Search for You are here: Home Home Home Who we are Contacts Control plans Rates for DOP and IGP wines Product certification Marks traceability Forms and communications Laws and standards Controlled denominations Varietal wines News We remind you that the activity of the doc / docg Tasting Commissions will be suspended as usual in the two central weeks of August only. We therefore recommend that you anticipate any withdrawal requests by the end of July, to allow tastings in the first week of August. Normal activity will resume from 22 August. The offices of TCA srl will be closed from 8 to 19 August 2016 . The new GEREM management system has been operational since July 2015 . Operators who wish to do so can request access credentials. For instructions click here . Tuscany Certification Agroalimentare Srl Toscana Certificazione Agroalimentare Srl, in abbreviated form TCA srl, operates as a certification and control body for wine products pursuant to regulations, community decrees, national and regional laws. The EC regulation 1234/2007 and subsequent amendments relating to the common organization of the wine market dictate new rules on the subject of verifying compliance with the production regulations for wines with denomination of origin and geographical indication. With this legislation, the wine sector is made homologous ope legis - as regards controls - to the other supply chains of regulated quality products (PDO, PGI, TSG) and organic farming. In fact, the aforementioned regulation provides that for protected designations of origin and protected geographical indications, the annual verification of compliance with the specification can be carried out by control bodies which, pursuant to article 2, second paragraph, point 5, of the regulation ( CE) n. 882/2004, operate as product certification bodies according to the criteria set out in article 5 of said regulation. Article 2 of Regulation 882/2004 defines a "control body" as an independent third party to which the competent authority has delegated certain control tasks and which operates according to the criteria of impartiality and transparency provided for by the UNI CEI EN ISO / IEC accreditation standard 17065: 2012. TCA srl was authorized by Ministerial Decree of 17 July 2009 to carry out the control and certification functions referred to in Article 118 septdecies of EC regulation 1234/2007 as amended by EC regulation No. 491/2009. TCA srl is in charge - Ministerial Decrees n. 12764 of 26 June 2015 and no. 13544 of 8 July 2016 - to carry out these control and certification functions for the Designations of Origin "Barco Reale di Carmignano", "Bianco dell'Empolese", "Carmignano", "Chianti", "Colli dell'Etruria Centrale", " Colline Lucchesi "," Cortona "," Grance Senesi "," Montecarlo "," Montescudaio "," Orcia "," Parrina "," Pomino "," San Torpè "," Terre di Casole "," ACCREDIA has verified the compliance of TCA srl with the UNI EN ISO / IEC 17065 standard, issuing Accreditation Certificate n. 102B of 16 April 2010 , modified on 23 February 2015. Home| Who we are| Contacts|Marks traceability © 2013 TUSCANY CERTIFICATION AGROALIMENTARE srl - All rights reserved VAT number 01785110469 Illustrations: Alberto Pagliaro , graphic design and assembly: