Legal provisions of COM(2001)332 - Amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 on the common organisation of the market in wine

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dossier COM(2001)332 - Amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 on the common organisation of the market in wine.
document COM(2001)332 EN
date December 19, 2001


Contents

Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 is hereby amended as follows:

1. The following subparagraph shall be added to Article 11(3): 'It shall cover the new planting rights awarded within the framework of material improvement plans referred to in Regulation (EC) No 950/97 and those awarded to young farmers during the 2000/2001, 2001/2002 and 2002/2003 marketing years.'

2. In the second subparagraph of Article 15, point (b) shall be replaced by the following: "(b) provisions governing the use of replanting rights in general and of new planting rights awarded within the framework of material improvement plans and to young farmers, in the implementation of programmes;"

3. Article 44(1) shall be replaced by the following: '1. Of the products falling within CN codes 2204 10, 2204 21 and 2204 29, only liqueur wines, sparkling wines, aerated sparkling wines, semi-sparkling wines, aerated semi-sparkling wines, quality wines psr, table wines, wines obtained from over-ripened grapes and where appropriate, notwithstanding Article 45, legally imported wines may be offered or delivered for direct human consumption within the Community.'

4. Annex VII shall be amended as follows:

(a) The third indent of Part A(2)(b) shall be replaced by the following: "- one of the following terms, under conditions to be determined: Landwein, vin de pays, indicazione geografica tipica, 'ονομασία κατά παράδοση', 'οίνος τοπικός', vino de la tierra, vinho regional, regional wine or landwijn; where such a term is used, the words table wine shall not be required;"

(b) Paragraph 2 of Part C shall be replaced by the following: "Without prejudice to the provisions for the harmonisation of laws, the possibility for Member States to allow:

- the use of the names wine and semi-sparkling wine, accompanied by the name of a fruit in the form of a composite name to describe products obtained by the fermentation of fruit other than grapes,

- other composite names including the word wine

shall not, however, be affected by paragraphs 1(a) and 3(c)."

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.


This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.