TITLE IINTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS
F1Article 1F1Scope and use of terms
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TITLE IISUPPORT PROGRAMMES
CHAPTER IProcedure for submission
F2Article 2F2F3Submission of support programmes
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F2Article 3Modifications of support programmes
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CHAPTER IIEligible measures
F2Section 1F2F4Promotion
F2Sub-section 1F5Promotion in third countries
F2Article 4Eligible operations and markets
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F2Article 5Selection procedure
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F2Article 5aF6Eligible costs
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F2Sub-section 2F5Promotion in the Member States
F2Article 5bEligible operations
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F2Article 5cCharacteristics of the information
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F2Article 5dDuration of the support
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F2Article 5eAdvance payments
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F2Article 5fDemarcation with rural development and promotion of agricultural products
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F2Article 5fa
F7Selection procedure
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F2Sub-section 3Common rules
F2Article 5gEligible costs
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F2Section 2Restructuring and conversion of vineyards
F2Article 6F8Ineligible operations
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F2Article 6aF5Replanting for health or phytosanitary reasons
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F2Article 7Procedure and applications
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F2Article 8F8Levels of support
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F2Article 9Financial management
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F2Article 10F9Transitional measures
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F2Article 10aF10Compatibility and consistency
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F2Section 3Green harvesting
F2Article 11Definition of green harvesting
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F2Article 12Conditions for the implementation of green harvesting
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F2Article 13Application procedure
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F2Article 14Compensation
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F2Section 4Mutual funds
F2Article 15Level of the aid
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F2Section 5Harvest insurance
F2Article 16Conditions of eligibility
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F2Section 6Investments
F2Article 17Eligible measures
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F2Article 18Eligible measures for the development of new products
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F2Article 19F11Financial management
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F2Article 20F12Compatibility and consistency
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F2Section 6aF5Innovation
F2Article 20aEligible operations
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F2Article 20bDemarcation with rural development and other legal regimes and financial instruments
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F2Article 20c
F7Financial management
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Section 7Disposal of by-products
F1Article 21F1Fixing a minimum percentage of alcohol
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F1Article 22Disposal of by-products
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F1Article 23Disposal with by-product distillation
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F2Article 24F2Purpose of the aid
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F2Article 25Amount of the aid
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F2Article 25aF10Verification of conditions
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F9Section 8F9Potable alcohol distillation
F9Article 26Purpose of the aid
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F9Article 27Amount of the aid
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F9Section 9Crisis distillation
F9Article 28Definition of the measure
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F9Article 29Modalities of the aid
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F9Article 30Amount of the aid
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F9Article 31National aid
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F9Section 10Use of concentrated grape must
F9Article 32Purpose of the aid
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F9Article 33Amount of the aid
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F9Article 34Checks
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F2CHAPTER IIIReporting, evaluation and general provisions
F2Article 35Reporting and evaluation
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F2Article 36Exclusion
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F2Article 37Payment delay to beneficiaries
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F2Article 37aF13Communication related to State aid
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F2Article 37bF14Communication related to advances
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TITLE IIITRADE WITH THIRD COUNTRIES
CHAPTER IEntry price arrangements for grape juice and must
F1Article 38F1Definition
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F1Article 39Verification by consignment
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F1CHAPTER IICertificates and analysis reports for wine, grape juice and must on import
F1Section 1General
F1Article 40Documents required
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F1Article 41Contents of the analysis report
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F1Article 42Exemptions
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F1Section 2Requirements 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 43V I 1 document
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F1Article 44Description of documents
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F1Article 45Simplified procedure
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F1Article 45aF14Electronic document
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F1Article 46Derogations
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F1Article 47Use
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F1Article 48List of competent bodies
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F1Article 49Indirect imports
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F1Article 50Special rules for particular wines
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F1Article 51Conformity of imported wines
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F1CHAPTER IIISpecific provisions on exports
F1Article 52Notification of official bodies
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F1CHAPTER IVTransitional provisions
F1Article 53V I 1 and V I 2 conformity
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F1Article 54Release of security
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TITLE IVPRODUCTION POTENTIAL
CHAPTER IUnlawful plantings
Article 55Penalties in case of non-compliance with the grubbing-up obligation
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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:
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basic financial penalty to be imposed shall be at least EUR 12 000/ha;
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Member States may increase the penalty based on the commercial value of the wines produced in the vineyards concerned.
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Member States shall impose the penalty referred to in Article 85(3) of Regulation (EC) No 479/2008:
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for unlawful plantings existing at the time of the entry into force of this Regulation for the first time on 1 January 2009;
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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 56Penalties 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:
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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
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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.
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Member States shall impose the penalties referred to in paragraph 1:
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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);
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in case of failure to comply with the rules about green harvesting, on 1 September of the calendar year concerned.
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Penalties collected within the meaning of this Article shall be retained by the Member State concerned.
Article 57Non-circulation or distillation
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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:
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distillation at the exclusive expense of the producer;
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green harvesting in accordance with the definition of Article 12(1) of Regulation (EC) No 479/2008, at the expense of the producer concerned;
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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.
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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 58Communications
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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 59Reductions 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 IITransitional planting right regime
F2Article 60F2New planting rights
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F15Article 61Member 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 62F2Grubbing up without generation of replanting right
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F2Article 63Anticipated replanting rights
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F2Article 64Transfers of replanting rights
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Article 65Reserves of planting rights
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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 :
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the planting rights allocated to the reserves;
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the planting rights granted from the reserve against or without payment.
F2Article 66F2Maintenance of the planting rights system
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F9CHAPTER IIIF9Grubbing-up scheme
F9Article 67Eligibility
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F9Article 68Exemption reasons
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F9Article 69Premium level
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F9Article 70Application procedure
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F9Article 71Procedure in case of application of a single percentage for acceptance
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F9Article 72Payment of the premium
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F9Article 73Communications
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CHAPTER IVInventory and measurement of the area planted
F1Article 74F1F15Inventory
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F2Article 75F2Area planted
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TITLE VCONTROLS IN THE WINE SECTOR
CHAPTER IPrinciples of control
F2Article 76F2Checks
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F2Article 77General principles
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F2Article 78On-the-spot checks
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F2Article 79Selection of the control sample
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F2Article 80Control report
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F2Article 81F16Control related to the production potential and to the operations of restructuring and conversion of vineyards
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F2Article 82Control bodies
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F1Article 83F1Powers of control officials
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F1CHAPTER IIAssistance between control bodies
F1Article 84Assistance on request
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F1Article 85Unsolicited assistance
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F1Article 86Common provisions
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F1CHAPTER IIIAnalytical databank
F1Article 87Purpose of the databank
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F1Article 88Samples
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F1Article 89
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F1Article 90Communication of results
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F1Article 91Compliance with procedures
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F1CHAPTER IVCollection of samples for control purposes
F1Article 92Request for collection of samples
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F1Article 93Costs of collection, dispatch and analysis of samples
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F1CHAPTER VGeneral provisions
F1Article 94Conclusive force
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F1Article 95Persons subject to controls
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F1Article 95aF17Coordination of controls and access to information
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TITLE VIGENERAL, TRANSITIONAL AND FINAL PROVISIONS
F2Article 96F2Payments to beneficiaries
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F2Article 97Recovery of undue payments
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F1Article 98F1National sanctions
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F1Article 99Artificially created situations
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F1Article 100F18Communications and notifications
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F1Article 101Obvious errors
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F1Article 102
Force majeure
and exceptional circumstances
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Article 103Repeal 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;
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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 104Entry 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.