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Retailers consider legal action against city of Tallinn over alcohol sale restrictions

BC, Tallinn, 06.11.2014.Print version
Estonian Retailers Association Chairman of the Board and Chairman of the Board of Tallinna Kaubamaja AS Raul Puusepp said, commenting upon the city of Tallinn's planned alcohol sales restrictions that the plan of Tallinn to cause demise of small entrepreneurship is incomprehensible and the Association could consider legal action, Äripäev.ee/LETA reports.

"The Retailers Association and the members of the association shall make every effort, using legal measures, to obstruct the bill that restricts small businesses. It is absolutely incomprehensible that Tallinn is behaving like this," said Puusepp.

 

Answering the question whether there is a plan to take court action against Tallinn, the Retailers Association chairman said that he does not rule out this option. He added that the plan of Tallinn to ban sale of alcohol in smaller shops, up to 150 square metres, has a crippling impact on small businesses as a whole sales article is essentially banned from the sale.

 

He added that Tallinn has not justified the bills restricting alcohol sale, and the impact of these proposals has not been evaluated.

 

The Tallinn City Government approved at its Wednesday session a bill that bans alcohol sale in shops in Estonia's capital city on Sundays starting March 1, 2015. The city plans a number of other restrictions on alcohol sales, like the minimum general space of a store that can sell strong alcohol has to be at least 150 square metres, that stores that are located less than 50 meters from schools and kindergartens are not allowed to sell alcohol and that sale of alcohol would be completely banned in petrol stations. These restrictions should come in force next summer.






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