There are only 27 breweries in that sector of the market, while 350 breweries would fall below the 30,000 hectolitre limit.
Millions of hectolitres go into crisis distillation every year.
However, small-scale cider makers can apply for exemption from registration and payment of duty if their annual production does not exceed 70 hectolitres.
That is why the measure is so damaging to breweries in the production range of 30,000 to 60,000 hectolitres.
The problem would not be so bad if the limit were lifted from 30,000 to 200,000 hectolitres.
In this debate, we shall have to refer quite a lot to hectolitres.
Therefore, there will be fewer hectolitres of wine which need to go to compulsory distillation.
The republics share a quota of 545,000 hectolitres.
