Commission Regulation (EC) No 753/2002 (repealed)Show full title

Article 31 U.K. Geographical unit smaller than the specified region

1. For the purposes of the description of a quality wine psr on the labelling in accordance with the first indent of Annex VII(B)(1)(c) to Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999, the name of a ‘geographical unit which is smaller than the specified region’ shall be taken to mean the name of:

(a) a small locality or group of localities;

(b) a local administrative area or part thereof;

(c) a wine-growing subregion or part thereof.

2. Producer Member States may allocate the name of a geographical unit which is smaller than the specified region in question to a quality wine psr provided that:

(a) the geographical unit is well defined;

(b) all the grapes from which the wines have been produced originate in that unit.

3. Where a quality wine psr is obtained from products of grapes harvested in different geographical units as referred to in paragraph 1 situated within the same specified region, the only information allowed in addition to the name of the specified region shall be the name of the larger geographical unit covering all the wine-producing areas concerned.

However, subject to Article 20, producer Member States may authorise for designation of a quality wine psr the use of:

(a) the name of a geographical unit as referred to in paragraph 1 when the wine has been sweetened with a product made in the same specified region, other than rectified concentrated grape must;

(b) the name of a geographical unit as referred to in paragraph 1 where the wine is obtained from a mixture of grapes, grape musts, new wines still in fermentation or, until [F1 31 August 2005, wines originating in the geographical unit the name of which is to be used for the designation with a product obtained in the same specified region but outside that unit, provided that at least 85 % of the quality wine psr concerned is obtained from grapes harvested in the geographical unit the name of which it bears, and provided, in respect of the exception expiring on 31 August 2005], that such an arrangement was allowed by the provisions of the producer Member State concerned before 1 September 1995;

(c) the name of a geographical unit as referred to in paragraph 1, together with the name of the local administrative area or part thereof or of one of the local administrative areas into which that geographical unit extends, provided that:

(i)

such an arrangement has been traditional and customary and was allowed for by the provisions of the Member State concerned before 1 September 1976; and

(ii)

a name of a local administrative area or part thereof or one of the names of such areas appearing in a list to be drawn up is used as being representative of all the local administrative areas over whose area that geographical unit extends.

Producer Member States shall draw up a list of the types of geographical units concerned and the names of the specified regions to which these geographical units belong covered by the derogation applying until [F1 31 August 2005] provided for in point (b). The list shall be forwarded to the Commission.

Producer Member States shall draw up a list of the names of local administrative areas as referred to in point (ii) of (c) above and shall forward it to the Commission.

The Commission shall take all appropriate steps to ensure that these lists are publicised.

4. The name of a specified region and the name of a geographical unit as referred to in paragraph 1 may not be conferred on:

• a wine resulting from the mixture of a quality sparkling wine psr with a product obtained outside the specified region in question,

• a quality sparkling wine psr that has been sweetened with a product obtained outside the specified region in question.

The first subparagraph shall not apply to wines on the list to be drawn up under Annex VI(D)(2) to Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999.

Textual Amendments

F1 Substituted by Commission Regulation (EC) No 316/2004 of 20 February 2004 amending Regulation (EC) No 753/2002 laying down certain rules for applying Council Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 as regards the description, designation, presentation and protection of certain wine sector products.