The Alcoholic Beverages (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2023

Amendment of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/33

3.—(1) Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/33 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards applications for protection of designations of origin, geographical indications and traditional terms in the wine sector, the objection procedure, restrictions of use, amendments to product specifications, cancellation of protection, and labelling and presentation(1) is amended as follows.

(2) In Article 44 (actual alcoholic strength)—

(a) after the first paragraph insert—

“In relation to a product marketed in Wales to which the first paragraph applies, that paragraph is to be read as if for ‘in percentage units or half units’ there were substituted ‘to not more than one decimal place’.”;

(b) after the third paragraph (taking into account the paragraph inserted by sub-paragraph (a)) insert—

“In relation to a product marketed in Wales to which the third paragraph applies, the first sentence of that paragraph is to be read as if at the end there were inserted ‘or the figure may be followed by ‘%alc/vol’.”

(3) After Article 50(1) (name of wine grape variety) insert—

“1b.   In relation to a grapevine product marketed in Wales to which paragraph 1(a)(ii) applies, the first subparagraph of point (ii) is to be read as if, in the words before the first indent, for ‘100 %’ there were substituted ‘at least 95%’.”

(1)

EUR 2019/33, amended by S.I. 2020/1637; there are other amending instruments but none are relevant.