1.Competent authorities of Member States or third countries or representative professional organisations established in third countries may submit to the Commission an application for protection of traditional terms within the meaning of Article 54(1) of Regulation (EC) No 479/2008.
2.‘Representative professional organisation’ shall mean any producer organisation or association of producer organisations having adopted the same rules, operating in a given or more wine designation of origin or geographical indication area(s) where it includes in its membership at least two thirds of the producers in the designation of origin or geographical indication area(s) in which it operates and accounts for at least two thirds of that areas’ production. A representative professional organisation may lodge an application for protection only for wines which it produces.
1. The application for protection of a traditional term shall be communicated by the competent authorities of the Member States or those of the third countries or by the representative trade organisations in accordance with Article 70a(1). The application shall be accompanied by the legislation of the Member States or rules applicable to wine producers in third countries governing the use of the term in question and the reference to that legislation or those rules.
2. In the case of a request submitted by a representative trade organisation established in a third country, the applicant shall communicate to the Commission the information regarding the representative trade organisation and its members, in accordance with Article 70a(1). The Commission shall make this information public.]
Textual Amendments
F1 Substituted by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 670/2011 of 12 July 2011 amending Regulation (EC) No 607/2009 laying down certain detailed rules for the implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No 479/2008 as regards protected designations of origin and geographical indications, traditional terms, labelling and presentation of certain wine sector products.
1.The term to be protected shall be either:
(a)in the official language(s), regional language(s) of the Member State or third country where the term originates; or
(b)in the language used in commerce for this term.
The term used in a certain language shall refer to specific products referred to in Article 33(1) of Regulation (EC) No 479/2008.
2.The term shall be registered with its original spelling(s).
1. The definition of traditional terms provided for in Article 118u(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 shall apply mutatis mutandis to terms traditionally used in third countries for wine products covered by geographical indications or names of origin under the legislation of those third countries.
2. Wines originating in third countries whose labels bear traditional indications other than the traditional terms listed in the electronic database ‘ E-Bacchus ’ may use these traditional indications on wine labels in accordance with the rules applicable in the third countries concerned, including those emanating from representative professional organisations.]
Textual Amendments
F2 Substituted by Commission Regulation (EU) No 538/2011 of 1 June 2011 amending Regulation (EC) No 607/2009 laying down certain detailed rules for the implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No 479/2008 as regards protected designations of origin and geographical indications, traditional terms, labelling and presentation of certain wine sector products.