The Wine (Amendment) Regulations 2021

The Food (Lot Marking) Regulations 1996

2.  In the Food (Lot Marking) Regulations 1996(1), in regulation 4 (exceptions for particular types of sale and sales units)—

(a) number the existing paragraph as paragraph (1);

(b) in paragraph (1) (as numbered by paragraph (a)), after sub-paragraph (h) insert—

“(i) a sales unit of EU Annex 15 wine that complies with the provisions of Directive 2011/91/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council on indications or marks identifying the lot to which a foodstuff belongs(2), as implemented in either of the following—

(aa) the member State from which it was exported into Great Britain;

(bb) if exported from a member State into Great Britain having been labelled in a different member State, the member State in which it was so labelled.”;

(c) after paragraph (1) (as numbered by paragraph (a)) insert—

“(2) In this regulation—

(a) “EU Annex 15 wine” means wine—

(i) to which the first sentence of Article 4(3) (lot codes) of Annex 15 (trade in wine) to the Trade and Cooperation Agreement, as read with Article 1(1) (scope) of that Annex, applies, and

(ii) that is imported into Great Britain from a member State;

(b) “the Trade and Cooperation Agreement” has the same meaning as in section 37(1) of the European Union (Future Relationship) Act 2020.”.

(1)

S.I. 1996/1502, amended by S.I. 2020/1501; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant.

(2)

OJ No. L 334, 16.12.2011, p. 1.