Council Directive 92/84/EECShow full title

Article 7

1. The Hellenic Republic may apply a reduced rate of excise duty to ethyl alcohol consumed in the departments of Lesbos, Chios, Samos, the Dodecanese and the Cyclades and on the following islands in the Aegean: Thasos, Northern Sporades, Samothrace and Skiros.

The reduced rate, which may fall below the minimum rate of duty, may not fall more than 50 % below the standard national rate of duty on ethyl alcohol.

2. The Italian Republic may continue to apply the exemptions and reduced rates of excise duty, which may fall below the minimum rates, which were applied on 1 January 1992 to alcohol and alcoholic drinks consumed in the regions of Gorizia and the Aosta valley.

3. The Portuguese Republik may continue to apply, in the autonomous regions of Madeira and the Azores, reduced rates of excise duty not falling more than 50 % below the national rates, on the following products:

(a) in Madeira

• (a) wine obtained from the purely regional grape varieties specified in Article 15 of Regulation (EEC) No 4252/88,

• rum as defined in Article 1 (4) (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 1576/89 having the geographical characteristics set out in Article 5 (3) and Annex II, point 1, of that Regulation,

• liqueurs produced from sub-tropical fruit enriched with sugar cane eau-de-vie and having the characteristics and qualities defined in Article 5 (3) (b) of Regulation (EEC) No 1576/89;

(b) in the Azores

• (b) liqueurs as defined in Article 1 (4) (r) of Regulation (EEC) No 1576/89 produced from passion fruit and pineapple,

• eau-de-vie made from wine or from grape marc having the characteristics and qualities defined in Article 1 (4) (d) and (f) of Regulation (EEC) No 1576/89.