CELEX: 51980PC0767
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Date: 1980-11-26
Title: Second amendment to the proposal for a Council Regulation amending for the second time Regulation (EEC) No 355/79 laying down general rules for the description and presentation of wines and grape musts (submitted by the Commission to the Council pursuant to the second paragraph of Article 149 of the EEC Treaty)

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                                            COM(80)767 final
                                            Brussels . 26 November 1980
         Second amendment to the proposal for a Council Regulation
 amending for the second time Regulation ( EEC ) No 355 / 79 laying down general
 rules for the description and presentation of wines and grape musts
 ( submitted by the Commission to the Council pursuant to the second para­
   graph of Article 149 of the EEC Treaty )
 ---pagebreak---                            EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
On 18 July I98O "the Commission forwarded to the Council a proposal
for a Council .Regulation amending for the second time Regulation (EEC )
No 355/79 laying. down general rules for the description and presentation
of wines and grape musts ( COM ( 8o)437 final ).  This proposal was
 supplemented at a later date on the "basis of the second paragraph of
Article 149 of the EEC Treaty ( C0M(80)550 final).'             .
By its telex of 22 Ootober I98O , Italy requested a one-year
postponement of the date specified in Article 4(3 ) of the said Regulation ,
which permits the use , during a transitional period expiring on
 31 August 1981 , of certain names of wine-growing regions to describe
"both table wines and quality wines produced in specified regions .
A second amendment has thus proved necessary to the above mentioned
proposal "by virtue of the second paragraph of Article 149 of the EEC
Treaty .   This is also an opportunity to make a samll number of
additions to the proposal with a view to facilitating trade between
the Community and the United States of America .
                    1
 Adoption of these amendments does not entail any expenditure
 chargeable to the Community Budget .
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Second amendment to the proposal for a Council Regulation amending for
the second time Regulation ( EEC ) Ho 355/79 laying down general rules
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for the description and presentation of wines and grape musts
( submitted by the Commission to the Council pursuant to the second
paragraph of Article 149 of "the Treaty )
I.   Amendments to the recitals :
The following recitals are added :
Whereas , in order to provide the consumer with better information on
the nature of a wine or grape must , provision should he made bo that
analytical data other than the alcoholio strength may "be shown on the
labelling ;
Whereas it is permitted to use , during a transitional period expiring
on 31 August 198lt certain names of wine-growing regions to describe
both table wines and quality wines p.s.rf                whereas this period has
proved too short to allow time for the necessary adaptations to be made
to the relevant national rules ; whereas the date should therefore be
postponed by one year ;
Whereas^to take account of commercial practice in the Community and
in certain non-member countries , it has proved necessary to allow the
number of the container or the number of the lot to be shown on the
labelling of a quality wine p.s.r . or an imported wine the description of
which includes geographioal particulars ;
II .   Additions to the Articles
1.   The following rtiole is inserted after Artiole 2i
     " Article 2a
     1 . Articles 2(2 ) ( f ) 12(2 ) ( g ) , 27(2 ) ( d ) ' and 28(2')(f ) are replaced
          respectively by the following :
   C0M(80)43? final , forward-id to the Council for 23 July 1980 .
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    " the act UP 1 and/or total alcoholic strength "by volume arid ether
      analytical d^ta , in so far as such information is governed "by
      implementing rules ."
2.    The following subparagraph is added to               . of Article 22(2 ) s
    "( d ) analytical data other than the particulars specified in
      subparagraph 1(b ), in so far as such information ds provided
      for in implementing rules ."
3»    The following sentence is added to Article 29(2 ):
    " In addition to the particulars specified in subparagraph 'l(b ),
      the description may also include other analytical data , in so far
      as such information is provided for in implementing rules ."
2 . The following Article is inserted after Article 3 ?
    " Article 3a
     The date " 31 August I98I"               . in the second subparagraph of
      Article 4(3 ) is replaced "by             > '31 August 1982' ."
3.    The following Article is inserted after Article 4 *
    " Article 4a
      1.                 Article 12(2)(s ) is replaced "by the following :
       '(s ) the number of the container or the number of the lot 5'
      2 . The following is added to                   Article 28(2 ) J
       ' ( r ) the number of the oontainer or the number of the lot' ."