CELEX: 31974R2894
Language: en
Date: 1974-11-18 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2894/74 of the Council of 18 November 1974 supplementing Regulation (EEC) No 817/70 as regards in particular quality sparkling wines produced in specified regions

21 . 1L 74                              Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 310/7
                                REGULATION (EEC) No 2894/74 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                     of 18 November 1974
              supplementing Regulation (EEC) No 817/70 as regards in particular quality spar­
                                        kling wines produced in specified regions
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                        HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
COMMUNITIES,
                                                                                             Article 1
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community, and in particular Article 43                   The following subparagraph shall be added to Article
thereof ;                                                          1 of Regulation (EEC) No 817/70 :
                                                                        '"Quality sparkling wines produced in specified
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;                     regions" (hereinafter called "quality sparkling
                                                                        wines psr") shall mean quality wines psr which
Having regard to the Opinion of the European Parlia­                    satisfy the definition in item 12 of Annex II to
ment (J) ;                                                              Regulation (EEC) No 816/70 and in Title I of
                                                                        Regulation (EEC) No 2893/74 and satisfy the provi­
Having regard to the Opinion of the Economic and                        sions of the present Regulation.'
Social Committee ;
                                                                                             Article 2
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 2893/74 (2) of
18 November 1974 on sparkling wines produced in                    The following subparagraph shall be added to Article
the Community and defined in item 12 of Annex II                   3 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 817/70 :
to Regulation (EEC) No 816/70, lays down rules on                       'Quality sparkling wines psr of the aromatic type
the preparation and marketing of such products ;                        may be obtained only from the varieties of vine
whereas the Regulation referred to confines itself, as                  listed in the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No
regards quality sparkling wines produced in specified                   2893/74 provided the latter are acknowledged as
regions — hereinafter referred to as quality sparkling                  suitable for yielding quality wines psr in the speci­
wines psr — to laying down provisions of a general                      fied region whose name they bear.'
nature applicable to all the products referred to
above ; whereas special rules applicable to quality spar­
kling wines psr should be incorporated in Council                                            Article 3
Regulation (EEC) No 8 1 7/70 (3) of 28 April 1970
laying down special provisions relating to quality                 The following subparagraphs shall be substituted for
wines produced in specified regions, as last amended               the second subparagraph of Article 5 (2) of Regulation
by Regulation (EEC) No 2680/72 (4), since these wines              (EEC) No 817/70 :
are sparkling quality wines psr ;                                       'The preparation of a quality sparkling wine psr
                                                                        shall take place only within the specified region
Whereas for this reason Regulation (EEC) No 817/70                      referred to in the preceding subparagraph .
is already applicable ; whereas in view of the special
requirements to be met by quality sparkling wines                       However, the operations referred to in the fore­
produced in specified regions, it is essential that the                 going subparagraphs may take place outside the
Regulation be supplemented by adequate provisions                       specified region, where :
which take into account the rules laid down for other                   (a) the rules of the Member State in whose terri­
sparkling wines in Regulation (EEC) No 2893/74 ;                             tory the grapes were harvested permit, and
                                                                        (b) production is supervised.'
Whereas these additional rules refer in particular to
the specific conditions of preparing quality sparkling
wines psr and their packaging ; whereas in defining                                          Article 4
these rules the same principles must be adopted as
was the case for Regulation (EEC) No 817/70, whilst                1.      Article 7 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 817/70
respecting the specific characteristics of the products            shall be reworded as follows :
concerned ,
                                                                        'The specific wine-making and preparation
                                                                        methods used for obtaining quality wines psr and
(>) OJ  No C 78 , 2. 8 . 1971 , p. 76 .                                 quality sparkling wines psr shall be defined for
(2) See page 1 of this Official Journal .
(3) OJ  No L 99, 5 . 5. 1970 , p. 20 .                                  each of those wines by each producer Member
(4) OJ  No L 289 , 27. 12. 1972, p. 1 .                                 State concerned .'
