Document and Entity Information	3 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2012	May 08, 2012
Entity Information [Line Items]
Document Type	10-Q
Amendment Flag	true
Amendment Description	Central European Distribution Corporation (“we”, “us”, “our,” or the “Company”) is filing this Amendment No. 1 on Form 10-Q/A (this “Amendment”) to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the three months ended March 31, 2012, initially filed with the SEC on May 10, 2012 (the “Original Filing”). This Form 10-Q/A amends the Original Filing to restate the Company’s unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements for the three months ended March 31, 2012 and 2011 (the “Restatement”). As previously disclosed, the Company changed its senior management at its principal operating subsidiary in Russia, the Russian Alcohol Group (“RAG”), during April 2012. Following this change, senior Company management requested that the new management team review RAG’s business operations and internal controls, including an assessment of the resources and needs of the corporate finance and reporting departments. Based on the preliminary findings of that review, senior management concluded that the Company’s financial statements for the years ended December 31, 2011 and 2010 should no longer be relied upon because of a failure to reflect the timely reporting of the full amount of retroactive trade rebates and trade marketing refunds provided to RAG’s customers in Russia.Thereafter, the Audit Committee of the Company’s Board of Directors initiated an internal investigation, with the assistance of outside counsel and forensic accountants engaged by outside counsel, regarding the Company’s retroactive trade rebates, trade marketing refunds and related accounting issues. The Audit Committee, through its counsel, voluntarily notified the SEC of the investigation and is cooperating with the SEC. The Audit Committee has completed its accounting investigation, and has identified accounting irregularities at RAG, which resulted in the understatement of retroactive trade rebates and trade marketing refunds, as well as certain other errors that were concealed from both the Company’s senior management and the independent auditors. Certain reclassifications have also been made to conform data for all periods presented with the current presentation. For a more detailed description of the Restatement, see Note 2, “Restatement of unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements”, to the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.As a result of the investigation, the Company has also determined that a control deficiency existed which contributed to the incorrect accounting for the Company’s retroactive trade rebates and trade marketing refunds for customers giving rise to the Restatement and that this deficiency constituted a material weakness in internal control over financial reporting. In connection with the investigation, the Company’s management also identified a material weakness in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting regarding the implementation of our policy on compliance with applicable laws as of December 31, 2011. Furthermore, the Company has expanded certain disclosure items related to income taxes in Note 8, as well as fair value measurement in Note 15.We are also filing a quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the three and six months ended June 30, 2012 which includes restated balances and results as of and for the three and six months ended June 30, 2011, an amendment on Form 10-K/A for the year ended December 31, 2011 which includes restated balances and results as of and for the year ended December 31, 2010, and an amendment on Form 10-Q/A to the Company’s quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2011 to restate the Company’s consolidated balance sheets as of those dates, and the consolidated statements of operations, the consolidated statements of cash flows, and the consolidated statement of changes in stockholders’ equity and the notes related thereto for periods covered by such financial statements to reflect the effects of the Restatement on the Company’s respective annual and unaudited Interim financial information.This Amendment amends and restates only Items 1, 2, and 4 of Part I of the Original Filing, in each case, solely as a result of, and to reflect, the Restatement and no other information in the Original Filing is amended hereby. Except as required to reflect the effects of the Restatement, no additional modifications or updates in this Amendment have been made to the Original Filing. Information not affected by the Restatement remains unchanged and reflects the disclosures made at the time of the Original Filing. This Amendment does not describe other events occurring after the original filing, including exhibits, or modify or update those disclosures affected by subsequent events. Accordingly, this Amendment should be read in conjunction with our filings made with the SEC subsequent to the date of the Original Filing, including any amendments to those filings. In addition, pursuant to the rules of the SEC, Item 6 of Part II of the Original Filing has been amended to contain currently dated certifications from the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, as required by Sections 302 and 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. The certifications of the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer are attached to this Amendment as Exhibits 31.1, 31.2, 32.1 and 32.2.
Document Period End Date	Mar. 31, 2012
Document Fiscal Year Focus	2012
Document Fiscal Period Focus	Q1
Trading Symbol	cedc
Entity Registrant Name	CENTRAL EUROPEAN DISTRIBUTION CORP
Entity Central Index Key	0001046880
Current Fiscal Year End Date	--12-31
Entity Filer Category	Large Accelerated Filer
Entity Common Stock, Shares Outstanding		78,842,022