The main novelty in the soft drink sector in 2006 will be the implementation of the flow meter system - SMV.

In 2005, this new system was implemented by the Federal Revenue in the Brazilian beer industry. Installed directly on the production lines, they inform the net volumes actually filled. The data is collected and sent "on line" to the Federal Revenue Service, which makes it difficult to practice the illegal sale of products without issuing an invoice.

The expectation of the Brazilian soft drink industry is that SMV will curb one of the biggest fiscal problems in the distribution of the product in the country. The flow meters will act against a series of illegal practices such as the "cloned" or "laminated" invoice, a procedure that uses clandestine printers where originally identical invoices are issued, prevailing in the books that not stamped by the transit inspection of goods. Another completely illegal action that has its days numbered is the use of the “boomerang” invoice, that is, the same invoice used for several deliveries of the same product.