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AddedRegulation (EU) No 1308/2013

AddedArticle 1 – paragraph 1 – point 6, Article 122 – paragraph 1 – point d – point v: (v) the use of electronic means to provide compulsory indications, including in respect of the symbol referred to in Article 119(6), point (i), and if necessary to update them;

AddedRegulation (EU) No 1308/2013

AddedArticle 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7, Article 167 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1: 1. In order to improve and stabilise the operation of the common market in wines, including the grapes, musts and wines from which they derive, producer Member States may lay down marketing rules to regulate supply, including the setting of maximum yields and setting rules for the management of stocks. Member States shall take into account decisions adopted by interbranch organisations recognised under Articles 157 and 158 or, failing that, decisions adopted by producer organisations recognised under Articles 152 and 154 when such organisations are considered to be representative for the wine sector, in accordance with Article 164(3), in the economic area or areas where the rules are intended to be applied, or by recognised producer groups in accordance with Articles 32 and 33 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1143.

AddedRegulation (EU) No 1308/2013

AddedArticle 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7 a (new), Article 172b: (7a) Article 172b is replaced by the following: / ‘Article 172b / Guidance by interbranch organisations and recognised producer groups in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2024/1143 for the sale of grapes, musts and bulk wines for wines with a protected designation of origin or protected geographical indication / By way of derogation from Article 101(1) TFEU, interbranch organisations recognised under Article 157 of this Regulation and recognised producer groups in accordance with the Article 33 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1143 operating in the wine sector may provide non-mandatory price guidance indicators concerning the sale of grapes, musts and bulk wines for the production of wines with a protected designation of origin or protected geographical indication, provided that such guidance does not eliminate competition in respect of a substantial proportion of the products in question.’

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AddedRegulation (EU) No 1308/2013

AddedArticle 1 – paragraph 1 – point 8 – point b, Article 216 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3: The payments referred to in the first subparagraph shall not exceed a sum corresponding to the aggregated cost of the product, where relevant, and of the operation concerned, plus an incentive to engage in such operation. The size of such payments shall be proportionate to the nature and extent of the crisis and shall be sufficient to enable it to be addressed. Beneficiaries of funds allocated to the crisis measures referred to in this paragraph shall not be eligible to receive support for the same green harvesting, distillation, or grubbing-up measures pursuant to Article 58(1), point (c), of Regulation (EU) 2021/2115, implemented in respect of the same hectares.

AddedRegulation (EU) No 1308/2013

AddedArticle 1 – paragraph 1 – point 8 – point b, Article 216 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 4: The overall amount of payments available in a Member State in any given year for national payments for distillation and green harvesting shall not exceed 30 % the globally available funds per Member State for that year as laid down in Annex VII to Regulation (EU) 2021/2115. This ceiling shall apply exclusively to national contributions and shall not affect the possibility of Union funds being allocated for the same measures under the sectoral intervention framework.

AddedRegulation (EU) No 1308/2013

AddedArticle 1 – paragraph 1 – point 8 – point b, Article 216 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 4 a (new): In order to facilitate the grubbing up, the Member States may establish conditions for eligibility and priority that guarantee the effectiveness and targeting of the measure.

AddedRegulation (EU) No 1308/2013

AddedArticle 1 – paragraph 1 – point 8 – point c, Article 216 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2 a (new): The beneficiaries of national payments allocated to the voluntary measures referred to in paragraph 1 shall, for a period of two years, not be eligible to benefit from other wine support programmes aimed at increasing production.

AddedRegulation (EU) No 1308/2013

AddedArticle 1 – paragraph 1 – point 8 a (new), Article 219 – paragraph 1 a (new): (8a) In Article 219, the following paragraph is inserted: / ‘1a. In cases of oversupply of the products listed in Part II of Annex VII, the measures referred to in paragraph 1 may include voluntary distillation of wine, voluntary green harvesting and voluntary grubbing up of productive vineyards.’

AddedRegulation (EU) No 1308/2013

AddedArticle 1 – paragraph 1 – point 9, Annex VII – Part II – subparagraphs 2 and 2 a (new): Grapevine products of the categories set out in points (4) and (8) may be obtained by second fermentation of de-alcoholised or partially de-alcoholised wines referred to in point (1). / Grapevine products of the categories set out in points (7) and (9) may be obtained by the addition of carbon dioxide to de-alcoholised or partially de-alcoholised wines referred to in point (1).