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2. The following paragraphs shall be subsituted for               —- grape musts,
Article 7 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 817/70 :                     — grape musts still in fermentation,
    '3 . Article 5 of Regulation (EEC) No 2893/74                 — wines,
    shall apply as regards the enrichment of cuvees               — quality wines psr,
    intended for the preparation of quality sparkling
    wines psr.                                                    suitable for yielding the same quality sparkling
    4. The total alcoholic strength of quality wines              wines psr as that to which the drawn-off liquid is
                                                                  added .
    psr shall be not less than 9° . However, for certain
    white quality wines psr that have been subject to             2. Notwithstanding the provisions of item 12 of
    no    enrichment    the   minimum      total alcoholic
                                                                  Annex II to Regulation (EEC) No 816/70, quality
    strength shall be 8-5° .                                      sparkling wines psr when kept at a temperature of
    The actual alcoholic strength of quality sparkling            20° C in closed containers, shall have a minimum
    wines psr, including the alcohol contained in any             overpressure of 3-5 atmospheres.
    dose added, shall be not less that 10° . However,
     for quality sparkling wines psr of the aromatic              However, for quality sparkling wines psr kept in
                                                                  containers of capacity of less than 25 cc and for
     type, the minimum actual alcoholic strength shall
    be 6° .                                                       quality sparkling wines psr of the aromatic type
                                                                  the minimum overpressure shall be 3 atmos­
     5. The total alcoholic strength of cuvees                    pheres.
     intended for the preparation of quality sparkling
    wines psr shall be not less that 9-5° in wine­                3 . The duration of the preparation process for
    growing zone C III and 9° in the other wine­                  quality sparkling wines psr, including ageing in
    growing zones.                                                the production undertaking shall be not less than
                                                                  nine months as from the start of the fermentation
     However, cuvees intended for the preparation of              process intended to render them effervescent.
     certain quality sparkling wines psr whose designa­
     tion refers to the variety of vine may have a total          4.     Notwithstanding paragraph 3 above, the prep­
     alcoholic strength below that stipulated in the              aration process for quality sparkling wines psr of
     preceding subparagraph in respect of the wine­               the aromatic type shall be not less than one
                                                                  month .
     growing zone concerned.
     6. A list of the quality wines psr referred to in            5 . Notwithstanding paragraph 3 above, for
     the second sentence of the first subparagraph of             quality sparkling wines psr produced in Italy until
     paragraph 4 shall be drawn up according to the               31 August 1981 the duration of the preparation
     procedure provided for in Article 7 of Regulation            process shall be not less than six months.
     No 24.
                                                                  However,
     A list of the quality sparkling wines psr referred to
     in the second subparagraph of paragraph 5 and of             — for quality sparkling wines psr for which arran­
     the minimum total alcoholic strength of their                    gements are introduced at a date between the
     respective cuvees shall be drawn up according to                  implementation of this Regulation and 31
     the same procedure .'                                             August 1981 , the Italian Republic shall have
                                                                       the option not to apply this derogation,
                          Article 5                               — for quality wines psr for which arrangements
                                                                       are introduced after 1 September 1978 , this
The following subparagraph shall be added to Article                   derogation shall be subject to an authorization
8 ( 1 ) of Regulation No 817/70 :                                      granted in accordance with Article 7 of Regula­
                                                                       tion No 24 .
     'Article 5 of Regulation (EEC) No 2893/74 shall
     apply as regards the acidification and deacidifica­          6 . The duration of the fermentation period
     tion of cuvees intended for the preparation of               referred to in paragraph 3 and the presence of the
     quality sparkling wines psr.'                                wine on the lees shall be not less than 60 days.
                                                                   However, if fermentation takes place in containers
                          Article 6                               equipped with shaking devices, the minimum
                                                                   period shall be 21 days .
The following Article 10a shall be added to Regula­
tion ( EEC) No 817/70 :                                            7 . The dosage of quality sparkling wines psr of
      Article 10a                                                 the aromatic type shall be prohibited .
