# Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2018/273 of 11 December 2017 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the scheme of authorisations for vine plantings, the vineyard register, accompanying documents and certification, the inward and outward register, compulsory declarations, notifications and publication of notified information, and supplementing Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the relevant checks and penalties, amending Commission Regulations (EC) No 555/2008, (EC) No 606/2009 and (EC) No 607/2009 and repealing Commission Regulation (EC) No 436/2009 and Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/560, Division 2.1: Indications referring to thedescription of the product

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

(a)Type of product
Indicate the type of product using an expression conforming to rules in retained EU law which gives the most accurate description of the product, e.g.: wine with PDO or PGI/wine without PDO or PGI/varietal wine without PDO/PGI/grape must for wine with PDO or PGI/vintage wine without PDO/PGI.
(b)Bulk transport
For the bulk transport of the wines referred to in paragraphs 1 to 9, 15 and 16 of Part II of Annex VII to Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013, the product description shall contain the optional particulars set out in Article 120 of that Regulation provided that they are shown on the labelling or that it is planned to show them on the labelling.
(c)Alcoholic strength and density
For the transport of products in bulk or in unlabelled containers with a nominal volume of not more than 60 litres:
(i)the actual alcoholic strength of the wine, excluding new wines still in fermentation, or the total alcoholic strength of new wine still in fermentation and part-fermented grape must shall be expressed in % volume and 10ths of % volume;
(ii)the refractive index of grape must shall be obtained by the measuring method set down in Section 2 of Annex A to Volume 1 of the 2019 Edition of the Compendium of International Methods of Wines and Musts Analysis published in Paris in January 2019 by the International Organisation of Vine and Wine (‘the OIV Compendium’) as that Compendium stands on IP completion day. It must be expressed by the potential alcoholic strength in % volume. This may be replaced by the density expressed in grams per cm3;
(iii)the density of fresh grape must with fermentation arrested by the addition of alcohol must be expressed in grams per cm3 and the actual alcoholic strength of that product must be expressed in % volume and tenths of % volume;
(iv)the sugar content of concentrated grape must, rectified concentrated grape must and concentrated grape juice must be expressed by the content in grams, per litre and per kilogram, of total sugars;
(v)the actual alcoholic strength of grape marc and of wine lees may also be indicated (optional) and expressed in litres of pure alcohol per decitonne.
The information required by points (ii), (iii) and (iv) of the first subparagraph must be expressed in a way that takes into account any relevant provisions in the tables that apply to the measuring method for the evaluation by refractometry of the sugar concentration in grape musts, concentrated grape musts and rectified concentrated grape musts in Section 2 of Annex A to the OIV Compendium as that Compendium stands on IP completion day.
(d)Tolerances
Without prejudice to provisions in retained EU law laying down limits for certain wine products, the following tolerances shall be allowed:
(i)as regards total or actual alcoholic strength, a tolerance of ± 0,2 % volume;
(ii)as regards density, a tolerance of six units more or less to the fourth decimal place (± 0,0006);
(iii)as regards the sugar content, ± 3 %.
(e)Other indications for the carriage of products in bulk:
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(ii)Operations performed
The operations which the products transported have undergone shall be indicated, using the following figures in brackets:
0the product has undergone none of the following operations;
1the product has been enriched;
2the product has been acidified;
3the product has been de-acidified;
4the product has been sweetened;
5the product has been fortified for distillation;
6a product originating in a geographical unit other than that indicated in the description has been added to the product;
7a product obtained from a vine variety other than that indicated in the description has been added to the product;
8a product harvested during a year other than that indicated in the description has been added to the product;
9the product has been made using oak chips;
10the product has been made on the basis of experimental use of a new oenological practice;
11the alcohol content of the product has been corrected;
12other operations, to be specified. ...
Indications regarding ... the operations performed must be given in addition to those regarding the description of the product and within the same field of vision.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2018/273/annex/V/division/B/division/2/division/2.1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2018-273/annex-V/division-B/division-2/division-2.1
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