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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2018-273/article-11",
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  "legislation": "eur/2018/273",
  "legislation_title": "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",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2018-273",
  "path": "article/11",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Certification of the origin or provenance, characteristics, vintage or wine grape variety and PDO or PGI",
  "text": "1. The documents referred to in paragraph 4 shall be regarded as certifying the origin or provenance, quality and characteristics of the wine product, the vintage year or the grape variety or varieties from which it is produced and, where applicable, the PDO or PGI if they comply with the conditions laid down in paragraphs 5 and 6 and Annex 5. To this effect, the consignor or an authorised person acting on behalf of the consignor shall fill in in box 17l of those documents the relevant information set out in Part I of Annex VI.\n2. The consignor shall certify the accuracy of the information required pursuant to paragraph 1 on the basis of the inward and outward register to be kept in accordance with Chapter V or the certified information in the documents accompanying the previous consignments of the product in question and official conformity checks carried out by the competent authorities in accordance with Chapter VII.\n3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4.) The documents referred to in paragraph 1 are:\n(a) a printed copy of an electronic administrative document that complies with the requirements for that document specified in HMRC Notice 197 and on which the unique administrative reference code assigned to the document is given;\n(b) a paper document of the type specified in regulation 60(2)(b) of the 2010 Regulations that complies with the requirements set out in regulation 60(2A) of the 2010 Regulations;\n(c) any other commercial document on which the unique administrative reference code is clearly stated;\n(d) in the case of the movement within Great Britain under duty suspension arrangements of wine and made-wine to which regulation 62(2) of the 2010 Regulations applies, a paper document of the type specified in regulation 62(3)(a) or (b) of the 2010 Regulations.\n(5.) Where used for the purpose specified in paragraph 1, a document referred to in paragraph 4 must include the information indicated in Section A of Annex 5 or allow the competent authorities to have access to that information.\n(6.) Where that document bears a unique administrative reference code number assigned by the computerised system, the information referred to in Section A of Annex 5 to this Regulation must be held in the system used.\n(7.) In the case of a wine product produced in Northern Ireland, a document recognised as an accompanying document for that type of product when transported in Northern Ireland or the European Union under Article 10 of EU Regulation 2018/273 certifies, as relevant, the following characteristics of the wine product to which it relates:\n(a) the origin or provenance;\n(b) the quality and characteristics of the wine product;\n(c) the vintage year;\n(d) the grape variety or varieties from which it is produced;\n(e) the PDO or PGI.\n(8.) In this Article:\n(a) ‘EU Regulation 2018/273’ means Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2018/273 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 as it has effect in Northern Ireland by virtue of section 7A of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018;\n(b) ‘the electronic administrative document’ has the meaning given in regulation 3(1) of the 2010 Regulations.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ch. 4 Section 1 revoked (E.) (1.1.2024) by The Wine (Revocation and Consequential Provision) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1362), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 11(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Agricultural Products, Food and Drink (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1637), regs. 1(7), 24(6)(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 11(1) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Agricultural Products, Food and Drink (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1637), regs. 1(7), 24(6)(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Art. 11(3) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Agricultural Products, Food and Drink (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1637), regs. 1(7), 24(6)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Art. 11(4)-(8) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Agricultural Products, Food and Drink (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1637), regs. 1(7), 24(6)(c)"
    }
  ],
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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