Commission Regulation (EC) No 927/2007 of 2 August 2007 on a transitional measure relating to the treatment of the by-products of winemaking provided for in Council Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 for the 2007/08 wine year in Romania
Date: 2007-08-02
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Romania, common organisation of markets, derogation from EU law, distillation, vinification, viticulture

L 202/10

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

3.8.2007

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 927/2007

of 2 August 2007

on a transitional measure relating to the treatment of the by-products of winemaking provided for
in Council Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 for the 2007/08 wine year in Romania

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(4)

Having regard to the Treaty of Accession of Bulgaria and
Romania,

Having regard to the Act of Accession of Bulgaria and Romania,
and in particular the first paragraph of Article 41 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Under Article 27(3) of Council Regulation (EC) No
1493/1999 of 17 May 1999 on the common organi-
sation of the market in wine (1), any natural or legal
person, or group of persons having made wine is
required to deliver for distillation all the by-products of
that winemaking. Since the accession of Romania to the
Community on 1 January 2007, that requirement also
applies to wine producers in that Member State although
the practice is not traditional in Romania.

Compliance with this requirement presumes that there
are distilleries ready to carry out distillation with the
support of Community financial assistance. While such
distilleries have developed in those Member States of the
Community as constituted at 31 December 2006,
in
which this requirement has existed for several years, as
yet no such industrial infrastructure for distillation exists
in Romania.

(3)

The alternative way of dealing with by-products is to
withdraw them under
as practised in
several Member States.

supervision,

and

that

requirement

Given that distillation cannot be carried out at present
for practical reasons, Romanian producers should be
a
exempted from the distillation requirement
for
specific period,
should be
replaced by a requirement to withdraw the by-products
under supervision in accordance with the conditions laid
down in Articles 50 and 51 of Commission Regulation
(EC) No 1623/2000 of 25 July 2000 laying down
detailed rules
implementing Regulation (EC) No
1493/1999 on the common organisation of the market
in wine with regard to market mechanisms (2).

for

(5)

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

for

the 2007/08 wine year natural or

By derogation from Article 27(3) of Regulation (EC) No
1493/1999,
legal
persons or groups of persons having processed grapes
harvested in Romania shall withdraw the by-products of such
processing under
supervision and in accordance with the
conditions laid down in Articles 50 and 51 of Regulation
(EC) No 1623/2000.

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, 2 August 2007.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 179, 14.7.1999, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

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

lation (EC) No 1791/2006 (OJ L 363, 20.12.2006, p. 1).

lation (EC) No 2016/2006 (OJ L 384, 29.12.2006, p. 38).