CHAPTER IIRULES ON THE USE OF COMPOUND TERMS AND ALLUSIONS

Article 3Compound terms

1

The term ‘spirit drink’ shall not be part of a compound term describing an alcoholic beverage.

2

A compound term describing an alcoholic beverage shall not consist of a combination of the term ‘liqueur’ with the name of one of the categories 33 to 40 of Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 110/2008.

3

A compound term shall not replace the sales denomination of a spirit drink.

4

The compound term describing an alcoholic beverage shall appear in uniform characters of the same font, size and colour. It shall not be interrupted by any textual or pictorial element which does not form part of it and shall not appear in a larger font size than that of the sales denomination.