Commission Regulation (EC) No 1427/2004 of 9 August 2004 amending Regulation (EC) No 1622/2000 laying down certain detailed rules for implementing Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 on the common organisation of the market in wine and establishing a Community code of oenological practices and processes
Date: 2004-08-09
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: accession to the European Union, common organisation of markets, fortified wine, vinification, viticulture, wine of superior quality

10.8.2004

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1427/2004

of 9 August 2004

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

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 of 17
May 1999 on the common organisation of
in
wine (1), and in particular Article 46 thereof,

the market

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Latvia,

Lithuania, Hungary, Malta,

The Act of Accession of the Czech Republic, Estonia,
Cyprus,
Poland,
Slovenia and Slovakia amended point 4(d) of Annex IV
to Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999, providing for the
possibility to use the pouring of wine onto lees or
grape marc or pressed aszú pulp where this practice is
traditionally used for the production of ‘Tokaji fordítás’
and ‘Tokaji máslás’ in the Tokaj region of Hungary under
conditions to be determined. It is therefore necessary to
further determine these conditions and to provide for a
notification procedure if the Member State intends to
modify these.

Part A of Annex III to Commission Regulation (EC) No
1622/2000 (2)
lists the vine varieties producing grape
must or grape must in fermentation that may be used
to constitute the cuvée for preparing quality sparkling
wines of the aromatic type and quality sparkling wines
psr of the aromatic type. That list should be amended to
include varieties produced in the Czech Republic,
Hungary and Slovakia.

Limits for sulphur dioxide content are laid down in point
1 of Part A of Annex V to Regulation (EC) No
1493/1999. Derogations to these limits are listed in
point 2 of Part A of Annex V to the said Regulation,
and in Annex XII of Regulation (EC) No 1622/2000.
Annex XII of Regulation (EC) No 1622/2000 should be
amended by reason of
the Czech
Republic and Slovakia.

the accession of

volatile acid content above the limits laid down in Part B
of Annex V to Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 but less
than 25 milliequivalents per litre. Some Greek quality
wines psr have a total alcoholic strength by volume of
at least 13 % vol., entitling them to exceptions regarding
the volatile acid content laid down in point 1 of Part B
of Annex V to Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999. Those
wines should be added to the list in Annex XIII to Regu-
lation (EC) No 1622/2000. That Annex should also be
amended on account of
the Czech
Republic, Cyprus, Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia.

the accession of

Annex XVIII of Regulation (EC) No 1622/2000 sets out
the quality liqueur wines psr to which the products
referred to in point 2(b) of Part J of Annex V to Regu-
lation (EC) No 1493/1999 may be added. That
list
should be amended by reason of the accession of Cyprus.

Regulation (EC) No 1622/2000 should therefore be
amended accordingly.

For reasons of control and in order to provide for the
application of the amendments to Regulation (EC) No
1622/2000 as from the date of entry into force of the
the Czech Republic, Estonia,
Treaty of Accession of
Cyprus,
Poland,
Latvia,
Slovenia and Slovakia, the Regulation should apply as
from May 1 2004.

Lithuania, Hungary, Malta,

(5)

(6)

(7)

(8)

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 (EC) No 1622/2000 is amended as follows:

(4)

Some French table wines bearing a geographical
indi-
cation can have a total alcoholic strength by volume
greater than 15 % vol. and can consequently have a

1.

in Title II, Chapter I, the following Article 18a is added:

(1) OJ L 179, 14.7.1999, p. 1. Regulation as

(EC) No 1795/2003 (OJ

last amended by
L 262,

Commission Regulation
14.10.2003, p. 13).

(2) OJ L 194, 31.7.2000, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 1410/2003 (OJ L 201, 8.8.2003, p. 9).

‘Article 18a

Pouring of wine or grape must to lees or grape marc or
pressed aszú pulp

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The pouring of wine or grape must to lees or grape marc or
pressed aszú pulp, provided for in point 4(d) of Annex IV to
Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999, shall be carried out as
follows,
in accordance with the Hungarian provisions in
force on 1 May 2004:

(a)

the Tokaji fordítás shall be prepared by pouring must or
wine on the pressed aszú pulp;

— Vin de pays Portes de Méditerranée,

— Vin de pays des comtés rhodaniens,

— Vin de pays des côtes de Thongue,

— Vin de pays de la Côte Vermeille;’

(b) the Tokaji máslás shall be prepared by pouring must or

wine on the lees of szamorodni or aszú.’;

(b) point (g) is replaced by the following points (g) to (m):

2. Part A of Annex III is replaced by the text in the Annex to

this Regulation;

