issued with the license, it has become inevitable to stop the

business by the licensee since from 01.07.2020. Therefore, in

view of the generation of income for the government and to

make sure that customers to get legally produced liquor

manufactured in distillery/ brewery/ winery/ microbrewery

and also to facilitate the business/ movement of liquor, sale

and transport of spirits (import and export), if it was not

possible to renew the license prior to 30.06.2020, reserving the

order of renewal of license for the year 2020-21, permission is

hereby granted to continue the daily business till 31.07.2020.

This permission also covers Concurrence for Export of

Liquor/ Beer/ Wine/ Low alcoholic beverages etc., & Import

of Spirit.
2. In order to facilitate the production of liquor by the units

without any interruption, permission is hereby granted to

extend the duration of NOCs pertaining to import and export

till 31.07.2020.

3. It is instructed to make arrangements for meeting the demands

of liquor by the

For the liquor production distillery/ brewery units which have

obtained permission to function in 2 nd and 3rd shifts for the

year 2019-20 in view of the revenue to the government and to

continue the functioning till 31.07.2020 under the shifts for

which permission has been taken and to make arrangements of

suitable staff for the supervision of production activities

during this period.

4. Permission is hereby granted for the M-1, M-2 Molasses

licenses issued to Sugar Factories/ Primary Distilleries,

poultry/cattle feed manufacturing units, other industrial units,

molasses export licenses, reserving the order of license

renewal till 31.07.2020 and to continue daily routine business.

Following the order of Yours faithfully


Commissioner of Excise Sd/-
For the Commissioner of
Excise

Copy to the below shown, and for suitable action:


1. Managing Director, Karnataka State Liquor Corporation,

Bangalore

2. Secretary (Administration), The Karnataka Brewers &

Distillers Association (R), Mysugar building, Shri.

Jayachamarajendra Odeyar Road, Bangalore

3. President, Karnataka State Wine Producers Association

(R), Manish Mansion, #18, 3rd Floor, 3rd main road, NR

Colony, Bangalore

4. Craft Brewers Association of India, 101, 1 st Floor, Embassy

Classic, Vittal Malya Road, Bengaluru.

5. Office Copy/ Additional Copy

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