Commission Regulation (EC) No 555/2008Dangos y teitl llawn

Commission Regulation (EC) No 555/2008 of 27 June 2008 laying down detailed rules for implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 479/2008 on the common organisation of the market in wine as regards support programmes, trade with third countries, production potential and on controls in the wine sector

TITLE IU.K.INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS

F1Article 1U.K. [F1Scope and use of terms]

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TITLE IIU.K.SUPPORT PROGRAMMES

CHAPTER IU.K.Procedure for submission

F2Article 2U.K. [F2 [F3Submission of support programmes]

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F2Article 3U.K. Modifications of support programmes]

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CHAPTER IIU.K.Eligible measures

F2Section 1U.K. [F2 [F4Promotion]

F2Sub-section 1U.K. [F5Promotion in third countries]
F2Article 4U.K. Eligible operations and markets

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F2Article 5U.K. Selection procedure

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F2Article 5aU.K. [F6Eligible costs]

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F2Sub-section 2U.K. [F5Promotion in the Member States
F2Article 5bU.K. Eligible operations

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F2Article 5cU.K. Characteristics of the information

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F2Article 5dU.K. Duration of the support

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F2Article 5eU.K. Advance payments

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F2Article 5fU.K. Demarcation with rural development and promotion of agricultural products

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F2Article 5faU.K. [F7Selection procedure]

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F2Sub-section 3U.K. Common rules
F2Article 5gU.K. Eligible costs]

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F2Section 2U.K. Restructuring and conversion of vineyards

F2Article 6U.K. [F8Ineligible operations]

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F2Article 6aU.K. [F5Replanting for health or phytosanitary reasons]

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F2Article 7U.K. Procedure and applications

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F2Article 8U.K. [F8Levels of support]

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F2Article 9U.K. Financial management

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F2Article 10U.K. [F9Transitional measures]

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F2Article 10aU.K. [F10Compatibility and consistency]

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F2Section 3U.K. Green harvesting

F2Article 11U.K. Definition of green harvesting

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F2Article 12U.K. Conditions for the implementation of green harvesting

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F2Article 13U.K. Application procedure

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F2Article 14U.K. Compensation

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F2Section 4U.K. Mutual funds

F2Article 15U.K. Level of the aid

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F2Section 5U.K. Harvest insurance

F2Article 16U.K. Conditions of eligibility

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F2Section 6U.K. Investments

F2Article 17U.K. Eligible measures

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F2Article 18U.K. Eligible measures for the development of new products

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F2Article 19U.K. [F11Financial management]

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F2Article 20U.K. [F12Compatibility and consistency]

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F2Section 6aU.K. [F5Innovation

F2Article 20aU.K. Eligible operations

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F2Article 20bU.K. Demarcation with rural development and other legal regimes and financial instruments

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F2Article 20cU.K. [F7Financial management] ] ]

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Section 7U.K.Disposal of by-products

F1Article 21U.K. [F1Fixing a minimum percentage of alcohol

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F1Article 22U.K. Disposal of by-products

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F1Article 23U.K. Disposal with by-product distillation]

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F2Article 24U.K. [F2Purpose of the aid

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F2Article 25U.K. Amount of the aid

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F2Article 25aU.K. [F10Verification of conditions]

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F9Section 8U.K. [F9Potable alcohol distillation

F9Article 26U.K. Purpose of the aid

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F9Article 27U.K. Amount of the aid

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F9Section 9U.K. Crisis distillation

F9Article 28U.K. Definition of the measure

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F9Article 29U.K. Modalities of the aid

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F9Article 30U.K. Amount of the aid

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F9Article 31U.K. National aid

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F9Section 10U.K. Use of concentrated grape must

F9Article 32U.K. Purpose of the aid

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F9Article 33U.K. Amount of the aid

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F9Article 34U.K. Checks]

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F2CHAPTER IIIU.K. Reporting, evaluation and general provisions

F2Article 35U.K. Reporting and evaluation

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F2Article 36U.K. Exclusion

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F2Article 37U.K. Payment delay to beneficiaries

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F2Article 37aU.K. [F13Communication related to State aid]

