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Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1277/2013 of 9 December 2013 authorising an increase of the limits for the enrichment            of wine produced using the grapes harvested in 2013 in certain wine-growing regions or a part thereof         

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# Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1277/2013                     

# of 9 December 2013

# authorising an increase of the limits for the enrichment of wine produced using the grapes harvested in 2013 in certain wine-growing                        regions or a part thereof                     

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 of 22 October 2007 establishing a common organisation of agricultural                           markets and on specific provisions for certain agricultural products (Single CMO Regulation)(1), and in particular the third paragraph of Article 121 thereof,                        

Whereas:

(1)Point A.3 of Annex XVa to Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 provides that Member States may request that the limits for increasing                              the alcoholic strength (enrichment) of wine by volume be raised by up to 0,5 % in years in which climatic conditions have                              been exceptionally unfavourable.

(2)The Czech Republic, Germany, France, Croatia, Luxembourg, Hungary, Austria and Slovakia have requested such increases of the                              limits for enrichment of the wine produced using the grapes harvested in the year 2013, as climatic conditions during the                              growing season have been exceptionally unfavourable. Such request has been made by the Czech Republic, Germany, Croatia, Luxembourg,                              Hungary, Austria and Slovakia for all their wine-growing regions and by France for some communes within the department of                              Gironde.

(3)Due to the exceptionally adverse weather conditions during 2013, the limits on increases in the natural alcoholic strength                              provided for in point A.2 of Annex XVa to Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 do not enable the production of wine with an appropriate                              total alcoholic strength in certain wine-growing regions or a part thereof for which there would normally be market demand.

(4)Having regard to the purpose of Annex XVa to Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007, namely to discourage and limit enrichment of wine,                              and given the exceptional nature of the derogation in point A.3 of that Annex, authorisations to increase the limits for the                              enrichment of wine should be granted only for the wine-growing regions or parts thereof affected by exceptionally unfavourable                              climatic conditions. Therefore, in France, the authorisation should only be granted for a limited number of communes in the                              department of Gironde that have suffered such climatic conditions.

(5)It is therefore appropriate to authorise an increase of the limits for the enrichment of wine produced using the grapes harvested                              in 2013 in wine-growing regions in the Czech Republic, Germany, France, Croatia, Luxembourg, Hungary, Austria, and Slovakia                              or a part thereof.

(6)The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for the Common                              Organisation of Agricultural Markets,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

# Article 1U.K.

By way of derogation from point A.2 of Annex XVa to Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007, in the wine-growing regions or a part thereof                     listed in the Annex to this Regulation, the increase in natural alcoholic strength by volume of fresh grapes harvested in                     the year 2013, grape must, grape must in fermentation, new wine still in fermentation and wine produced using the grapes harvested                     in the year 2013, shall not exceed the following limits:                  

3,5 % vol. in wine-growing zone A referred to in the appendix to Annex XIb to Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007;

2,5 % vol. in wine-growing zone B referred to in the appendix to Annex XIb to Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007;

2,0 % vol. in wine-growing zones C I and C II referred to in the appendix to Annex XIb to Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007.

# Article 2U.K.

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following that of its publication in the *Official Journal of the European Union*.                  

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 9 December 2013.

*For the Commission*                            

*The President*                            

José Manuel Barroso                            

## ANNEXU.K.

### **Wine-growing regions or a part thereof where an increase of the enrichment limit is authorised pursuant to Article 1**

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OJ L 299, 16.11.2007, p. 1.