. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/EU/66 
1 October 2012  
 (12-5283) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6 
 
1. Notifying Member:  EUROPEAN UNION  
If applicable, name of local governme nt involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):     
2. Agency responsible:  European Commission 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above :   
European Commission 
EU-TBT Enquiry Point Fax:  +(32) 2 299 80 43 E-mail:  mailto:eu-tbt@ec.europa.eu  
Website:  http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/tbt/  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [   ], 5.7.1 [   ], other:   
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading. 
ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Wine. 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft Commission 
implementing Regulation amending Annex XIb of Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 as 
regards the semi-sparkling wine, aerated semi-s parkling wine and the rectified concentrated 
grape must (3 pages, in French).     
6. Description of content:  This proposal amends the defini tions of semi-sparkling wine, 
aerated semi-sparkling wine and rectified conc entrated grape must use in the production of 
wine.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
This proposal clarifies the current definitions set in Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 to 
specify that the use of must and wine still in fermentation are authorised for the production of semi-sparkling wines and aerated semi-sparkling wines and to specify that the liquid and the 
solid forms of rectified concentrated grape must may be used for production of wines.  
The aim of this proposal is therefore to expand th e list of basic ingredients which may be used 
for producing the wine products concerned.  
The new Regulation will allow semi-sparkling (a erated) wine to be obtained not only from 
wine, but also must, fermented must and wine stil l in fermentation. It will also be possible to 
use crystallised grape sugar to enrich wine, in  addition to non-crystallised grape sugar and 
non-grape crystallised sugar whic h are allowed at present.  G/TBT/N/EU/66 
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  The Regulation is intended to fa cilitate trade. There is no obligation to use these new 
oenological practices. All wine products, pr oduced according to the existing rules, may 
continue to be traded.  
8. Relevant documents:   Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 of 22 October 2007 
establishing a common organisation of agricult ural markets and on specific provisions for 
certain agricultural products (Single CM O Regulation)  Official Journal L 299, 
16 November 2007 P. 0001 - 0149 
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/L exUriServ.do?uri=CE LEX:32007R1234:EN:HTML  
Council Regulation (EC) No 491/2009 of 25 May 2009 amending Regulation (EC) No 
1234/2007 establishing a common organisation of agricultural market s and on specific 
provisions for certain agricultural products (Si ngle CMO Regulation) O fficial Journal L 154, 
17/06/2009 P. 0001 - 0056 
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/Le xUriServ/LexUriServ.do?ur i=OJ:L:2009:154:0001:01:EN:HTML  
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    21 December 2012  
3 days from publication in the Official Journal 
of the EU. The measure will apply upon entry 
into force. A longer implementation period would be detrimental for producers who would 
like to produce wine products using these new possibilities.  
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from date of notification. 
11. Text available from:  National enquiry point [  ], or address, telephone and fax numbers, 
e-mail and web-site addresses, if available of the other body:    
European Commission 
EU-TBT Enquiry Point 
Fax:  + (32) 2 299 80 43 E-mail:  mailto:eu-tbt@ec.europa.eu  
The text is available on the EU-TBT Website :  http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/tbt/  
http://members.wto.org/crnatt achments/2012/tbt/EEC/12_3826_00_e.pdf