Commission Regulation (EC) No 1163/2005 of 19 July 2005 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: 2005-07-19
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: common organisation of markets, vinification, viticulture

20.7.2005

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 188/3

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1163/2005

of 19 July 2005

amending Regulation (EC) No 1622/2000 laying down certain detailed rules for implementing
in wine and
Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 on the common organisation of

the market

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
in
May 1999 on the common organisation of
wine (1), and in particular Article 46(3) thereof,

the market

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Article 44(2) of Commission Regulation (EC) No
1622/2000 (2) provides for the abandonment,
from 1
August 2005, of a number of usual analysis methods
described in Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2676/90
of 17 September 1990 determining Community methods
for the analysis of wines (3).

Following the validation of some of those methods in
accordance with internationally recognised criteria, they
have now been recognised as reference methods and
described as such in Regulation (EEC) No 2676/90.

Furthermore, certain simplified methods described in
Regulation (EEC) No 2676/90 allow those components
that are most meaningful in terms of wine controls, in
particular
and some other
substances present in wine, to be determined quickly
and with sufficient certainty. To ensure that analysis

sulphur dioxide,

sugars

in the Community

procedures
descriptions of
stand in Regulation (EEC) No 2676/90.

the
those methods must be allowed to

uniform,

are

(4)

(5)

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

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

Article 44(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1622/2000 is hereby
replaced by the following:

‘2.
Regulation (EEC) No 2676/90 shall apply to products
covered by Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999. Chapters 12(3),
18(3), 23(3), 25(3) and 37(3) and (4) of the Annex to Regu-
lation (EEC) No 2676/90 are hereby deleted from 1 August
2005.’

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh day
following 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, 19 July 2005.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

(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 1428/2004 (OJ L 263, 10.8.2004, p. 7).

(3) OJ L 272, 3.10.1990, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 355/2005 (OJ L 56, 2.3.2005, p. 3).