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.
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.
Regulation (EEC) No 2676/90 shall apply to products covered by Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999.
Regulation (EC) No 1622/2000 is repealed.
References to the repealed Regulation shall be construed as references to this Regulation and shall be read in accordance with the correlation table in Annex XXIII.
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.