Commission Regulation (EC) No 1472/2007 of 13 December 2007 derogating, for the 2007/08 wine year, from 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: 2007-12-13
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: agricultural by-product, common organisation of markets, delivery, distillation, vinification, viticulture

L 329/12

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

14.12.2007

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1472/2007

of 13 December 2007

derogating, for the 2007/08 wine year, from 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,

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,

(4)

(5)

In order that this exception may be applied to the entire
wine year, this Regulation should apply from 1 August
2007.

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

Whereas:

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Under Article 27(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999
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.

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1623/2000 (2)
lays
down detailed rules for the implementation of this obli-
gation to distil and Article 49 thereof provides for certain
possible exemptions,
the possibility of
replacing the distillation obligation by withdrawal of
the by-products under supervision in the case of small
producers who produce less than 80 hl per year.

in particular

The by-product collection capacity in some Member
situation,
insufficient. To remedy this
States
the
is
Member States
authorised to
should therefore be
exempt other categories of producers from the obligation
to distil by-products of winemaking.

Article 1

By way of exemption from Article 49(4)(a) of Regulation (EC)
No 1623/2000, for the 2007/08 wine year Member States may
lay down, for all or part of their territory, that producers who
do not exceed a production level of 100 hl obtained by them
on their individual premises may fulfil the obligation to deliver
by-products for distillation by having those products withdrawn
under supervision.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publi-
cation in the Official Journal of the European Union.

It shall apply from 1 August 2007.

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

Done at Brussels, 13 December 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-

lation (EC) No 1234/2007 (OJ L 299, 16.11.2007, p. 1).

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

lation (EC) No 923/2007 (OJ L 201, 2.8.2007, p. 9).