Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/28 of 30 October 2024 amending Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/33 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards applications for protection of designations of origin, geographical indications and traditional terms in the wine sector, the objection procedure, restrictions of use, amendments to product specifications, cancellation of protection, and labelling and presentation
Date: 2024-10-30
Institutions: Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development, European Commission
Subjects: consumer information, designation of origin, labelling, product designation, quality control of agricultural products, viticulture, wine




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2025/28


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            COMMISSION DELEGATED REGULATION (EU) 2025/28
of 30 October 2024
         
amending Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/33 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards applications for protection of designations of origin, geographical indications and traditional terms in the wine sector, the objection procedure, restrictions of use, amendments to product specifications, cancellation of protection, and labelling and presentation


THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,


Having regard to Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 establishing a common organisation of the markets in agricultural products and repealing Council Regulations (EEC) No 922/72, (EEC) No 234/79, (EC) No 1037/2001 and (EC) No 1234/2007 (1), and in particular Article 109 thereof,

Whereas:







(1)


Regulation (EU) 2024/1143 of the European Parliament and of the Council (2) establishes one common Union framework for the registration and protection of geographical indications in three agricultural sectors (wine, spirit drinks and agricultural products). To this purpose, that Regulation amends or repeals, to the extent necessary, Regulations, which previously provided for separate frameworks in those sectors: Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 has been amended as regards geographical indication in the wine sector, Regulation (EU) 2019/787 of the European Parliament and of the Council (3) has been amended as regards geographical indications in the spirit drinks sector, and Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council (4), concerning geographical indications in the agricultural products and foodstuffs sector, has been repealed.












(2)


Regulation (EU) 2024/1143 empowers the Commission to adopt delegated and implementing acts setting out uniform procedure for the registration of geographical indications for the agricultural sectors of wine, spirit drinks and agricultural products. As a result, delegated and implementing acts previously adopted on the basis of the empowerments provided for in the sectoral regulations have to be amended or repealed, to the extent necessary to bring them in conformity with Regulation (EU) 2024/1143 and its secondary legislation.












(3)


Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/33 (5) supplements Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013, among others, as regards applications for protection of designations of origin and geographical indications, the objection procedure, restrictions of use, amendments to product specifications, cancellation of protection, and labelling and presentation. In the new Union framework for geographical indications established by Regulation (EU) 2024/1143, covering three agricultural sectors (wine, spirit drinks and agricultural products), the rules included in Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/33 are replaced partly by certain provisions included in Regulation (EU) 2024/1143 and partly by the provisions included in Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/27 (6), that supplements Regulation (EU) 2024/1143 with the rules, among others, concerning the procedures for oppositions, Union amendments and approval and communication of standard and temporary amendments. Therefore, as regards the wine sector, certain provisions of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/33 should be deleted, because they would be in conflict with the provisions adopted in Regulation (EU) 2024/1143 or in Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/27, which also apply to the wine sector.












(4)


However, the provisions of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/33 concerning the language of the registered name, the justification of the requirement for packaging the wine within the geographical area, including bottling, the derogations concerning production in the demarcated geographical area and the derogations from the obligation to use the term ‘protected designation of origin’ in labelling, in Articles 2(1), 4(2), 5 and 23 of that Delegated Regulation, respectively, should be maintained because they are essential to the system while they have neither been included in Regulation (EU) 2024/1143 nor they may be part of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/27 on the basis of the empowerments of Regulation (EU) 2024/1143.












(5)


Provisions of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/33 that do not concern the geographical indications should also be maintained.












(6)


Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/33 should therefore be amended accordingly,





HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:



Article 1
Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/33 is amended as follows:






(1)


the title is replaced by the following:

                              ‘Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/33 of 17 October 2018 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards applications for protection and labelling of designations of origin and geographical indications, applications for protection, the objection procedure, modification and cancellation of traditional terms and labelling and presentation in the wine sector’;










(2)


Article 1 is replaced by the following:

‘Article 1
Subject matter
This Regulation lays down rules supplementing Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 concerning:






(a)


as regards protected designations of origin and protected geographical indications in the wine sector:






(i)


name to be protected;










(ii)


additional requirements for product specifications;










(iii)


derogations concerning production in the demarcated geographical area;










(iv)


derogations from the obligation to use ‘indications’ on labels;














(b)


as regards traditional terms in the wine sector:






(i)


applications for protection;










(ii)


the objection procedure;










(iii)


modifications;










(iv)


cancellation;














(c)


as regards the wine sector in general: labelling and presentation.’




;









(3)


Article 2(2), Article 3, Article 4(1), and Articles 7 to 21 are deleted;










(4)


Article 59 is replaced by the following:

‘Article 59
Procedural language
All documents and information sent to the Commission in respect of the matters provided for in this Regulation shall be in one of the official languages of the Union or accompanied by a certified translation into one of those languages.’.







Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following that of 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, 30 October 2024.


For the Commission


The President

Ursula VON DER LEYEN
            





(1)  
            OJ L 347, 20.12.2013, p. 671, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2013/1308/oj.

(2)  Regulation (EU) 2024/1143 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 April 2024 on geographical indications for wine, spirit drinks and agricultural products, as well as traditional specialities guaranteed and optional quality terms for agricultural products, amending Regulations (EU) No 1308/2013, (EU) 2019/787 and (EU) 2019/1753 and repealing Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 (OJ L, 2024/1143, 23.4.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1143/oj).

(3)  Regulation (EU) 2019/787 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 April 2019 on the definition, description, presentation and labelling of spirit drinks, the use of the names of spirit drinks in the presentation and labelling of other foodstuffs, the protection of geographical indications for spirit drinks, the use of ethyl alcohol and distillates of agricultural origin in alcoholic beverages, and repealing Regulation (EC) No 110/2008 (OJ L 130, 17.5.2019, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2019/787/oj).

(4)  Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 November 2012 on quality schemes for agricultural products and foodstuffs (OJ L 343, 14.12.2012, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2012/1151/oj).

(5)  Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/33 of 17 October 2018 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards applications for protection of designations of origin, geographical indications and traditional terms in the wine sector, the objection procedure, restrictions of use, amendments to product specifications, cancellation of protection, and labelling and presentation (OJ L 9, 11.1.2019, p. 2, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_del/2019/33/oj).

(6)  Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/27 of 30 October 2024 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2024/1143 of the European Parliament and of the Council with rules concerning the registration and the protection of geographical indications, traditional specialities guaranteed and optional quality terms and repealing Delegated Regulation (EU) No 664/2014 (OJ L, 2025/27, 15.1.2025, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_del/2025/27/oj).


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_del/2025/28/oj
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