G/SPS/N/EU/294  
 
11 January 2019  
(19-0173) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  Original: English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
1. Notifying Member: EUROPEAN UNION  
If applicable, name of local government involved:  
2. Agency responsible: European Commission, Health and Food Safety Directorate -
General  
3. Products covered (provide tariff item number(s) as specified in national 
schedules deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers should be provided in addition, 
where applicable): Wine products  
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable : 
[X] All trading partners  
[ ] Specific regions or countries:  
5. Title of the notified document: Draft Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 
supplementing Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of  the 
Council as regards the categories of grapevine products, oenological practices and the 
applicable restrictions, the importation of wine originating in Canada, the inclusion of 
retailers among the categories of operators exempted from the obligation of  keeping an 
inward and outward register . Language(s): English.  Number of pages: 70, including 
the Annexes  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2019/SPS/EEC/1 9_0214_00_e.pdf  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2019/SPS/EEC/19_0214_01_e.pdf  
6. Description of content: Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 provides for Union rules on 
categories of grapevine products, oenological practices and the applicable restrictions for 
the wine sector and empowers the Commission to adopt delegated and implementing acts 
setting out the technical details on these matters in particular  on authorised oenological, 
practices, products and processes for all the categories of wine products.  
The purpose of this delegated act is therefore to supplement Regulation 
(EU) No 1308/2013 as regards rules that are necessary to ensure the proper functi oning 
of the internal market for grapevine products. In particular, it sets out the legal framework 
for the oenological practices and compounds that are authorised for the production of all 
the categories of grapevine products listed in Part II of Annex VI I to Regulation 
(EU) No 1308/2013.  
The delegated act provides derogations to the acceptable limits for sulphur dioxides and 
volatile acidity.  
The delegated act clarifies and simplifies the existing provisions. It also increases 
consistency between this reg ulation and the international code of oenological practices 
(OIV code) as regards Annex IA to this regulation.  
The Delegated act repeals and replaces Commission Regulation (EC) No 606/2009 of 
10 July 2009 laying down certain detailed rules for the implemen tation of Council 
Regulation (EC) No 479/2008 as regards the categories of grapevine products, oenological 
practices and the applicable restrictions (OJ L 193 24 July 2009, p. 1).  G/SPS/N/EU/294  
 
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  7. Objective and rationale: [X]  food safety, [  ] animal health, [  ] plant p rotection, 
[ ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, [  ] protect territory from 
other damage from pests.  
8. Is there a relevant international standard? If so, identify the standard:  
[ ] Codex Alimentarius Commission (e.g.  title or serial number of Codex 
standard or related text) :  
[ ] World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) (e.g.  Terrestrial or Aquatic 
Animal Health Code, chapter number) :  
[ ] International Plant Protection Convention (e.g.  ISPM number) :  
[X] None  
Does this proposed reg ulation conform to the relevant international standard?  
[ ] Yes   [  ] No 
If no, describe, whenever possible, how and why it deviates from the 
international standard: This regulation consists mainly in an alignment of the current 
Commission Regulation (EC)  No 606/2009 of 10 July 2009 that contained some 
divergences with the OIV. One of the objectives was to further converge with the OIV, 
nevertheless some exceptions were maintained and coherence with horizontal Regulation 
(EC) No 1333/2008 of the European P arliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 
on food additives (OJ L 354, 31 December 2008, p. 16) had to be respected.  
9. Other relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:   
10. Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy) : March 2019  
Proposed date of publication (dd/mm/yy) : April 2019  
11. Proposed date of entry into force: [  ] Six months from date of publication , 
and/or  (dd/mm/yy) : 20 days from publication in the Official Journal of the European 
Union.  
[ ] Trade facilitating measure  
12. Final date for comments: [X]  Sixty days from the date of circulation of the 
notification and/or (dd/mm/yy) : 12 March 2019  
Agency or authority designated to handle comments: [X]  National Notification 
Authority, [X ] National Enquiry Point. Address, fax number and e -mail address 
(if available) of other body:  
European Commission  
DG Health and Food Safety, Unit D2 -Multilateral International Relations  
Rue Froissart 101  
B-1049 Brussels  
Tel: +(32 2) 29 54263  
Fax: +(32 2)  29 98090  
E-mail: sps@ec.europa.eu  
13. Text(s) available from: [X]  National Notification Authority, [X]  National Enquiry 
Point. Address, fax number and e -mail address (if available) of other body:   
European Commission  
DG Health and Food Safety, Unit D2-Multilateral International Relations  
Rue Froissart 101  
B-1049 Brussels  
Tel: +(32 2) 29 54263  
Fax: +(32 2) 29 98090  
E-mail: sps@ec.europa.eu