CELEX: 51987PC0642(02)
Language: en
Date: 1987-12-11
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) AMENDING REGULATION ( EEC ) NO 358/79 ON SPARKLING WINES PRODUCED IN THE COMMUNITY AS DEFINED IN POINT 15 OF ANNEX I TO REGULATION ( EEC ) NO 822/87

19. 1.88                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                               N o C 14/13
     authority of the Member State on whose territory                      movement in respect of the quality wines           psr
     the wine is located only where the properties of the                  produced in their territory.
     quality wine psr in question have deteriorated or
     altered as a result of a change noted during ageing,                  They may in particular, in respect of the quality
     storage or transport.                                                 wines psr obtained on their territory
                                                                           — limit the maximum residual sugar content of a
     3.     Detailed rules for the application of this
                                                                               quality wine psr, particularly as regards the
     Article, in particular as regards the use to be made                      relationship between the actual alcoholic strength
     of downgraded quality wines psr and the conditions                        by volume and the residual sugar,
     governing such use, shall be adopted in accordance
     with the procedure laid down in Article 83 of Regu-                   — shorten the transitional period referred to in the
     lation (EEC) No 822/87.'                                                  third subparagraph of Article 8 (2) and the third
                                                                               indent of Article 9 (2) concerning the use of
 14. Article 18 is replaced by the following:                                  concentrated grape must.'
      'Article 18
                                                                                                      Article 2
     In addition to the provisions laid down in this Regu-
     lation, producer Member States may, taking into                   This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 May 1988.
     account fair and traditional practices, lay down any
     additional or more stringent characteristics or                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and
     conditions      of . production,     manufacture      and        directly applicable in all Member States.
                Proposal for a Council Regulation (EEC) amending Regulation (EEC) No 358/79 on sparkling
                wines produced in the Community as defined in point 15 of Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No
                                                               822/87
                                                        COM(87) 642 final
                               (Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 17 December 1987)
                                                           (88/C 14/07)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                             production and entry into free circulation of quality
                                                                      sparkling wines psr in order to transfer those provisions
                                                                     to Council Regulation (EEC) No 358/79 (2), as last
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3310/85 (3), unless
Economic Community, and in particular Article 43                     they are to be inserted into Regulation (EEC) No
thereof,                                                              3309/85 laying down general rules for the description
                                                                     and presentation of sparkling wines and aerated
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                   sparkling wines (4), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)
                                                                     No . . . . / . ., or have been made superfluous by more
                                                                     recent parallel legislation;
Having regard to the opinion of the European Par-
liament,
                                                                     Whereas, in view of the fact that rectified concentrated
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and                     grape must is authorized for use in wine-making by
Social Committee,                                                    Council Regulation (EEC) No 822/87 (s) as last
                                                                     amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3146/87 (b), and in
                                                                     order to encourage the use of vine products as raw
Whereas the special provisions relating to quality wines             materials for the manufacture of sparkling wines, it
produced in specified regions are laid down by Council               should be provided that producers of sparkling wine may
Regulation (EEC) No 823/87 ('), as amended by Regu-
lation (EEC) No . . . . / . .; whereas that Regulation has           C)  OJ  No    L  54, 5. 3. 1979, p. 130.
been amended by removing therefrom the detailed                      O   OJ  No    L  32C, 29. 11. 1985, p. 19.
technical provisions relating in particular to the                   (') OJ  No    L  320, 29. 11. 1985, p. 9.
                                                                     C)  OJ  No    I. 84, 27. 3. 1987, p. 1.
(') OJ No I 84, 27. 3. 1987, p. 59                                   (") OJ  No    I. 300, 23. 10. 1987, p. 4.
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use rectified concentrated grape must; whereas, in order                   (b) of the cuvees intended for the manufacture of
to avoid negative effects on quality, the use of                                quality sparkling wines produced in specified
concentrated grape must in the manufacture of sparkling                         regions shall be:
wines should be prohibited after a transitional period;                         — not less than 9,5 % vol in wine-growing
                                                                                     zone C III,
Whereas the same methods of analysis should apply for
all categories of wine so as to make it easier to compare                       — not less than 9 % vol in other wine-growing
the results of different analyses; whereas it should be                              zones.
specified that the methods of analysis referred to in
                                                                           However, the cuvees intended for the manufacture
connection with the application of Article 74 of Regu-
                                                                           of certain quality sparkling wines psr whose
lation (EEC) No 822/87 also apply for the analysis of                      designation refers to a vine variety may have a total
sparkling wines, '                                                         alcoholic strength by volume less than that given in
                                                                           the preceding subparagraph for the wine-growing
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:                                               zone in question.
