. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/EEC/305 
14 January 2010  
 (10-0168) 
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 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:  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):  Ex NC 2204: wine. 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft Commission 
Regulation amending and correcting Regula tion (EC) No 607/2009 laying down certain 
detailed rules for the implementation of C ouncil Regulation (EC) No 479/2008 as regards 
protected designations of origin  and geographical indications, tr aditional terms, labelling and 
presentation of certain wine  sector products (54 pages, in English).      
6. Description of content:  This draft Commission Regulation amends and corrects Regulation 
(EC) No 607/2009 (notified under reference G/TBT/N/EEC/264) la ying down certain detailed 
rules for the implementation of Council Regula tion (EC) No 479/2008 as regards protected 
designations of origin and geographical i ndications, traditional terms, labelling and 
presentation of certain wine sector products.  
The draft Regulation deals with various issu es and clarifies and improves the drafting on 
some technical issues: 
- Article 18 (relating to the definition of "Regis ter of protected designations of origin and 
geographical indications" as an el ectronic database E-Bacchus),  
- Article 24 on notification of operators; - Article 25 dealing with control of wines with protected designations of origin and 
geographical indications; 
- Article 56 on the definitions of the 'bottler' and 'address'; G/TBT/N/EEC/305 
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  - Article 63 on certification costs for "varietal wines"; 
- Article 64 on the indication of sugar content for still wines; - Annex XII on traditional terms; - Annex XV, Parts A and B on wine grape varieties; - Annex XVII on bottle shapes. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Preventions of practices likely to be misleading as  to the nature, the quality or characteristics 
of the product.  
8. Relevant documents:   Council Regulation (EC) No 479/2008 of 29 April 2008 on the 
common organisation of the market in wine  and amending Regulati ons (EC) No 1493/1999, 
(EC) No 1782/2003, (EC) No 1290/2005, (EC) No 3/2008 and repealing Regulations (EEC) 
No 2392/1986 and (EC) No 1493/1999 (OJ L 148, 6.6.2008, p. 1) 
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/L exUriServ.do?uri=OJ :L:2008:148:0001:0061:EN:PDF  
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:      February 2010 
  It shall apply from 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 
EU-TBT Enquiry Point 
Fax:  + (32) 2 299 80 43 E-mail:  ec-tbt@ec.europa.eu The text is available on the EU-TBT Website :  http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/tbt/ 
  
And can also be downloaded here: 
http://members.wto.org/crnatt achments/2010/tbt/eec/10_0095_00_e.pdf