Article 1

The following article is inserted in Chapter IV of Regulation (EC) No 110/2008:

‘Derogation from nominal quantities requirements in Directive 2007/45/EC

Article 24a

By way of derogation from Article 3 of Directive 2007/45/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council^f1, and from the sixth row of section 1 of the Annex to that Directive, single distilled shochu ^f2 produced by pot still and bottled in Japan, may be placed on the Union market in nominal quantities of 720 ml and 1 800 ml.’.