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F2Article 37bU.K. [F14Communication related to advances] ]

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TITLE IIIU.K.TRADE WITH THIRD COUNTRIES

CHAPTER IU.K.Entry price arrangements for grape juice and must

F1Article 38U.K. [F1Definition

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F1Article 39U.K. Verification by consignment

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F1CHAPTER IIU.K. Certificates and analysis reports for wine, grape juice and must on import

F1Section 1U.K. General

F1Article 40U.K. Documents required

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F1Article 41U.K. Contents of the analysis report

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F1Article 42U.K. Exemptions

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F1Section 2U.K. Requirements to be met and detailed rules for drawing up and using the certificate and analysis report for imports of wine, grape juice and grape must

F1Article 43U.K. V I 1 document

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F1Article 44U.K. Description of documents

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F1Article 45U.K. Simplified procedure

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F1Article 45aU.K. [F14Electronic document]

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F1Article 46U.K. Derogations

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F1Article 47U.K. Use

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F1Article 48U.K. List of competent bodies

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F1Article 49U.K. Indirect imports

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F1Article 50U.K. Special rules for particular wines

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F1Article 51U.K. Conformity of imported wines

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F1CHAPTER IIIU.K. Specific provisions on exports

F1Article 52U.K. Notification of official bodies

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F1CHAPTER IVU.K. Transitional provisions

F1Article 53U.K. V I 1 and V I 2 conformity

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F1Article 54U.K. Release of security]

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TITLE IVU.K.PRODUCTION POTENTIAL

CHAPTER IU.K.Unlawful plantings

Article 55U.K.Penalties in case of non-compliance with the grubbing-up obligation

1.The penalties referred to in Article 85(3) and Article 86(4) second subparagraph of Regulation (EC) No 479/2008 shall be determined so as to provide an appropriate sanction for those who violated the provisions concerned.

Without prejudice, where applicable, to earlier penalties imposed by Member States, Member States shall determine the penalties referred to in Article 85(3) and Article 86(4) second subparagraph of Regulation (EC) No 479/2008 on the basis of the following principles:

(a)basic financial penalty to be imposed shall be at least EUR 12 000/ha;

(b)Member States may increase the penalty based on the commercial value of the wines produced in the vineyards concerned.

2.Member States shall impose the penalty referred to in Article 85(3) of Regulation (EC) No 479/2008:

(a)for unlawful plantings existing at the time of the entry into force of this Regulation for the first time on 1 January 2009;

(b)for unlawful plantings from after the entry into force of this Regulation for the first time with effect of the date of those plantings.

The penalty shall be levied again every 12 months, counted from those dates and in accordance with the criteria established in paragraph 1 of this Article, until compliance with the grubbing-up obligation.

3.Member States shall impose the penalty referred to in Article 86(4) second subparagraph of Regulation (EC) No 479/2008 for the first time on 1 July 2010 for non-compliance with the grubbing-up obligation and thereafter every 12 months until compliance in accordance with the criteria established in paragraph 1 of this Article

4.Penalties collected within the meaning of this Article shall be retained by the Member State concerned.

Article 56U.K.Penalties in case of non-compliance with prohibition of circulation

1.The penalties referred to in Article 87(2) of Regulation (EC) No 479/2008 shall be determined so as to mean an appropriate sanction for those who violated the provisions concerned.

2.The penalties referred to in paragraph 1 shall be imposed if a producer concerned, having more than 0.1 hectares of vineyard area, and according to the appropriate case:

(a)does not submit the distillation contract by the deadline specified in the second subparagraph of Article 57(1) or these contracts do not cover the entire production concerned, as declared in the harvest or production declaration; or

(b)does not inform the competent authority about the intended green harvesting by the deadline specified in the third subparagraph of Article 57(1) or does not carry out the green harvesting in a satisfactory manner.

3.Member States shall impose the penalties referred to in paragraph 1:

(a)in case of non-submission of the distillation contract, one month after the expiry of the deadline laid down in the second subparagraph of Article 57(1);

(b)in case of failure to comply with the rules about green harvesting, on 1 September of the calendar year concerned.

