Commission Regulation (EC) No 1592/1999 of 20 July 1999 amending Regulation (EEC) No 2238/93 on the accompanying documents for the carriage of wine products and the relevant records to be kept
Date: 1999-07-20
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: administrative formalities, fruit product, preparation for market, transport document, viticulture, wine

21. 7. 1999

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

L 188/33

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1592/1999

of 20 July 1999

amending Regulation (EEC) No 2238/93 on the accompanying documents for the carriage of wine
products and the relevant records to be kept

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 822/87 of 16
March 1987 on the common organisation of the market in
wine (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1627/98 (2),
and in particular Article 71(3) thereof,

(1) Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2238/93 (3)
lays down detailed rules of application for accom-
panying documents for wine products, without prejudice
to the application of Council Directive 92/12/EEC (4), as
last amended by Directive 96/99/EEC (5), and rules on
the records to be kept in the wine sector;

(2) Whereas Article 18(1) of Regulation (EEC) No 2238/93
introduces the possibility for the Member States to lay
down additional or specific provisions for the products
in question in circulation on their territory; whereas one
of those provisions stipulates that details of the density
of grape may be replaced, for a transitional period, by a
reference to the density expressed in degrees Oechsle;
whereas that transitional period originally expired on 31
August 1996; whereas this traditional practice is used
mainly by small agricultural producers; whereas several
useful amendments to the Regulation in question were
under discussion for a time, but did not lead to any final
result pending the entry into force of a new common
market organisation; whereas that new common market
organisation (COM) has now been adopted and will
enter into force on 1 August 2000; whereas, under
those circumstances, the provision in question should be
re-introduced until the entry into force of the new COM;
whereas
the date in question should therefore be
replaced by 31 July 2000;

(3) Whereas a new closing device for small containers filled
with wine products is in use in the Community; whereas
Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2238/93 should there-
fore be amended so that it may be considered a ‘recog-
nised closing device’ within the meaning of Article 2(h)
of that Regulation;

(4) Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
are in accordance with the opinion of the Management
Committee for Wine,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Regulation (EEC) No 2238/93 is amended as follows:

1.

in Article 18(1)(d), the date ‘31 August 1996’ is replaced by
‘31 July 2000’;

2. Point 1 of Annex I is replaced by the following:

‘1. Cylindrical stoppers made of cork or another inert
substance, covered or not with a technological structure
that can take the form of a cap or disc in particular. This
technological structure must be rendered unusable again
once opened and may be made of:
— aluminium,
— metal alloy,
— shrink plastic,
— PVC with aluminum top,
— food-grade wax whether or not covered with other

inert substances.’

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh day
following its publication in the Official Journal of the European
Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 20 July 1999.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 84, 27.3.1987, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 210, 28.7.1998, p. 8.
(3) OJ L 200, 10.8.1993, p. 10.
(4) OJ L 76, 23.3.1992, p. 1.
(5) OJ L 8, 11.1.1996, p. 12.