Commission Regulation (EC) No 1219/2005 of 28 July 2005 amending Regulation (EC) No 1623/2000 laying down detailed rules for implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 on the common organisation of the market in wine with regard to market mechanisms
Date: 2005-07-28
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: common organisation of markets, vinification, viticulture

29.7.2005

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1219/2005

of 28 July 2005

amending Regulation (EC) No 1623/2000 laying down detailed rules for implementing Council
Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 on the common organisation of the market in wine with regard
to market mechanisms

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(4)

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 the market in
wine (1), and in particular Articles 33 and 36 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

the

a derogation under

of Commission Regulation

(EC) No
Article
13
1623/2000 (2) grants
aid
scheme for grape must used to enrich wine for musts
from wine-growing zones other than CIII, which is due
to expire at the end of the 2004/05 wine year. Pending a
more radical change to the aid scheme in the context of
the planned reform of the common organisation of the
market in wine, this derogation should be extended until
the end of the 2006/07 wine year.

Articles 45, 59 and 61 of Regulation (EC) No
1623/2000 set certain dates for the distillation of the
by-products of winemaking. In view of the very large
harvest in 2004/05, certain Member States are experi-
encing practical difficulties in completing the distillation
by the deadlines laid down. Those deadlines should
therefore be extended.

Article 52 of Regulation (EC) No 1623/2000 provides
for a derogation from the distillation arrangements for
wine obtained from grapes of varieties classified as both
wine-grape varieties and varieties for the production of
spirits distilled from wine with a designation of origin for
the 2001/02 to 2004/05 wine years. Pending a more
radical change to these arrangements in the context of
the planned reform of the common organisation of the
market in wine, this derogation should be extended until
the end of the 2006/07 wine year.

63a

(EC) No

of Regulation

Article
1623/2000
concerning the distillation of wine into potable alcohol
fixes a percentage of production which producers may
offer for this type of distillation. That percentage should
be fixed for the 2005/06 wine year.

(5)

Regulation (EC) No 1623/2000 should therefore be
amended accordingly.

(6)

Since the new wine year begins on 1 August 2005, this
Regulation should apply from that date.

(7)

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 1623/2000 is hereby amended as follows:

1. In the second subparagraph of Article 13(1), ‘for wine years
2003/04 to 2004/05’ is replaced by ‘for wine years 2003/04
to 2006/07’.

2. In Article 45(1), the following subparagraph is added:

‘As an exception to the first subparagraph, for the 2004/05
wine year the date referred to therein shall be postponed to
31 August of the following wine year.’

(1) OJ L 179, 14.7.1999 p. 1. Regulation last amended by Commission
Regulation (EC) No 1795/2003 (OJ L 262, 14.10.2003, p. 13).
(2) OJ L 194, 31.7.2000, p. 45. Regulation last amended by Regulation

(EC) No 616/2005 (OJ L 103, 22.4.2005, p. 15).

3. In the fourth subparagraph of Article 52(1), ‘for wine years
2001/02 to 2004/05’ is replaced by ‘for wine years 2001/02
to 2006/07’.

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4. In Article 59, the following paragraph is added:

6. The last sentence of the first subparagraph of Article 63a(2)

is replaced by the following:

‘As an exception to the first subparagraph, for the 2004/05
wine year the date referred to therein shall be postponed to
15 September of the following wine year.’

‘For the 2004/05 and 2005/06 wine years, that percentage
shall be 25 %.’

Article 2

5. In Article 61(3), the following subparagraph is added:

‘However, for the 2004/05 wine year the date referred to in
the first subparagraph shall be postponed to 15 September
of the following wine year.’

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 August 2005.

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

Done at Brussels, 28 July 2005.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission