. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/EEC/252 
18 February 2009  
 (09-0860) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6 
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
  
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 auth ority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above :   
European Commission 
EC-TBT Enquiry Point Fax:  +(32) 2 299 80 43 E-mail:  ec-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, grapevine products 
and oenological practices.  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft Commission 
Regulation laying down detailed  rules for implementing C ouncil Regulation (EC) No 
479/2008 on the common organisation of the mark et in wine as rega rds categories of 
grapevine products, oenological practices and th e applicable restrictions (86 pages, in 
French).  
6. Description of content:  This draft Commission Regulati on lays down the implementing 
measures of Title III, Chapter I and Chapte r II, of Council Regulation (EC) No 479/2008 of 
29 April 2008 on the common organisation of th e market in wine, amending Regulations 
(EC) No 1493/1999, (EC) No 1782/2003, (EC) No  1290/2005, (EC) No 3/2008 and  repealing 
Regulations (EEC) No 2392/86 and (EC) No 1493/1999, mainly concerning the authorized 
oenological practices, and the applicable re strictions applying to the production and 
commercialisation of products  covered by the Council Regula tion. The proposed measures 
will apply without prejudice to the general rule s for import set out in Article 82(2) of Council 
Regulation 479/2008.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Prevention of practices likely to be misleading as to the nature of the product, and compliance 
with existing relevant international standard s (International Vine a nd Wine Organisation, 
OIV)  G/TBT/N/EEC/252 
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  8. Relevant documents:   Council Regulation (EC) No 479/2008 of 29 April 2008 on the 
common organisation of the market in wine, amending Regulations (EC) No 1493/1999, (EC) 
No 1782/2003, (EC) No 1290/2005, (EC) No 3/ 2008 and repealing Regulations (EEC) No 
2392/86 and (EC) No 1493/1999 (OJ L148, of 6.6.2008, p1). 
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/L exUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2008:148:0001:0061:FR:PDF
 
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/L exUriServ.do?uri=OJ :L:2008:148:0001:0061:EN:PDF  
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/L exUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2008:148:0001:0061:ES:PDF  
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    Beginning of  May 2009 
1 August 2009 
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from date of notification. 
11. Text available from: National enquiry point [  ], or addre ss, telephone and fax numbers, 
e-mail and web-site addresses, if available of the other body:    
European Commission 
EC-TBT Enquiry Point Fax:  + (32) 2 299 80 43 
E-mail:  ec-tbt@ec.europa.eu 
The text is available on the EC-TBT Website:  http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/tbt/ 
  
And can be downloaded: here