. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/EU/5 
6 January 2012  
 (12-0034) 
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 products. 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft Commission 
Implementing Regulation amending Commi ssion Regulation (EC) No 555/2008 and 
Commission Regulation (EC) No 436/2009 as  regards the documents accompanying 
consignments of wine products and wine sector registers to be kept  (20 pages, in English).     
6. Description of content:  This draft Regulation concerns  a modification of Commission 
Regulation (EC) No 555/2008, with regard to th e coordination of controls between competent 
bodies of EU Member States a nd access to information via the Excise Movement and Control 
System (EMCS)  by the competent bodies in  the wine sector, and Commission Regulation 
(EC) No 436/2009, with regard to:  
- establishment and use of electronic documents accompanying a consignment of wine 
 products and specific acco mpanying documents for wine  products not subject to 
 excise duties,  - common rules of validation of these documents, - the installation of a single document for certificates of origin for wines with protected  designation of origin (PDO) or protec ted geographic indication (PGI)  or for 
 certification of a wine with indication of the harvest year or  wine grape variety, 
 including wines for export and imports from third countries. 
This draft Regulation primarily aims at implementing the procedure rules. It also aims to 
simplify existing Commission Re gulation (EC) No 436/2009 while proposing to coordinate 
the shape and the contents of the accompanying documents, as far as possible to reduce G/TBT/N/EU/5 
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  administrative burdens for operators, and to sp ecify the responsibilities of operators when 
they attest an origin or the quality of a wine product.  
It finally aims at specifying the rules concerning the certification of the origin or the quality of 
the products which will have to be applied in exchanges within the EU and for export, as well 
as setting at the disposal of the public models  which will be used bearing the logo of the 
Member State of dispatch. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:  The 
objective is to prevent deceptive practices and to protect consumers.  
8. Relevant documents:   Commission Regulation (EC) No 555/2008 of 27 June 2008 laying 
down detailed rules for implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 479/2008 on the common 
organisation of the market in wine as regards support programmes, trade with third countries, 
production potential and on controls in the wine sector (OJ L 170, 30.6.2008, p. 1–80) 
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/L exUriServ.do?uri=OJ :L:2008:170:0001:0080:EN:PDF  
Commission Regulation (EC) No 436/2009 of 26 May 2009 laying down detailed rules for 
the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 479/2008 as regards the vineyard register, 
compulsory declarations and the gathering of information to monitor the wine market, the 
documents accompanying consignments of wine pr oducts and the wine sector registers to be 
kept (OJ L 128, 27.5.2009, p. 15–53) 
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/L exUriServ.do?uri=OJ :L:2009:128:0015:0053:EN:PDF  
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    February 2012 
3 days from publication in the Official Journal of the EU.  Article 24(1)(b) and Article 31 of the Commission Regulation (EC) No 436/2009, 
as amended by Article 2 of this regulation, shall 
apply from 1 August 2012.  
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from date of notification. 
11. Text available from:  National enquiry point [X], or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addres ses, 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/2011/tbt/EEC/11_4386_00_e.pdf