Annex

Annex I A to Regulation (EC) No 606/2009 is amended as follows:

1. (1)

   in the table, the following row 56 is added:

   1		2	3
   Oenological practice		Conditions of use	Limits on use Applications
   ‘56	Use of malolactic fermentation activators	Under the conditions laid down in Appendix 22’

2. (2)

   the following Appendix 22 is added:

   ‘Appendix 22

   Malolactic fermentation activators

   The purpose is to add malolactic fermentation activators at the end or after the alcoholic fermentation to facilitate malolactic fermentation.

   Promote the initiation, kinetics or completion of malolactic fermentation:

   1. (a)

      by enriching the environment with nutrients and growth factors for acid lactic bacterias;

   2. (b)

      by the adsorption of some bacteria inhibitors.

   Prescriptions

   1. (a)

      Activators are microcrystalline cellulose or products derived from the degradation of yeasts (autolysates, inactivated yeasts, yeast walls).

   2. (b)

      Activators can be added to wine or fermenting wine before or during malolactic fermentation.

   3. (c)

      The activators do not have to induce to organoleptic deviations in wine.

   4. (d)

      Malolactic fermentation activators must comply with the specifications prescribed by the International Oenological Codex published by the OIV. If the activators are microcrystalline cellulose they must comply with the specifications laid down in the Annex to Commission Regulation (EU) No 231/2012^f1.