TITLE VFINAL PROVISIONS
Article 45Wine produced before 1 August 2000
Wine produced before 1 August 2000 may be offered or supplied for direct human consumption provided that it complies with the Community or national rules in force prior to that date.
Article 46Requirements for distillation, movement and use of products not complying with Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 or with this Regulation
1
Products which, pursuant to Article 45(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999, may not be offered or supplied for direct human consumption shall be destroyed. However, Member States may authorise the use of certain products the characteristics of which they shall determine, by distilleries or vinegar factories or for industrial purposes.
2
Such products may not be held without legitimate cause by producers or traders and they may be moved only to distilleries, vinegar factories, establishments using them for industrial purposes or products or elimination plants.
3
Member States may have denaturing agents or indicators added to wines as referred to in paragraph 1 in order to make them more easily identifiable. Where justified, they may also prohibit the uses provided for in paragraph 1 and have the products eliminated.
Article 47Applicable Community methods for the analysis of wines
Regulation (EEC) No 2676/90 shall apply to products covered by Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999.
Article 48Repeal
Regulation (EC) No 1622/2000 is repealed.
References to the repealed Regulation shall be construed as references to this Regulation and shall be read in accordance with the correlation table in Annex XXIII.
Article 49
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.