{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2006-1109/introduction",
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  "legislation": "eur/2006/1109",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 1109/2006 of 19 July 2006 derogating for the 2005/06 marketing year from Regulation (EC) No 1623/2000 as regards the final dates for delivering wine to distilleries and its distillation",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2006-1109",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 1109/2006\nof 19 July 2006\nderogating for the 2005/06 marketing year from Regulation (EC) No 1623/2000 as regards the final dates for delivering wine to distilleries and its distillation\nTHE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,\nHaving regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,\nHaving regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 of 17 May 1999 on the common organisation of the market in wine, and in particular Article 33 thereof,\nWhereas:\n(1)\nIn the context of the distillation of wine into potable alcohol as provided for by Article 29 of Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 and opened each wine year under Chapter II of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1623/2000 of 25 July 2000 laying down detailed rules for implementing Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 on the common organisation of the market in wine with regard to market mechanisms, producers are required to deliver their wine to a distillery and the distillers must in turn distil that wine before specific dates.\n(2)\nBecause of the opening of several crisis distillations towards the end of the 2004/05 wine year and the significant volumes of wine covered by contracts for the distillation of potable alcohol, the distilleries in some Member States do not have enough capacity to accept the wine involved and distil it by the deadlines laid down in Regulation (EC) No 1623/2000.\n(3)\nTo resolve the problem, the date by which wine must be delivered for distillation and the date by which wine must be distilled should be put back by two weeks.\n(4)\nThe measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Wine,\nHAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 179, 14.7.1999, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 2165/2005 (OJ L 345, 28.12.2005, p. 1)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ L 194, 31.7.2000, p. 45. Regulation as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1820/2005 (OJ L 293, 9.11.2005, p. 8)."
    }
  ],
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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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