AddedRegulation (EU) No 1308/2013

AddedArticle 1 – paragraph 1 – point 9 a (new), Annex VIII – part I – point E: (9a) In Annex VIII, Part I, point E is replaced by the following: / ‘E. De-alcoholisation processes / (c) distillation; / (d) blending. / The de-alcoholisation processes used shall not result in organoleptic defects of the grapevine product. The elimination of ethanol in grapevine products shall not be done in conjunction with an increase of the sugar content in the grape must.’

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ChangedArticle 2 – paragraph 1 – point 2 a (new), Article 6 a – paragraph 3 a (new): (2a) In Article 6a, the following paragraph is inserted: / 3a.‘3a. When providing the nutrition declaration and the list of ingredients in accordance with paragraphs 2 and 3 and other compulsory or voluntary indications laid down by EU or national legislation, the electronic means shall: / (i) be identified without words by means of the ISO 7001 PI PF 001 symbol; and / (ii) appear in close proximity to the energy value. / Aromatised wine products bearing labels using other ways of presenting the electronic means and lawfully printed before ... [the entry into force of this Regulation] may continue to be placed on the market until stocks of those labels are exhausted.exhausted.’

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ChangedArticle 2 – paragraph 1 – point 3, Article 6 a6a – paragraph 4a – point a: (a) the use of electronic means to provide mandatory or voluntary information inter alia in respect of the symbol referred to in paragraph 3a, point (i), updated as necessary;

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Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 3 a (new), Article 6a a (new): (3a) The following article is inserted: / ‘Article 6aa / Presentation of mandatory particulars / Provisions requiring mandatory particulars to be indicated in the same field of vision shall only apply once.’

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AddedRegulation (EU) 2019/934

AddedArticle 2 a (new), Article 7: Article 2a / Amendments to Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/934 / Article 7 is amended as follows: / ‘Article 7 / (b) wines without a protected designation of origin and wines without protected geographical indication, wines with a protected designation of origin (PDO) and wines with a protected geographical indication (PGI) as well as musts or wines suitable for yielding one of these categories of wine; / (c) partially de-alcoholised wine, dealcoholised wine and wine. / For the purposes of this paragraph, rosé wine shall be regarded as red wine. / 3. The following processes shall not be regarded as coupage: / (a) enrichment by the addition of concentrated grape must or rectified concentrated grape must; / (b) sweetening.’

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RemovedArticle 3 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point -a (new), Article 58 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point c: (-a) point (c) is replaced by the following: / (c) one or more of the following voluntary measures, provided they are planned in accordance with the criteria and provisions set out in Article 216 of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013: / (i) green harvesting, which means the total destruction or removal of grape bunches while still in their immature stage, thereby reducing the yield of the relevant area to zero, and excluding non-harvesting comprising of leaving commercial grapes on the plants at the end of the normal production cycle; / (ii) grubbing up, which means the complete or partial elimination of the vine stocks on a plot planted with vines; / (iii) wine distillation;”

AddedArticle 3 – paragraph 1 – point -1 (new), Article 57 – paragraph 1 – point e: (-1) In Article 57, point (e) is replaced by the following: / ‘(e) contributing to restoring the balance of supply and demand in the Union wine market in order to prevent market crises, including by supporting diversification of productions in case of overproduction of wine; that objective relates to the specific objective set out in Article 6(1), point (a);’

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RemovedArticle 3 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point a a (new), Article 58 – paragraph 1 – point m a (new): (aa) the following point is added: / ‘(ma) actions undertaken to prevent the spread of flavescence dorée by producer organisations recognised under Articles 152 and 154 of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 or interbranch organisations recognised by Member States under Articles 157 and 158 of that Regulation or producer groups managing protected designation of origin and protected geographical indicators in accordance with Article 33 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1143.'

