Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations, which come into force on 1st April 1999, amend for the third time the Common Agricultural Policy (Wine) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/696) (“the principal Regulations”) which provide for the enforcement of EC Regulations concerned with the production and marketing of wine and related products.
These Regulations–
revise and bring up to date Schedules 1 and 2 to the principal Regulations so as to include references to relevant EC Regulations which have been adopted since the coming into force of the second amending Regulations (S.I. 1998/453) (regulations 3 to 8);
add the varieties “Phoenix” and “Regent” to the list of vine varieties for producing table wine, contained in Schedule 3 to the principal Regulations (regulation 9).
No Regulatory Impact Assessment has been prepared in respect of these Regulations.