Council Regulation (EC) No 2165/2005 of  20 December 2005  amending Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 on the common organisation of the market in wine
Date: 2005-12-20
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: common organisation of markets, designation of origin, labelling, product quality, viticulture, wine

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(Acts whose publication is obligatory)

COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 2165/2005

of 20 December 2005

amending Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 on the common organisation of the market in wine

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

adapt it as a consequence through the introduction of
new descriptions of those wine-growing areas.

Having regard to the Treaty
Community, and in particular Article 37 thereof,

establishing the European

(4)

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament,

Having regard to the opinion of the European Economic and
Social Committee,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Article 27 of Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 (1) prohibits
the overpressing of grapes and the pressing of wine lees
to guard against poor quality wine, and to this end
stipulates the obligation to distil marc and lees. Since
the production and marketing facilities in the wine-
growing areas of Slovenia and Slovakia enable the
objectives of this provision to be met, the obligation
for producers in these regions to distil by-products of
wine-making should be replaced with the obligation to
withdraw such by-products under supervision.

Under Article 1(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999, the
decision would be taken upon accession whether to
classify Poland in wine-growing region A in Annex III
to the above Regulation which classifies the areas planted
with vines in Member States into wine-growing zones.
The Polish authorities have provided the Commission
with information on the areas of vines planted in
Poland and their geographical position, which shows
that
these wine-growing areas could be classed as
zone A.

(3)

Following recent simplification of
the
Czech Republic’s wine-growing areas which are classified
in zones A and B of the said Annex III, it is necessary to

the division of

(5)

(6)

Annex IV to Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 establishes a
list of authorised oenological practices and processes for
wine production. Several oenological practices
and
processes not contained in this Annex have been
authorised on an experimental basis by some Member
States under the conditions set out in Commission Regu-
lation (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 (2). The results obtained suggest that these
practices and processes were beneficial to improving the
management of wine production and the conservation of
these products, whilst posing no health risks
to
consumers. The International Organisation of Vine and
Wine has already recognised and authorised these experi-
mental practices carried out in Member States. Therefore
such oenological practices and processes should be defi-
nitively authorised at Community level.

Annex VI.D.1 to Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999
provides that quality wines psr may be produced only
from grapes of wine varieties which appear on the list of
the Member State of production and are harvested within
the specified region. However, point D.2 of that Annex
provides that, until 31 August 2005 at the latest, in the
case of a traditional practice governed by special
that
provisions of
Member State may permit on certain conditions, by
means of express authorisations and subject to suitable
controls, that a quality sparkling wine psr be obtained by
adding to the basic product from which the wine is made
one or more wine-sector products which do not originate
in the specified region whose name the wine bears.

the Member State of production,

Italy has applied this derogation for the preparation of
quality sparkling wines psr ‘Conegliano-Valdobbiadene’
and ‘Montello e Colli Asolani’.
In order to adapt the
the
structural
of
aspects
traditional method
this derogation should be
producing such wines,
extended until 31 December 2007.

of

(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

(EC) No 1163/2005 (OJ

last amended by
L 188,

Commission Regulation
20.7.2005, p. 3).

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(7)

(8)

(9)

to Regulation (EC) No
By virtue of Annex III.1(c)
1493/1999,
the wine-growing areas of Denmark and
Sweden form part of wine-growing zone A. These two
Member States are now able to produce table wine with
‘Lantvin’ and
indication. Accordingly,
a geographical
‘Regional vin’ should be added to Annex VII.A.2.

The derogations provided for
in Annex VII.D.1 and
Annex VIII.F(a), allowing the information on the label
to be given in one or more of the official languages of
the Community, should apply to Cyprus.

Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 should therefore be
amended accordingly,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

‘7.
Any natural or legal persons or groups of persons who
process grapes harvested in wine-growing zone A or in the
German part of wine-growing zone B, or on areas planted
with vines in the Czech Republic, Malta, Austria, Slovenia or
Slovakia shall be required to withdraw the by-products of
such processing under supervision and subject to conditions
to be determined.’;

2. Annexes III, IV, VI, VII and VIII are amended as set out in

the Annex.

Article 2

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

Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 is hereby amended as follows:

1.

in Article 27, paragraph 7 is replaced by the following:

However, point 3 of the Annex shall apply from 1 September
2005.

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

Done at Brussels, 20 December 2005.

For the Council
The President

M. BECKETT

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The Annexes to Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 are amended as follows:

ANNEX

1. Annex III is amended as follows:

(a) point 1 is amended as follows:

— point (c) is replaced by:

‘(c) in Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden and the United Kingdom: the wine-growing

areas of these countries;’

— point (d) is replaced by:

‘(d) in the Czech Republic: the wine growing region of Čechy.’;

(b) point 2(d) is replaced by:

‘(d) in the Czech Republic: the wine-growing region of Morava and the areas under vines not included in point

1(d);’

2. Annex IV is amended as follows:

(a) point 1 is amended as follows:

— point (i) is replaced by the following:

‘(i) treatment of must and new wine still in fermentation with charcoal for oenological use, within certain

limits;’

— in point (j), the following indent is inserted after the first indent:

‘— plant proteins,’;

— the following point is added:

‘(s) addition of L-ascorbic acid up to certain limits.’;

(b) point 3 is amended as follows:

— in point (m), the following indent is inserted after the first indent:

‘— plant proteins,’;

— the following points are added:

‘(zc) the addition of dimethyldicarbonate (DMDC) to wine for microbiological stabilisation, within certain

limits and under conditions to be determined;

(zd) the addition of yeast mannoproteins to ensure the tartaric and protein stabilisation of wines.’;

(c)

in point 4, the following point is added:

‘(e) usage of pieces of oak wood in winemaking.’;

3.

in Annex VI point D.2, first indent, the date ‘31 August 2005’ is replaced by the date ‘31 December 2007’;

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4. Annex VII is amended as follows:

(a)

in point A.2b, the third indent is replaced by:

‘— one of the following wordings under conditions to be determined: “Vino de la tierra”, “οίνος τοπικός”, “zemské
víno”, “regional vin”, “Landwein”, “ονομασία κατά παράδοση”, “regional wine”, “vin de pays”, “indicazione
geografica tipica”,
“deželno vino
PGO”, “deželno vino s priznano geografsko oznako”, “geograafilise tähistusega lauavein”, “lantvin”. Where
such a term is used, the words “table wine” is not required;’

lokalità tradizzjonali,”, “landwijn”,

“vinho regional”,

“inbid ta’

“tájbor”,

(b) in point D.1, the third subparagraph is replaced by the following:

‘The information referred to in the second subparagraph may be repeated in one or more official languages of the
Community for products originating in Greece and Cyprus.’;

5.

in Annex VIII point F, point (a) is replaced by:

‘(a)

the following information shall be provided only in the official language of the Member State in whose territory
production took place:

— in the case of quality sparkling wines psr, the name of the specified region as referred to in point B.4, second

indent;

— for quality sparkling wines psr or for quality sparkling wines, the name of another geographical area as

referred to in point E.1.

The names of the products specified in the first and second indents produced in Greece and in Cyprus may be
repeated in one or more other official languages of the Community;’.