AddedArticle 3 – paragraph 1 – point -1 a (new), Article 58 – paragraph 1 – point a – point i: (-1a) In Article 58(1), point a, point i is replaced by the following: / ‘(i) varietal conversions, also by means of grafting-on, including for improving quality, resilience or environmental sustainability, for reasons of adaptation to climate change or for the enhancement of genetic diversity;

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RemovedArticle 3 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point b, Article 58 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2: For the purposes of the first subparagraph, point (a), Member States may lay down in their CAP Strategic Plans specific agronomic, viticultural or any other kind of conditions which ensure, prior to the implementation of those conditions, that there is no increase in yield for the vineyard subject to this type of interventions after the varietal conversion, the relocation of the vineyard, the replanting of the vineyard or the improvement of the vineyard management techniques.

AddedArticle 3 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point -a (new), Article 58 – paragraph 1 – point a – point iv a (new): (-a) ’the following point is added: / (iva) diversification of productions, in particular in case of grubbing up;

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RemovedArticle 3 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point b a (new), Article 58 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 a (new): (ba) The following subparagraph is inserted after the first subparagraph: / ‘Beneficiaries of funds allocated to the voluntary crisis measures referred to in point (c) of the first subparagraph shall not be eligible to receive support for green harvesting, distillation, or grubbing-up measures pursuant to Article 216 of Regulation (EU) 1308/2013 implemented in the same hectares. Those same beneficiaries shall for a period of three years not be eligible to benefit from other wine support programmes aimed at increasing productivity.’

AddedArticle 3 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point -a a (new), Article 58 – paragraph 1 – point b: (-aa) point b is replaced by the following: / ‘(b) investments in tangible assets, such as the development of wine tourism infrastructure, and intangible assets in wine-growing farming systems, excluding operations relevant to the type of intervention provided for in point (a), in processing facilities and winery infrastructure, as well as in marketing structures and tools;’

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RemovedArticle 3 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point c – introductory part, Article 58 – paragraph 1: (c) the second subparagraph becomes the fourth subparagraph and is replaced by the following:

AddedArticle 3 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point -a b (new), Article 58 – paragraph 1 – point c: (-ab) point c is replaced by the following: / (deleted) / ‘(c) one or more of the following voluntary measures, provided they are planned in accordance with Article 216 of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013, in particular the criteria set out therein: / (i) green harvesting, which means the total destruction or removal of grape bunches while still in their immature stage, thereby reducing the yield of the relevant area to zero, and excluding non-harvesting comprising of leaving commercial grapes on the plants at the end of the normal production cycle; / (ii) grubbing up, meaning the complete or partial elimination of the vine stocks on a plot planted with vines; / (iii) wine distillation;’

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RemovedArticle 3 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point c, Article 58 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3: The first subparagraph, point (k), shall apply only to wines with a protected designation of origin or a protected geographical indication or wines with an indication of the wine grape variety. Promotion and communication operations aimed at the consolidation of market outlets shall be limited to a duration of five years and shall concern only the Union quality schemes covering designations of origin and geographical indications. The promotion and communication operations may be extended for five more years if this is considered necessary for the purposes of consolidating market outlets.

AddedArticle 3 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point -a c (new), Article 58 – paragraph 1 – point f: (-ac) point f is replaced by the following: / (f) advisory services, in particular concerning the conditions of employment, employer obligations and occupational health and safety as well as sustainability practices;

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RemovedArticle 3 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point c a (new), Article 58 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3 a (new): (ca) the following subparagraph is added: / ‘In relation to the first subparagraph, point (k), in their Strategic Plans, Member States may consider that third-country market refers to distinct markets within the same third country, enabling a distinction to be made between different regions, consumer segments or types of distribution channels within one third country.’

AddedArticle 3 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point a, Article 58 – paragraph 1 – point i: actions undertaken by interbranch organisations recognised by Member States in the wine sector in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013, by professional organisations recognised under Article 40(1) of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/126, aiming at enhancing the reputation of Union vineyards by promoting wine tourism in production regions or, if no interbranch organisation exists, by producer groups managing protected designations of origin and protected geographical indications in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2024/1143*; and other producer groups promoting vine and wine tourism, including cooperatives or associations representing independent winemakers;

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RemovedArticle 3 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point -a (new), Article 59 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3 a (new): (-a) in paragraph 1, the following subparagraph is added: / ‘By way of derogation from the first subparagraph, the Union financial assistance for restructuring and conversion of vineyards referred to in Article 58(1), first subparagraph, point (a), may go up to 80 % of the actual costs of restructuring and conversion of vineyards linked to the objective of contributing to climate change mitigation and adaptation set out in Article 57, point (b).’