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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/common-agricultural-policy-wine-scotland-regulations-2002/note",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2002/325",
  "legislation_title": "The Common Agricultural Policy (Wine) (Scotland) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/common-agricultural-policy-wine-scotland-regulations-2002",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations, which extend to Scotland only, provide for the enforcement of EC Regulations (as specified in Schedules 6 and 9) concerned with the production and marketing of wine and related products.\nThe Regulations–\n(i) designate authorities for the purposes of enforcement (regulation 3);\n(ii) define “medium dry” for the purposes of labelling and description (regulation 4);\n(iii) specify the vine varieties classified for the production of wine in Scotland (regulation 5 and Schedule 10);\n(iv) specify conditions for the use of geographical indications for the designation of table wine (regulation 6 and Schedule 10);\n(v) provide for powers of inspection and enforcement (regulation 7);\n(vi) authorise controls on the movement of wine-sector products (regulations 8 and 9 and Schedule 9);\n(vii) provide for reviews of prohibitions etc. on movement of wine-sector products (regulations 10 and 11);\n(viii) relieve authorised officers of personal liability for acts done by them in the purported exercise of functions conferred by these Regulations (regulation 12);\n(ix) confer on courts before which proceedings are brought powers in relation to the analysis and examination of samples (regulation 13);\n(x) prescribe offences and penalties and provide defences (regulations 14 to 18); and\n(xi) revoke the Common Agricultural Police (Wine) Regulations 1996 as amended (regulation 19).\nNo Regulatory Impact Assessment has been prepared in respect of these Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2002/325/note",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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