{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2000-2870/annex/division-I/division-2/division-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2000-2870/annex/division-I/division-2/division-4.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2000/2870",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 2870/2000 of 19 December 2000 laying down Community reference methods for the analysis of spirits drinks",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2000-2870",
  "path": "annex/division/I/division/2/division/4",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Apparatus and equipment",
  "text": "Usual laboratory apparatus and in particular the following.\n4.1. Water bath capable of being maintained at 10 °C to 15 °C.\nWater bath capable of being maintained at 20 °C (± 0,2 °C).\n4.2. Class A volumetric flasks, 100 ml and 200 ml, that have been certified to 0,1 % and 0,15 % respectively.\n4.3. Distillation apparatus:\n4.3.1.\nGeneral requirements\nThe distillation apparatus must meet the following specifications:\nthe number of joints must be no more than the strict minimum needed to ensure the system is leak-tight,\ninclusion of a device designed to prevent priming (entrainment of the boiling liquid by the vapour) and to regularise the distillation rate of alcohol-rich vapours,\nrapid and complete condensation of the alcohol vapours,\ncollection of the first distillation fractions in an aqueous medium.\nThe heat source must be used with a suitable heat-diffuser to prevent any pyrogenic reaction involving the extractive matter.\n4.3.2. An example of a suitable distillation apparatus is shown in Figure 1 and includes the following parts:\nround-bottomed flask, 1 litre, with a standardised ground-glass joint,\nrectifying column at least 20-cm high (a Vigreux column, for example),\nelbow connector with an approximately 10-cm-long straight-rimmed condenser (a West-type condenser) fitted vertically,\ncooling coil, 40-cm long,\ndrawn-out tube, taking the distillate to the bottom of a graduated collecting flask containing a small amount of water.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2000/2870/annex/division/I/division/2/division/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:57:07.594471+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}