Commission Regulation (EC) No 160/2000 of 24 January 2000 amending Regulation (EEC) No 3201/90 laying down detailed rules for the description and presentation of wines and grape musts
Date: 2000-01-24
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: fruit product, grape, labelling, preparation for market, product designation, wine

25. 1. 2000

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Official Journal of the European Communities

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 160/2000

of 24 January 2000

amending Regulation (EEC) No 3201/90 laying down detailed rules for the description and presen-
tation of wines and grape musts

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 1677/1999 (2),
and in particular Article 72(5) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Council Regulation (EEC) No 2392/89 (3), as
last
amended by Regulation (EC) No 1427/96 (4), lays down
general rules for the description and presentation of
wines and grape musts.

Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3201/90 (5), as last
amended by Regulation (EC) No 1470/1999 (6),
lays
down detailed rules for the description and presentation
of wines and grape musts.

Moldova has requested that provision be made for wines
originating in that country to bear the name of two vine
varieties included in the list in Annex IV to Regulation
(EEC) No 3201/90. That request should be acceded to
on condition that
the wines in question are made
entirely from the specified varieties.

(4)

(5)

Australia, the United States, Hungary and the Republic
of Ukraine have requested that their lists of vine varieties
and synonyms in Annex IV to Regulation (EEC) No
3201/90 be amended. That request should be acceded
to.

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
the Management
accordance with the opinion of
Committee for Wine,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

In Article 13(2)(a) of Regulation (EEC) No 3201/90 the

1.
name ‘Moldova’

is added after ‘Uruguay’.

Annex IV to Regulation (EEC) No 3201/90 is amended in

2.
accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.

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, 24 January 2000.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 84, 27.3.1987, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 199, 30.7.1999, p. 8.
(3) OJ L 232, 9.8.1989, p. 13.
(4) OJ L 184, 24.7.1996, p. 3.
(5) OJ L 309, 8.11.1990, p. 1.
(6) OJ L 170, 6.7.1999, p. 16.

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ANNEX

Annex IV to Regulation (EEC) No 3201/90 is amended as follows:

1. In section ‘4. AUSTRALIA’, the following variety name is added:

‘Chambourcin.’

2. In section ‘10. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA’:

1. the following variety names are deleted from (a) and added to (b) in alphabetical order:

‘Royalty
Rubired
Salvador’;

2.

in point (a):

(a) in the column headed ‘List of varieties accepted in the Community’, the words ‘Alicante Ganzin’ are deleted;

(b) the word ‘Grenache’ is deleted from the column headed ‘Accepted synonyms’ and added to the column headed

‘List of varieties accepted in the Community’.

3. In section ‘11. HUNGARY’:

(a) the following variety names and synonyms are added:

List of varieties accepted in the Community

Accepted synonyms

Weißburgunder, Fehèr Burgundi

Lammer Schwarz’

‘Pinot Blanc

Juhgark

Karát

Kunleàny

Pozsonyi Jeher

Sauvignon blanc

Semillon

(b) the following variety name and synonym is deleted:

List of varieties accepted in the Community

Accepted synonyms

‘Fehèr Burgundi

Weißburgunder’

4. In section ‘26. UKRAINE’, the following variety name is added:

‘Odessa Black’ (1).

(1) According to the information provided by the Ukraine authorities,

‘Odessa Black’

is a variety produced by crossing ‘Alicante

Bouschet’ with ‘Cabernet Sauvignon’.