3. the first paragraph of Annex XII is amended as follows:

‘(g) for wines originating in Canada:

35 milliequivalents per litre for wines described by
the words “Icewine”;

(a)

in point (a), the following sixth and seventh indents are
added:

(h) for Hungarian wines:

‘— the quality wines psr described by the term “pozdní

sběr”,

— the quality wine psr described by the term “neskorý

zber”;’

(b) in point (b), the following indents are added:

‘— the quality wines psr described by the terms “výběr z
bobulí”, “výběr z cibéb”, “ledové víno” and “slámové
víno”,

— the quality wine psr described by the

terms
“bobuľový výber”, “hrozienkový výber” and “ľadový
výber”;’

(c)

the following point (c) is added:

‘(c) 350 mg/l for:

— the quality wines psr described by the term “výběr

z hroznů”,

— the quality wines psr described by the term “výber

z hrozna”;’

4. Annex XIII is amended as follows:

(a)

in the second subparagraph of point (b), the following
indents are added:

‘— Vin de pays du Jardin de la France, except for the
wines produced in the zone bearing the controlled
designation of origin and in the areas planted with
the variety Chenin,
in the departments Maine et
Loire and Indre et Loire,

25 milliequivalents per litre for the following quality
wines psr:

— Tokaji máslás,

— Tokaji fordítás,

— aszúbor,

— töppedt szőlőből készült bor,

— Tokaji szamorodni,

— késői szüretelésű bor,

— válogatott szüretelésű bor;

35 milliequivalents per litre for the following quality
wines psr:

— Tokaji aszú,

— Tokaji aszúeszencia,

— Tokaji eszencia;

(i)

for Czech wines:

30 milliequivalents per litre for quality wines psr
described by the words
and
“ledové víno”,

“výběr z bobulí”

35 milliequivalents per litre for quality wines psr
described by the words “slámové víno” and “výběr
z cibéb”;

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(j)

for Greek wines:

(m) for Slovenian wines:

30 milliequivalents per litre for the following quality
wines psr with a total alcoholic strength by volume
equal or higher than 13 % vol. and a residual sugar
content of at least 45 g/l:

— Samos (Σάμος),

— Rhodes (Ρόδος),

— Patras (Πάτρα),

— Rio Patron (Ρίο Πατρών),

— Cephalonie (Κεφαλονιά),

— Limnos (Λήμνος),

— Sitia (Σητεία),

— Santorini (Σαντορίνη),

— Nemea (Νεμέα),

— Daphnes (Δαφνές);

(k) for Cypriot wines:

25 milliequivalents per litre for the quality liqueur
wines psr “Κουμανδαρία” (Commandaria);

(l)

for Slovak wines:

25 milliequivalents per litre for the following quality
wines psr:

— tokajské samorodné,

35 milliequivalents per litre for:

— tokajský výber;

30 milliequivalents per litre for the following quality
wines psr:

— vrhunsko vino ZGP — jagodni izbor,

— vrhunsko vino ZGP — ledeno vino;

35 milliequivalents per litre for the following quality
wines psr:

— vrhunsko vino ZGP — suhi jagodni izbor.’;

5. In Annex XVIII, Part B is amended as follows:

(a)

in point 1, the following is added:

‘CYPRUS

Κουμανδαρία (Commandaria)’;

(b) in point 2, the following is added:

‘CYPRUS

Κουμανδαρία (Commandaria)’;

(c)

in point 4, the following is added:

‘CYPRUS

Κουμανδαρία (Commandaria)’;

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following
the European
that of
Union.

its publication in the Official

Journal of

It shall apply from 1 May 2004.

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

Done at Brussels, 9 August 2004.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER
Member of the Commission

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ANNEX

‘A. List of vine varieties grapes of which may be used to constitute the cuvée for preparing quality sparkling

wines of the aromatic type and quality sparkling wines psr of the aromatic type

(Article 4 of this Regulation)

Aleatico N

Ασύρτικο (Assyrtiko)

Bourboulenc B

Brachetto N

Clairette B

Colombard B

Csaba gyöngye B

Cserszegi fűszeres B

Freisa N

Gamay N

Gewürztraminer Rs

Girò N

Γλυκερίθρα (Glykerythra)

Huxelrebe

Irsai Olivér B

Macabeu B

All the malvoisies

Mauzac blanc and rosé

Monica N

Μοσχοφίλερο (Moschofilero)

Müller-Thurgau B

All the muscatels

Nektár

Pálava B

Parellada B

Perle B

Piquepoul B

Poulsard

Prosecco

Ροδίτης (Roditis)

Scheurebe

Torbato

Zefír B’