                                                                           2.     A list of the quality sparkling wines psr referred
                              Article 1                                    to in the second subparagraph of paragraph 1 and
Regulation (EEC) No 358/79 is hereby amended as                            the minimum total alcoholic strength by volume of
follows:                                                                   their respective cuvees shall be drawn up in
                                                                           accordance with the procedure laid down in Article
  1. The second paragraph of Article 2 is replaced by the                  83 of Regulation (EEC) No 822/87.'
      following:
                                                                        5. The following Article is inserted after Article 14:
      'The provisions of this Regulation, with the
      exception of Title II, shall also apply to quality                    Article 14a
      sparkling wines produced in specified regions
      (quality sparkling wines psr).'                                      1.      Quality sparkling wines psr shall be produced
                                                                           only:
  2. In Article 4,
                                                                           — from grapes of vine varieties which appear on the
      — the third indent of paragraph 1, and                                    list provided for in Article 4 (1) of Regulation
                                                                                (EEC) No 823/87 and are harvested within the
      — the fourth indent of paragraph 2                                        specified region,
                                                                           — by processing grapes as referred to in the first
    . are replaced, respectively, by the following:                             indent into must and processing the must thus
                                                                                obtained within the specified region where the
      '— rectified concentrated grape must,' and
                                                                                grapes were harvested or in immediate proximity
      '— during a transitional period ending on 31 August                       to that region.
             1989, concentrated grape must';
                                                                           However, Member States may, in individual cases
                                                                           and subject to systematic control, authorize a quality
  3. In the second subparagraph of Article 5 ( 1 ) , points                sparkling wine psr to be manufactured outside the
      (e) and (f) are replaced by the following:                           specified region or its immediate proximity where
                                                                           this is a traditional practice
      '(e) the method used is addition of dry sucrose, of
            rectified concentrated grape must or, during a                 — in use at least since 24 November 1974,
            transitional period ending on 31 August 1989, of
            concentrated grape must;                                       — during a transitional period ending on 31 August
                                                                                1992 in cases not covered by the first indent.
        (f) enrichment by the addition of sucrose is practised
            in the Member State concerned,                 either          2.      Detailed rules for the application of this Article
            traditionally or exceptionally, in accordance with             shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure
            the rules existing on 24 November 1974.'                       laid down in Article 83 of Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                           822/87.'
  4. Article - 13 is replaced by the following:
                                                                        6. Article 15 is replaced by the following:
       'Article 13
                                                                            Article 15
       1.     The total alcoholic strength by volume
                                                                            1.     In preparing the tirage liqueur intended for the
      (a) of the cuvees intended for the manufacture of                    manufacture of quality sparkling wine, only the
             quality sparkling wines shall be not less than 9 %            following may be used in addition to yeasts, sucrose
             vol;                                                          and rectified concentrated grape must:
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    — grape must or grape must still in fermentation                 7. In Article 17 (3), '1 September 1987' is replaced by
         from which a wine suitable for yielding a table                 '1 September 1990'.
         wine can be obtained,
                                                                     8. Article 18 (2) is replaced by the following:
    — wines suitable for yielding a table wine,
                                                                        '2.     Notwithstanding Article       14, the actual
         — table wines, or
                                                                        alcoholic strength by volume of quality sparkling
         — quality wines psr.                                           wines of the aromatic type and of quality sparkling
                                                                        wines psr of the aromatic type may not be less than
    In preparing the tirage liqueur intended for the                    6 % vol.
    manufacture of a quality sparkling wine psr, only the
    following may be used in addition to yeasts, sucrose                The total alcoholic strength by volume of quality
    and rectified concentrated grape must:                              sparkling wines of the aromatic type and of quality
                                                                        sparkling wines psr of the aromatic type may not be
    — grape must,                                                       less than 10 % vol.'
    — grape must still in fermentation,
                                                                    9. The following paragraph is added to Article 19:
    — wine,
                                                                        'Member States may, in respect of the sparkling
    — quality wine psr                                                  wines made on their territory, shorten the
                                                                        transitional period referred to in the fourth indent of
    suitable for yielding the same quality sparkling wine
                                                                        Article 4(1) and the fifth indent of Article 4 (2) and
    psr as that to which the tirage liqueur is added.
                                                                        in the second subparagraph of Article 5 (1) under (e)
                                                                        concerning the use of concentrated grape must.'
    2.     Notwithstanding point 15 of Annex I to Regu-
    lation (EEC) No 822/87, quality sparkling wines
    and quality sparkling wines psr, when kept at a                10. Article 20 is replaced by the following:
    temperature of 20 °C in closed containers, shall have                'Article 20
    an excess pressure of not less than 3,5 bar.
                                                                        The methods of analysis to be used for the purposes
    However, for quality sparkling wines and quality                    of this Regulation shall be those referred to in
    sparkling wines psr kept in containers of a capacity                Article 74 of Regulation (EEC) No 822/87.'
    of less than 25 centilitres, the minimum excess
    pressure shall be 3 bar.
                                                                                              Article 2
    3.     Detailed rules for the application of this Article      This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 May 1988.
    shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure
    laid down in Article 83 of Regulation (EEC) No                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and
    822/87.'                                                       directly applicable in all Member States.