4.Penalties collected within the meaning of this Article shall be retained by the Member State concerned.

Article 57U.K.Non-circulation or distillation

1.In case of Article 87(1) of Regulation (EC) No 479/2008, the grapes or products made from grapes may only have one the following destinations:

(a)distillation at the exclusive expense of the producer;

(b)green harvesting in accordance with the definition of Article 12(1) of Regulation (EC) No 479/2008, at the expense of the producer concerned;

(c)family consumption; this possibility is only acceptable if the producer’s vineyard area does not exceed 0,1 ha.

In case of the distillation foreseen in point (a) of the first subparagraph:

  • producers shall submit the distillation contract foreseen in Article 87(1) of Regulation (EC) No 479/2008 by the end of the wine year in which the products were produced,

  • products produced before regularisation of the vineyard in accordance with Article 86(1) of Regulation (EC) No 479/2008 shall be subject to the distillation obligation.

In case of the green harvesting as foreseen in point (b) of the first subparagraph, producers shall inform the competent authority in advance about their intention before a date fixed by the Member States in accordance with Article 12(1)(b). Member States shall control green harvesting according to Article 12(1)(d) of this Regulation.

2.Without prejudice to paragraph 1, in order to facilitate control, Member States may foresee an obligation to the producers to notify the competent authority of the Member State before the date fixed by the Member States in accordance with Article 12(1)(b) which of the possibilities mentioned in points (a) to (c) of the first subparagraph of paragraph 1 of this Article they are going to choose.

Member States may also limit the choice of producers to only one or two of the possibilities mentioned in points (a) to (c) of the first subparagraph of paragraph 1.

3.In case the given producer has vineyards the products from which may be marketed, the competent authorities shall be responsible for ensuring that the products from the unlawful planting are not added to the products of these other vineyards that are marketed.

[F15Article 58 U.K. Communications

1. Member States shall communicate to the Commission by 1 March each year the areas for which penalty was paid and the amount of penalty that was actually imposed in the form set out in Table 1 of Annex XIII. They shall also communicate to the Commission their legislation related to these penalties.

Such obligation shall no longer apply to those Member States where no unlawful plantings remain to be grubbed up.

2. Save as otherwise indicated in the appropriate tables of Annex XIII to this Regulation, the communications referred to in Article 85c(3), Article 188a(1) and Article 188a(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 shall refer to the previous wine year.

The yearly communications shall be made in the forms set out in Tables 3 and 7 of Annex XIII to this Regulation.

3. Member States may decide whether or not to include details related to regions in the communications referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2.]

Article 59U.K.Reductions imposed on Member States

In case Member States fail to communicate any of the tables by the relevant deadlines, except for Table 2, referred to in Article 58, in the form laid down in Annex XIII to this Regulation, containing the information specified in Articles 85(4), 86(5) and 87(3) of Regulation (EC) No 479/2008 and filled in appropriately, their allocation for the support measures referred to in Article 7 of Regulation (EC) No 479/2008 may be reduced as foreseen in Article 89(a) of Regulation (EC) No 479/2008. The Commission may decide that, according to the scope of the failure, for every month of delay, an amount of up to a total of 1 % of the allocation for the support measures of the given Member State shall be forfeited starting from the beginning of the wine year following the one in which the communication was due.

CHAPTER IIU.K.Transitional planting right regime

F2Article 60U.K. [F2New planting rights]

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[F15Article 61 U.K. Member States communication obligations related to new planting rights

Member States shall communicate to the Commission by 1 March 2016 the following information in respect of the period from 1 August 2014 to 31 December 2015 :

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the total areas for which new planting rights have been granted in accordance with each of paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 of Article 60; and

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the total area for which new planting rights have been granted cumulatively in accordance with Article 85h of Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007; where a Member State makes use of the derogation provided for in Article 60(6) of this Regulation, it shall instead communicate an estimate of the total area concerned, which shall be based on the results of the monitoring carried out.

This communication shall be made in the form set out in Table 8 of Annex XIII to this Regulation.

Member States may decide whether or not to include details related to regions in the communication.]

