{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2015-210/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2015-210/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2015/210",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EU) 2015/210 of 10 February 2015 amending Annexes II and III to Regulation (EC) No 110/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the definition, description, presentation, labelling and the protection of geographical indications of spirit drinks",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2015-210",
  "path": "article/1",
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  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Annexes II and III to Regulation (EC) No 110/2008 are amended as follows:\n(1) in Annex II, after point 37 Sloe gin, the following point 37a is inserted:\n‘37a\n“Sloe-aromatised spirit drink or Pacharán”\nSloe-aromatised spirit drink or Pacharán is a spirit drink:\n(a) which has a predominant sloe taste and is obtained by the maceration of sloes (Prunus spinosa) in ethyl alcohol of agricultural origin, with the addition of natural extracts of anise and/or distillates of anise;\n(b) which has a minimum alcoholic strength by volume of 25 %;\n(c) for the production of which a minimum quantity of 125 grams of sloe fruits per litre of final product has been used;\n(d) which has sugar content, expressed as invert sugar between 80 and 250 grams per litre of the final product;\n(e) the organoleptic characteristics, colour and taste of which are provided exclusively by the fruit used and the anise.\nThe term “Pacharán” may be used as a sales denomination only when the product is manufactured in Spain. When the product is manufactured outside Spain, “Pacharán” may only be used to supplement the sales denomination “Sloe-aromatised spirit drink”, provided that it is accompanied by the words: “produced in …”, followed by the name of the Member State or third country of the manufacture;’\n(2) Annex III is amended as follows:\n(a) in the product category ‘Other spirit drinks’, the following entries are deleted:\n‘\nPacharán navarro\nSpain\nPacharán\nSpain\n’\n(b) after the product category 34, the following entry is inserted:\n‘\n37a.\nSloe-aromatised spirit drink or Pacharán\nPacharán navarro\nSpain\n’",
  "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/2015/210/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:46:53.369693+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."
}