Commission Regulation (EC) No 643/2006 of  27 April 2006  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, and Regulation (EC) No 884/2001 laying down detailed rules of application concerning the documents accompanying the carriage of wine products and the records to be kept in the wine sector
Date: 2006-04-27
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: common organisation of markets, vinification, viticulture

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 643/2006

of 27 April 2006

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
establishing a Community code of oenological practices and processes, and Regulation (EC) No
884/2001 laying down detailed rules of application concerning the documents accompanying the
carriage of wine products and the records to be kept in the wine sector

the market

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Article 1

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

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(1) and Article 70(3)
thereof,

the market

1. The following Article 15a is inserted:

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

substances

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1622/2000 (2)
lays
down restrictions on and certain conditions for the use
of
authorised by Regulation (EC) No
1493/1999. The restrictions on the use of the substances
referred to are listed in Annex IV thereto. As a result of
the addition of L-ascorbic acid and dimethyldicarbonate
to the list of authorised oenological practices in Annex
IV to Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999, restrictions on and
conditions for the use of those substances should be laid
down.

Commission Regulation (EC) No 884/2001 (3) lays down
rules on the keeping of inwards and outwards registers
and provides in particular for the indication of certain
operations in the records. The particular characteristics of
the addition of dimethyldicarbonate to wine require its
use to be indicated in the records.

Regulations (EC) No 1622/2000 and (EC) No 884/2001
should be amended accordingly.

‘Article 15a

Dimethyldicarbonate

The addition of dimethyldicarbonate provided for in point
(zc) of paragraph 3 of Annex IV to Regulation (EC) No
1493/1999 may be carried out only within the limits laid
down in Annex IV to this Regulation and where it meets the
requirements of Annex IXa to this Regulation.’

2. Annex IV is replaced by Annex I to this Regulation.

3. Annex II to this Regulation is inserted as Annex IXa.

Article 2

The following indent
Article 14(1) of Regulation (EC) No 884/2001:

is added to the first subparagraph of

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of
the Management
Committee for Wine,

‘— addition of dimethyldicarbonate (DMDC) to wine’.

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

last amended by

Regulation (EC) No 2165/2005 (OJ L 345, 28.12.2005, p. 1).

(2) OJ L 194, 31.7.2000, p. 1. Regulation as

last amended by

Regulation (EC) No 1163/2005 (OJ L 188, 20.7.2005, p. 3).

(3) OJ L 128, 10.5.2001, p. 32. Regulation as last amended by

Regulation (EC) No 908/2004 (OJ L 163, 30.4.2004, p. 56).

Article 3

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

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

Done at Brussels, 27 April 2006.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

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ANNEX I

‘ANNEX IV

Restrictions on the use of certain substances

(Article 5 of this Regulation)

The maximum limits applying to the use of the substances referred to in Annex IV to Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 in
accordance with the conditions laid down therein are as follows:

Substances

Use with fresh grapes, grape must, grape
must in fermentation, grape must in
fermentation obtained from raisined
grapes, concentrated grape must and new
wine still in fermentation

Use with grape must in fermentation
intended for direct human consumption as
such, wine suitable for producing table
wine, table wine, sparkling wine, aerated
sparkling wine, semi-sparkling wine,
aerated semi-sparkling wine, liqueur wine
and quality wines psr

Preparations of yeast cell wall

40 g/hl

40 g/hl

Carbon dioxide

L-ascorbic acid

250 mg/l

Citric acid

Metatartaric acid

Copper sulphate

maximum content
treated: 2 g/l

in wine

thus

the maximum content

250 mg/l;
in
wine thus treated must not exceed
250 mg/l

maximum content
treated: 1 g/l

in wine

thus

100 mg/l

1 g/hl provided the copper content of
the product
treated does not
exceed 1 mg/l

thus

Charcoal for oenological use

100 g dry weight per hl

100 g dry weight per hl

Nutritive salts: diammonium phosphate
or ammonium sulphate

1 g/l (expressed in salt) (*)

0,3 g/l
(expressed in salt)
preparation of sparkling wine

for

the

Ammonium sulphite or ammonium
bisulphite

0,2 g/l (expressed in salt) (*)

Growth factors: thiamine in the form
of thiamine hydrochloride

0,6 mg/l (expressed in thiamine)

0,6 mg/l
(expressed in thiamine)
the preparation of sparkling wine

for

Polyvinylpolypyrrolidone

80 g/hl

Calcium tartrate

Calcium phytate

Lysozyme

Dimethyldicarbonate

500 mg/l (**)

500 mg/l (**)

200 mg/l; residues not detectable in
the wine placed on the market

(*) These products may also be used in combination, up to an overall limit of 1 g/l, without prejudice to the 0,2 g/l limit set above.
(**) Where added to both the must and the wine, the total quantity must not exceed the limit of 500 mg/l.’

80 g/hl

200 g/hl

8 g/hl

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ANNEX II

‘ANNEX IXa

Requirements for dimethyldicarbonate

(Article 15a of this Regulation)

AREA OF APPLICATION

Dimethyldicarbonate may be added to wine for the following purpose: microbiological stabilisation of bottled wine
containing fermentable sugar.

REQUIREMENTS
— Addition must be carried out only a short time prior to bottling.
— The treatment may only be applied to wine with a sugar content of not less than 5 g/l.
— The maximum dose is fixed in Annex IV to this Regulation and the product may not be detectable in the wine placed

on the market.

— The product used must comply with the purity criteria laid down in Directive 96/77/EC.
— This treatment is to be recorded in the register referred to in Article 70(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999.’