turkey - draft communique on warning messages placed on containers of alcoholic beverages and draft regulation amending the regulation on procedures and principles concerning domestic and foreign trading of alcohol and alcoholic beverages id 407 with the law 6487 published at the official gazette dated 11 06 2013 and numbered 28674 some amendments were made to the law 4250 of the spirits and alcoholic beverages monopoly act. pursuant to 8th paragraph of article 2 of the law numbered 6487 except for those which are produced for export written warning messages in turkish shall be put on the containers of alcoholic beverages. these warning messages can also be in the shape of picture figure or graphic. alcoholic beverages without warning messages cannot be supplied and sold. the mentioned law entered into force on 11 june 2013. according to the law secondary legislation concerning aforementioned paragraph of article 2 has to enter into force within 2 months after the publication of the law that is as of 11 august 2013. for this reason the communique on warning messages placed on containers of alcoholic beverages was prepared. mentioned communique regulates the principles of using warning messages to prevent alcohol consumption while pregnant and while driving and about the prohibition to sell alcoholic beverages to minors. with the communique one written and three graphic messages have been prepared to be used on the container of alcoholic beverages. also fonts font sizes location of the warnings are stated within the communique taking into account various container sizes. according to the communique one written and 3 graphic messages have to be applied on all inner and outer surfaces of the containers of the alcoholic beverages except their bottom surfaces. also these warning messages cannot be hidden covered or cropped article 2 9 of the law regulates the usage of trademark on alcoholic beverages and article 2 10 of the law requires the indication of the amount of residual alcohol content on the packages of alcoholic beverages. in order to implement the abovementioned provisions the draft regulation amending the regulation on procedures and principles concerning domestic and foreign trading of alcohol and alcoholic beverages was prepared. pursuant to article 2 of the draft regulation except for those which are produced for export if there is residual alcohol in the content of non-alcoholic beverage which is obtained from the processing of alcoholic beverages the amount of alcohol in the non-alcoholic beverages shall be indicated on the inner packages which directly contact to the products or on the labels affixed to the packages. on the other hand if there is no residual alcohol in the content of non-alcoholic beverage this information shall be indicated with a phrase as alcohol was fully removed on the inner packages or on the labels attached to the packages. according to article 4 of the draft regulation brand identification or distinguishing sign for alcoholic beverages shall not be used on the non-alcoholic beverages and on the products other than alcoholic beverages. in addition to that any brand or identifying or distinguishing sign of non-alcoholic beverages and the products other than alcoholic beverages shall not be used on the alcoholic beverages. products which are produced for exportation are excluded from this provision