S.I. No. 195/1974 - European Communities (Wine) Regulations, 
1974.  
  S.I. No. 195/1974:  
EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (WINE) REGULATIONS, 1974.  
  EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (WINE) REGULATIONS, 1974.  
 
 I, JUSTIN KEATING, Minister for Industry and Commerce, in exercise of the powers 
conferred on me by Section 3 of the European Communities Act, 1972 (No. 27 of 1972), 
hereby make the following regulati ons: 
  1. These Regulations may be cited as the European Communities (Wine) Regulations, 1974.  
  2. These Regulations shall come into operation on the twenty -second day of July, 1974.  
  3. In these Regulations  
  "authorised officer" means an officer of the Minister authorised in writing by the Minister for 
the purposes of these Regulations;  
  "the Minister" means the Minister for Industry and Commerce;  
 
 "the Commission Regulations" means Commission Regulation 1769/72/EEC of 26 July 
1972,1 as amended by Commission Regulation 2814/72/EEC of 22 December 1972,2 
Commission Regulation 198/73/EEC of 29 December 1972,3 Commission Regulation 
930/73/EEC of 3 April 1974,4 Commission Regulation 2098/73/EEC of 31 July 1973,5 
Commission Regulation 2340/73/EEC of 29 August 1973,6 Commission Regulation 
374/74/EEC of 13 February 1974,7 and Commission Regulation 1199/74/EEC of 13 May 
1974.8 
  1 OJ No L.191, 21.8.1972, (OJ/SE 1972 111)).  
  2 OJ No L.297, 30.12.1972.  
  3 OJ No L.23, 29.1.1973.  
  4 OJ No L.90, 6.4.1973.  
  5 OJ No L.121, 1.8.1973.  
  6 OJ No L.242, 30.8.1973.  
  7 OJ No L.42, 14.2.1974.  
  8 OJ No L.131, 14.5.1974.  
  4. (1) A person who contravenes a provision of the Commission Regulations shall be guilty 
of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding  200.  
   (2) Paragraph (1) of this Regulation shall not apply in relation to Articles 2 and 13 of 
Commission Regulation 1769/72/EEC of 26 July 1972.  
 
 5. An authorised officer shall be furnished with a warrant of his appointment as an authorised 
officer and when exercising any power conferred on an authorised officer by these 
Regulations shall, if requested by any person affected, produce the warrant to that person.  
  6. An authorised officer may at all reasonable times enter  
 
 ( a ) any premises in which he has reasonable grounds for believing that a product 
specified in Article 1 of Commission Regulation 1769/72/EEC of 26 July, 1972 or 
an accompanying document (within the meaning of that Article), or record (within 
the meaning of A rticle 15 of the said Commission Regulation) is kept, or  
 
 ( b ) any railway wagon, vehicle, ship, vessel or aircraft in which he has reasonable 
grounds for believing that such a product or an accompanying document (within the 
meaning aforesaid) is being transported, and  
  there or at any other place  
  (i) make such examinations, tests and inspections, and  
 
 (ii) take such reasonable samples, of any such product which he finds in the 
course of his inspection, as he may consider appropriate for the purposes of 
these Regulations and the Commission R egulations.  
  7. An offence under these Regulations may be prosecuted by the Minister.  
  GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 26th day of June, 1974.  
  JUSTIN KEATING,  
  Minister for Industry and  
  Commerce.  
  EXPLANATORY NOTE.  
 
 The principal effect of these Regulations is to provide penalties for breaches of the 
provisions of Regulation (EEC) No. 1769/72 of 26th July, 1972 as amended relating to 
documents to accompany consignments of wine and related pr oducts and records to be kept 
by importers, wholesalers and bottlers of wine.