      1.   For the drawn-off liquid used in preparing a            8.     Implementing rules for this Article shall be
     quality sparkling wine psr, only the following may            adopted in accordance with the procedure laid
     be used in addition to yeast and sucrose :                    down in Article 7 of Regulation No 24.'
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                         Article 7                                                         Article 9
The following Article 10b shall be added to Regula­            1 . The following paragraph 2a shall be added to
tion (EEC) No 817/70 :                                        Article 12 of Regulation (EEC) No 817/70 :
     'Article 10b                                                  '2a. The Community term "quality sparkling
                                                                   wines psr" or any traditionally equivalent specific
      1 . Without prejudice to more restrictive provi­             term may be used only for quality sparkling wines
     sions that may be applied by Member States to                  psr.
     quality sparkling wines psr produced within their
     territory, the total sulphur dioxide content of               A quality sparkling wine psr which has undergone
     quality sparkling wines psr shall not exceed 200              the process rendering it effervescent outside a
     mg/1 .                                                        specified region may only bear the name of that
                                                                    region ,
     However, up to 31 August 1976 the maximum
     sulphur dioxide content shall be raised to 250                — if the conditions referred to in the third sub­
     mg/1 for quality sparkling wines psr produced in                    paragraph of Article 5 (2) are fulfilled, and
     specified regions in which contents higher than
                                                                   — if such a designation is allowed under the laws
     that referred to in the above subparagraph are
     allowed on the date of entry into force of this                     of the Member State in whose territory the
     Regulation .                                                        grapes were harvested.'
     2.     The Council, acting on a proposal from the         2. The following sentence shall be added to the
     Commission, in accordance with the voting proce­         second subparagraph of Article 12 (4) of Regulation
     dure laid down in Article 43 (2) of the Treaty, may,     (EEC) No 817/70 :
     before 30 June 1976, extend the period referred to            ' However, a quality sparkling wine psr may not be
     in the second subparagraph of paragraph 1 , while             sold without being marked "quality sparkling wine
     taking account of the need progressively to reduce             psr" or without a traditionally equivalent specific
     the maximum sulphur dioxide content referred to               term as referred to in paragraph 2a.'
     in this subparagraph . This reduction shall be
     decided in accordance with the same procedure.
                                                              3 . The third subparagraph of Article 12 (4) of Regu­
                                                               lation (EEC) No 817/70 shall be replaced by the
     3 . Implementing rules for this Article shall be          following :
     adopted, in particular the transitional measures for
     quality wines psr produced before the date of                 'The term    "quality wine psr" or "quality sparkling
     entry into force of this Regulation, in accordance            wine psr",   whichever is appropriate, together with
    with the procedure laid down in Article 7 of Regu­             the name     of the specified region concerned must
     lation No 24 .'
                                                                   appear on    the accompanying document referred to
                                                                   in Article   29 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 816/70.'
                         Article 8
                                                                                          Article 10
The following Article 11a shall be added to Regula­
tion (EEC) No 817/70 :                                        The following sentence shall be added to Article 17 of
    'Article 11a                                              Regulation (EEC) No 817/70 :
     1.     Quality sparkling wines psr may only be put
                                                                   ' However, as regards quality sparkling wines psr,
    on the market on condition that the name of the                they shall apply until 31 August 1976.'
    specified region to which they are entitled is
     marked on the cork and the bottle carries a label
    as from leaving the place of preparation .                                            Article 11
     However, as regards labelling, exceptions may be          1 . This Regulation shall enter into force on the
    permitted provided that appropriate controls are          third day following its publication in the Official
    ensured .                                                 Journal of the European Communities.
    2.      Implementing rules for this Article shall be      2.      It shall apply as from 1 September 1975, save for
    adopted in accordance with the procedure laid             Article 10 which shall apply as from the entry into
    down in Article 7 of Regulation No 24.'                   force of this Regulation .
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States .
           Done at Brussels, 18 November 1974.
                                                                    For the Council
                                                                      The President
                                                                      Ch . BONNET