Industry Circular

Number: 75-7

Date: April 1, 1975

Department of the Treasury

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms

Washington, DC 20226

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ASSIGNMENT BY APPLICANT OF A SERIAL NUMBER IN ITEM 4 OF CURRENT ATF FORM 1649, APPLICATION FOR AND CERTIFICATION OF LABEL APPROVAL, REVISED 2-73

Proprietors of distilled spirits plants, bonded wine cellars, taxpaid wine bottling houses, brewers, importers of distilled spirits, wines and malt beverages, wholesalers engaged in the relabeling of distilled spirits and wines and others concerned:

We wish to direct your attention to the instructions printed on the reverse of ATF Form 1649, Application For and Certification of Label Approval (Rev. 2-73). Instruction H requires the applicant for label approval to assign a serial number of his own choice to each application and to indicate the serial number in Item 4 of ATF Form 1649. The instruction further states that any system of serialization may be utilized provided the serial numbers are not duplicated.

During the two year period since the revision of this form, the Bureau has been tolerant of label applications filed on prior issues of Form 1649 or filed on the latest revision but bearing either no serial number or a previously assigned serial number. With the probable advent of ingredient labeling regulations for alcoholic beverages, it will become increasingly important for the label applicant to assign serial numbers and in an orderly sequence. Consequently, all label applicants are advised that as of July 1, 1975, any submission of Form 1649 which does not bear a serial number in Item 4 or any submission of a label or set of labels on an obsolete Form 1649 will be returned without approval.

Rex D. Davis

Director