1. ALCOHOL CONTROL POLICY IN LITHUANIA
Drug, tobacco and alcohol control department

2. LITHUANIAN PECULIARITIES OF ALCOHOL CONCUMPTION

3. Total adult per capita consumption of alcohol by Baltic countries (1990 – 2016)
Source: World Health Organization (2017), EUR/RC67/8 Progress reports

4. Pure alcohol consumption among adults and persons (age 15+), in liters per capita per year, official statistics

5. Comparison of total unrecorded alcohol per capita consumption (+15 years) when unrecorded alcohol estimate is used while combining mortality from poisoning, alcoholic liver disease and the overall indicator of alcohol-related mortality

7. (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
LESSONS LEARNT
Knowing is not enough;
we must apply.
Willing is not enough;
we must do.
(Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

8. Implemented alcohol control measures (1)
Lithuania applies a licensing system for alcoholic beverages (licenses for production, retail trade and wholesale of alcoholic beverages are issued).
Prohibition of home-made alcoholic beverages (except for home-made production of alcoholic beverages of natural fermentation with etil alcohol concentration not exceeding 18 percent of alcohol concentration, and for beer - 9,5 percent only for personal use of natural persons);
Setting of places, where trade is prohibited (in places of custodial settings, police, health care, education establishments and areas thereof, from vending machines, at retail establishments which are not totally isolated from living places
Setting of the minimum age to buy alcoholic beverages
Prohibition to persons younger than 18 (till 2018) years of age to use or possess alcoholic beverages,
Prohibition to sell alcoholic beverages to intoxicated persons;
Alcohol beverages sale prohibition at night time (8 p.m – 10 a.m) in the shops (till 2018)
Reduction of alcohol use through taxation: Increase of Excise duty on alcohol

9. Implemented alcohol control measures (2)
Prohibition to sell alcohol on September 1st.
Advertising of alcoholic beverages was limited in the radio and TV programmes during the daytime. Advertising of alcohol was allowed only at night time on TV and radio (till 2018)
Prohibition to keep open bottles, cans with alcohol inside the vehicles.
From the 1st of November 2016, it is mandatory pregnancy health warning label on all alcohol products. The bottle or another package should be labeled with a graphic warning about the harm, caused to pregnant women by alcohol.
Since November 1, 2016 it was prohibited to organize competition, lottery related with possibility to obtain or use alcohol. It was profibitited for legal enteties to give alcohol beverages as lotery prizes, gift, or anything of value conditioned upon the purchase of an alcoholic beverage. It was banned to declaire/announced about the reduction of price of alcoholic beverages
Prohibited to sell :
- alcoholic beverages belonging to the groups of beer, fermented beverages, alcoholic cocktails the ethyl alcohol by volume of which exceeds 7.5 %, bottled in packaging of more than 0.5 litre, except the cases where such beverages are bottled in glass, ceramic, wooden or metal packaging.
- alcoholic beverages belonging to the groups of beer, fermented beverages, alcoholic cocktails the ethyl alcohol by volume of which does not exceed 7.5 %, bottled in packaging of more than 1 litre, except the cases where such beverages are bottled in glass, ceramic, wooden or metal packaging.

10. Adopted alcohol control policies measures, 2016 (from March 1, 2017)
• Increase in excise tax:
– For beer 112 %, vine %, strong alcohol –23 %.
– This increased final price of beer by about 14 euro cents, vine about 53 euro cents, other strong drinks by about 72 euro cents.
• Ban to sell alcohol in fuel stations enforced since 2016.
• BAC for novice drivers, professional drivers and motorbike drivers 0 promilles.

11. VINE SALES AND EXCISE TAX REVENUE:
RESULTS (1)
VINE SALES AND EXCISE TAX REVENUE:
– ,HLT thsd Euro
, HLT (-13,7%) thsd Euro(+52,6%)
INTERMEDIATE PRODUCTS SALES AND EXCISE TAX REVENUE:
,HLT thsd Euro
– ,HLT (-37,6%) thsd Euro (-23,3%)
SPIRIT DRINKS AND ETHYL ALCOHOL SALES AND EXCISE TAX REVENUE:
,HPA thsd Euro
, HPA (-2,7%) thsd Euro (+10,8%)

12. RESULTS (2) BEER SALE AND EXCISE TAX REVENUE:
– ,HLT 1% thsd Euro
,HLT 1%(-12,8%) thsd Euro (+63 %)

13. National public health promotion fund
Percent of excise duty on alcohol, tobacco and lotteries and gamling fees imposed by the government
Other legal profit € € €
National public health promotion fund
Public health preservation and promotion measures
Prevention projects
Social campaigns
Scientific research
After 4 years of long considerations, in April 2015 Parliament of the Republic of Lithuania finally agreed with the changes of the Health system law. These changes enable establishment of the National public health promotion fund. The goal of this fund is to save a certain percent (it is half of one percent) ) of funds from excise duty on alcohol and other legal profit, and use these funds to preserve public health and promote related activities: prevention projects, social commercial/media campaigns, scientific research and other activities. There are such areas of these measures - alcohol prevention; mental health and suicide prevention; healthy lifestyle promotion.
National public health promotion fund is established in 2016 and administered by the Ministry of Health and Council of the National Public Health Promotion Fund. Many alcohol prevention projects were financed from this fund in last and this years. There are more than one million euros in this Fund in this year and was in last year. I would like to note that the Parliament of the Republic of Lithuania, in order to ensure that more funds were allocated to support health promotion, social advertising and scientific research and other activities, from not only a certain percent of funds from excise duty on alcohol will be allocated to National public health promotion fund as before 2017, as well as funds received from the excise duty on tobacco, as well as from lotteries and gambling fees. In 2016 and 2017 (half of one percent), of funds from excise duty on alcohol were allocated to the Fund, i.e. The Fund amounted to more than one million. Eur. So, in 2018 The fund will amount twice than in 2017.
Areas 2017
alcohol prevention
mental health and suicide prevention
healthy lifestyle promotion

14. Main amendments of the Law on alcohol control, 2017
• The main aim of amendments (from ) is to protect public health, particularly among young people, by reducing alcohol consumption and alcohol related harm:
– ban on alcohol advertising
(with exceptions to name and type of the beverage, the name of the producer, the trademark (brandname), country of origin, geographical region of origin, ethanol content, labeling information, price in sales points, on producers and sellers websites);
– raising the minimum legal drinking/purchasing age to 20;
– person selling alcohol will have a duty to ask for ID, unless the buyer is clearly an adult under the age 25.
– to restrict hours (in the morning andevening) of alcohol sale: will be prohibited to sell alcohol beverages from Monday to Saturday until 10:00 and from 20:00 and on Sundays – until 10:00 and from 15:00. This prohibition will not apply to alcohol beverages sol on tap for local use in catering establishments places.

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