1.Notwithstanding Article 75(2), [F2nothing in this Regulation prevents the appropriate authority in relation to England, Wales or Scotland from adopting or maintaining] rules laying down different quality levels for spreadable fats. Such rules shall allow those quality levels to be assessed on the basis of criteria relating, in particular, to the raw materials used, the organoleptic characteristics of the products and their physical and microbiological stability.
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2.[F4Nothing in this Regulation prevents the Secretary of State, provided the relevant authorities in Wales and Scotland agree, from limiting or prohibiting the use of certain oenological practices or providing for more stringent rules for wine production] with a view to reinforcing the preservation of the essential characteristics of wines with a protected designation of origin or a protected geographical indication and of sparkling wines and liqueur wines.
3.[F5The relevant authorities in England, Wales and Scotland] may allow the experimental use of unauthorised oenological practices.
[F64.In order to ensure the correct and transparent application of this Article:
(a)the appropriate authority in England, Wales or Scotland may make regulations laying down the conditions for the application of paragraph 1 of this Article;
(b)the Secretary of State may make regulations laying down the conditions for the application of paragraphs 2 and 3 of this Article, as well as the conditions for the holding, circulation and use of the products obtained from the experimental practices referred to in paragraph 3 of this Article.]
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Textual Amendments
F1Word in Art. 83 heading omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Common Organisation of the Markets in Agricultural Products Framework (Miscellaneous Amendments, etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/821), regs. 1, 29(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F2Words in Art. 83(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Common Organisation of the Markets in Agricultural Products Framework (Miscellaneous Amendments, etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/821), regs. 1, 29(b)(i) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1453, reg. 9(9)(a)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F3Words in Art. 83(1) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Common Organisation of the Markets in Agricultural Products Framework (Miscellaneous Amendments, etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/821), regs. 1, 29(b)(ii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F4Words in Art. 83(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Common Organisation of the Markets in Agricultural Products Framework (Miscellaneous Amendments, etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/821), regs. 1, 29(c) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1453, reg. 9(9)(b)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F5Words in Art. 83(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Common Organisation of the Markets in Agricultural Products Framework (Miscellaneous Amendments, etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/821), regs. 1, 29(d) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1453, reg. 9(9)(c)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F6Art. 83(4) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Agriculture (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/831), regs. 1(4)(a), 22 (as amended by S.I. 2020/1453, reg. 12(7)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)