It’s official! Decree will reduce the cost of the sanitary registration of craft beers

The President of the Republic, Iván Duque Márquez, socialized, this Thursday, Decree 1366 of 2020, which reduces the costs of the procedures that microentrepreneurs in the alcoholic beverages sector must perform before the National Institute for Food and Drug Surveillance (INVIMA).

This decree, which will reduce about 53% the cost of health registration of these beers, seeks to accelerate the formalization of the sector before the health authorities and promote its growth.

The purpose of this new norm, which was the result of the work groups carried out in 2019 by the Presidential Council for Competitiveness and Private Public Management, the Ministry of Health and Invima, with craft brewers, arose from the need to solve the problems that affected the competitiveness and formalization of microentrepreneurs.

The Government recognized the potential of the craft brewery sector in the country and in 2019 the initiative was declared a Project of National Strategic Interest (PINE) “A pact for entrepreneurship in craft beer”, with the aim of promoting and formalizing more than 255 craft breweries in all regions of the country, which could generate 8,300 jobs by 2022.

Likewise, the Sanitary Registry of Alcoholic Beverages for Microentrepreneurs was created, in order to establish a differential rate that makes it easier for them to obtain the sanitary registry from Invima at a lower cost.

In this context, Daniel Lozano, spokesperson for Colcas, assured that small craft beer production companies will help boost the country’s regional economies.

“We are going to boost regional economies, because we are 255 breweries in 83 municipalities and, most importantly, in 19 departments. This is a national movement and the Government has recognized it, and we are going to do formal employment in the regions; we are going to formalize ourselves, we are going to have an important impact here in the country ”, added the Colcas spokesman, during his intervention in the act of socialization of the decree.

In the same way, the reduction to a single sanitary registration was established for different presentations of the same craft beer.

Currently, a micro-entrepreneur who wishes to market several types of beers with similar characteristics must obtain an independent Health Registry for each. However, with the decree, several types of beer may be protected under the same sanitary registry, as long as the establishment has the Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) certification.

“This pandemic has been especially difficult for those of us who decided to start a business, that is why this decree that we launched today with the president and his team is not only historic because for the first time the Colombian entrepreneurship is supported, but also because it is timely. To sum it up, before to make a craft beer we needed a sanitary registry, today, with this decree, with a sanitary registry we can make up to ten craft beers “Lozano said.

In addition, microentrepreneurs of alcoholic beverages will have a term of five years, counted from the entry into force of the decree, to obtain the GMP certification.

“We are providing national craft beer producers with an easier environment for progress, lowering the costs of formalizing and registering their products with Invima. Thus, we are encouraging a strategic sector of entrepreneurs with a national identity “said President Iván Duque.

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