Producing Scotch Whisky Find out about applying for the Spirit Drinks Verification Scheme, how to submit brand information, fees and making sure your production process is compliant. From: Contents This guidance is for anyone who: is involved, or intends to be involved, in any of the 5 Scotch Whisky production processes receives Scotch Whisky in bulk markets, or intends to market, their product as Scotch Whisky It will help you find out: who should apply for verification what fees you’ll need to pay what happens if a production process is found to be non-compliant how HMRC verifies compliance with the Technical File for Scotch Whisky and recovers its verification costs