Commission Regulation (EC) No 1609/2001 of 6 August 2001 amending Regulation (EC) No 1622/2000 laying down certain detailed rules for implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 on the common organisation of the market in wine and establishing a Community code of oenological practices and processes, as regards the methods of analysis
Date: 2001-08-06
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: application of EU law, common organisation of markets, vinification, viticulture

7.8.2001

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

L 212/9

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1609/2001

of 6 August 2001

amending Regulation (EC) No 1622/2000 laying down certain detailed rules for implementing
Council Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 on the common organisation of the market in wine and
establishing a Community code of oenological practices and processes, as regards the methods of
analysis

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 of 17
May 1999 on the common organisation of the market in
wine (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2826/2000 (2),
and in particular Article 46 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1622/2000 (3), as last
amended by Regulation (EC) No 885/2001 (4), maintains
in force Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2676/90 of
17 September 1990 determining Community methods
for the analysis of wines (5), as last amended by Regula-
tion (EC) No 761/1999 (6), with the exception of the
usual methods which will no longer be described from 1
August 2001.

Several of the usual methods of analysis are normally
used by the control laboratories of the Member States
and their precision and accuracy, established through
collaborative analytical studies, appear to be the same as
those of the reference methods of analysis in Regulation
(EEC) No 2676/90. Furthermore, the International Vine
and Wine Office has organised a validation study of
some of these methods with a view to their recognition

as reference methods. This review of the validity of the
usual methods will require a further two years of study,
during which time it
the methods
remain as described in Regulation (EEC) No 2676/90.

is advisable that

(3)

(4)

Regulation (EC) No 1622/2000 should therefore be
amended so that
the usual methods
the repeal of
described in the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 2676/90
is postponed for two years.

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

The date of 1 August 2001 in Article 44 of Regulation (EC) No
1622/2000 is replaced by 1 August 2003.

Article 2

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

It shall apply from 1 August 2001.

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

Done at Brussels, 6 August 2001.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 179, 14.7.1999, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 328, 23.12.2000, p. 2.
(3) OJ L 194, 31.7.2000, p. 1.
(4) OJ L 128, 10.5.2001, p. 54.
(5) OJ L 272, 3.10.1990, p. 1.
(6) OJ L 99, 14.4.1999, p. 4.