F2Article 62U.K. [F2Grubbing up without generation of replanting right

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F2Article 63U.K. Anticipated replanting rights

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F2Article 64U.K. Transfers of replanting rights]

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Article 65U.K.Reserves of planting rights

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[F155. Member States shall, in the form laid down in Table 9 of Annex XIII, communicate to the Commission by 1 March 2016 the following information in respect of the period from 1 August 2014 to 31 December 2015 :

(a) the planting rights allocated to the reserves;

(b) the planting rights granted from the reserve against or without payment.]

F2Article 66U.K. [F2Maintenance of the planting rights system]

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F9CHAPTER IIIU.K. [F9Grubbing-up scheme

F9Article 67U.K. Eligibility

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F9Article 68U.K. Exemption reasons

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F9Article 69U.K. Premium level

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F9Article 70U.K. Application procedure

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F9Article 71U.K. Procedure in case of application of a single percentage for acceptance

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F9Article 72U.K. Payment of the premium

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F9Article 73U.K. Communications]

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CHAPTER IVU.K.Inventory and measurement of the area planted

F1Article 74U.K. [F1 [F15Inventory] ]

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F2Article 75U.K. [F2Area planted]

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TITLE VU.K.CONTROLS IN THE WINE SECTOR

CHAPTER IU.K.Principles of control

F2Article 76U.K. [F2Checks

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F2Article 77U.K. General principles

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F2Article 78U.K. On-the-spot checks

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F2Article 79U.K. Selection of the control sample

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F2Article 80U.K. Control report

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F2Article 81U.K. [F16Control related to the production potential and to the operations of restructuring and conversion of vineyards]

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F2Article 82U.K. Control bodies]

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F1Article 83U.K. [F1Powers of control officials

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F1CHAPTER IIU.K. Assistance between control bodies

F1Article 84U.K. Assistance on request

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F1Article 85U.K. Unsolicited assistance

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F1Article 86U.K. Common provisions

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F1CHAPTER IIIU.K. Analytical databank

F1Article 87U.K. Purpose of the databank

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F1Article 88U.K. Samples

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F1Article 89U.K.

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F1Article 90U.K. Communication of results

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F1Article 91U.K. Compliance with procedures

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F1CHAPTER IVU.K. Collection of samples for control purposes

F1Article 92U.K. Request for collection of samples

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F1Article 93U.K. Costs of collection, dispatch and analysis of samples

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F1CHAPTER VU.K. General provisions

F1Article 94U.K. Conclusive force

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F1Article 95U.K. Persons subject to controls

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F1Article 95aU.K. [F17Coordination of controls and access to information] ]

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TITLE VIU.K.GENERAL, TRANSITIONAL AND FINAL PROVISIONS

F2Article 96U.K. [F2Payments to beneficiaries

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F2Article 97U.K. Recovery of undue payments]

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F1Article 98U.K. [F1National sanctions

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F1Article 99U.K. Artificially created situations

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F1Article 100U.K. [F18Communications and notifications]

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F1Article 101U.K. Obvious errors

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F1Article 102U.K. Force majeure and exceptional circumstances]

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Article 103U.K.Repeal and references

1.Regulations (EC) No 1227/2000, (EC) No 1623/2000, (EC) No 2729/2000 and (EC) No 883/2001 are repealed.

However,

(a)The relevant rules set out in Regulations (EC) No 1227/2000 and (EC) No 1623/2000 shall continue to apply in so far as measures eligible under Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 have been commenced or undertaken before 1 August 2008;

[F12(b) Table 9 of the Annex to Regulation (EC) No 1227/2000 shall continue to apply unless otherwise provided in an implementing regulation on the labelling and presentation of wines to be adopted on the basis of Article 63 of Regulation (EC) No 479/2008;]

(c)Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1623/2000 shall remain in force until 31 July 2012.

2.References to the repealed Regulations in accordance with paragraph 1 shall be construed as references to this Regulation and shall be read in accordance with the correlation table in Annex XXII.

Article 104U.K.Entry into force

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

It shall apply from 1 August 2008.

However, Article 2 and Chapter III of Title IV shall apply as from 30 June 2008.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.