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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-934/article-4",
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  "legislation": "eur/2019/934",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/934 of 12 March 2019 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards wine-growing areas where the alcoholic strength may be increased, authorised oenological practices and restrictions applicable to the production and conservation of grapevine products, the minimum percentage of alcohol for by-products and their disposal, and publication of OIV files",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-934",
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  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Experimental use of new oenological practices",
  "text": "1. For experimental purposes, referred to in Article 83(3) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013, the appropriate authority may, on application, authorise, in particular cases, by administrative decision the use of certain oenological practices or processes not provided for in that Regulation or in this Regulation, for a maximum of five years, on condition that:\n(a) the practices and processes concerned meet the requirements of the third subparagraph of Article 80(1) ... of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 and in regulations made under section 9 of the Agriculture (Retained EU Law and Data) (Scotland) Act 2020;\n(b) such practices and processes are applied to quantities not exceeding 50 000 hectolitres per year for any one experiment;\n(c) the appropriate authority concerned informs the other appropriate authorities at the beginning of the experiment of the terms of each authorisation;\n(d) the processes shall be entered on the accompanying document referred to in Article 147(1) and in the register referred to in Article 147(2) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013.\n‘Experiment’ means an operation or operations carried out in the context of a well-defined research project with a single experimental protocol.\n2. The products obtained by the experimental use of such oenological practices and processes may be placed on the market of a constituent nation other than the constituent nation concerned provided the appropriate authority authorising the experiment gives prior notification to the appropriate authority of the constituent nation of destination of the terms of the authorisation and the quantities involved.\n3. Within a period of three months following the end of the period referred to in paragraph 1, the appropriate authority concerned shall forward to the other appropriate authorities a report on the authorised experiment and the results thereof. ...\n4. Depending on these results, the appropriate authority that authorised the experiment may apply to the other appropriate authorities for authorisation to continue the experiment, possibly with a larger quantity of products than in the original experiment, for a further maximum period of three years. The applicant must submit appropriate supporting information with the application.An application for authorisation to continue an experiment must be approved by the other appropriate authorities.\n5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
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  "version": "current",
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      "text": "Words in Art. 4(1)(a) omitted: (E.) (1.12.2022) by virtue of The Common Organisation of the Markets in Agricultural Products (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1150), regs. 1(2), 10(2); (W.) (14.12.2022) by virtue of The Common Organisation of the Markets in Agricultural Products (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1215), regs. 1(2), 7(2); and (S.) (2.2.2023) by virtue of The Agriculture (Retained EU Law and Data) (Scotland) Act 2020 (Consequential Modifications) and Agricultural Products, Aquatic Animal Health and Genetically Modified Organisms (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.S.I. 2022/361), regs. 1, 11(2)(a)"
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