Article 19a InterpretationF1

‘a competent authority of a member State’ means a competent authority in a member State responsible for carrying out checks relating to the documents accompanying wine imported into the European Union pursuant to 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 and cognate expressions are to be construed accordingly;

‘GB Annex 15 wine’ means a wine that:

‘the OIV Compendium’ means the 2021 Edition of the Compendium of International Methods of Analysis of Wines and Musts in two volumes (ISBN 978-2-85038-034-1 and ISBN 978-2-85038-033-4) published by the International Organisation of Vine and Wine in Paris;

a wine is a wine ‘produced in Great Britain’ if it would be regarded as such applying the definition of ‘wine produced in’ in Article 1(2) (definitions) of Annex 15 to the TCA but with that definition being applied as if for ‘the exporting Party’ there was substituted ‘Great Britain’.