Commission Regulation (EC) No 1109/2006 of  19 July 2006  derogating for the 2005/06 marketing year from Regulation (EC) No 1623/2000 as regards the final dates for delivering wine to distilleries and its distillation
Date: 2006-07-19
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: common organisation of markets, delivery, derogation from EU law, distillation, viticulture, wine

20.7.2006

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 198/3

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1109/2006

of 19 July 2006

derogating for the 2005/06 marketing year from Regulation (EC) No 1623/2000 as regards the final
dates for delivering wine to distilleries and its distillation

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

(3)

(4)

To resolve the problem, the date by which wine must be
delivered for distillation and the date by which wine
must be distilled should be put back by two weeks.

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

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

II

In the context of the distillation of wine into potable
alcohol as provided for by Article 29 of Regulation
(EC) No 1493/1999 and opened each wine year under
Chapter
(EC) No
of Commission Regulation
1623/2000 of 25 July 2000 laying down detailed rules
for implementing Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 on the
common organisation of the market in wine with regard
to market mechanisms (2), producers are required to
deliver their wine to a distillery and the distillers must
in turn distil that wine before specific dates.

Because of
the opening of several crisis distillations
the 2004/05 wine year and the
towards the end of
significant volumes of wine covered by contracts for
the distillation of potable alcohol,
the distilleries in
some Member States do not have enough capacity to
accept the wine involved and distil
it by the deadlines
laid down in Regulation (EC) No 1623/2000.

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Notwithstanding the first subparagraph of Article 63a(8) of
Regulation (EC) No 1623/2000, for the 2005/06 wine year
the volumes of wine covered by contract may be delivered to
distilleries up to 31 July of that wine year.

Notwithstanding the first subparagraph of Article 63a(10) of
Regulation (EC) No 1623/2000, for the 2005/06 wine year
the wine delivered to a distillery must be distilled no later
than 15 October of the following wine year.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third 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 2006.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

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

(EC) No 2165/2005 (OJ

last amended by
L 345,

Commission Regulation
28.12.2005, p. 1).

(2) OJ L 194, 31.7.2000, p. 45. Regulation as last amended by
L 293,

(EC) No 1820/2005 (OJ

Commission Regulation
9.11.2005, p. 8).