The Wine (Revocation and Consequential Provision) Regulations 2023

These Regulations may be cited as the Wine (Revocation and Consequential Provision) Regulations 2023.

These Regulations come into force on 1st January 2024.

In these Regulations—

These Regulations extend to the United Kingdom, subject to the following provisions of this regulation.

Subject to paragraph (3), any amendment or revocation of a provision in an enactment has the same extent as the provision amended or revoked.

The amendments and revocations made by regulations 3(2) and 4(2), Schedule 1 and Part 2 of Schedule 2 extend to England and Wales only and apply in England only.

In Regulation (EU) No1308/2013, in Article 93(1) (definitions for the purpose of Section 2 of Chapter 1 of Title 2 of Part 2 of Regulation (EU) No1308/2013)—

The secondary retained EU law listed in column (1) of the Table in Schedule 1 is revoked to the extent specified in column (2) of that Table in relation to specified products wherever produced.

Part 1 of Schedule 2 contains an amendment consequential on the omissions made by regulation 3(1).

The secondary retained EU law specified in Part 2 of Schedule 2 is amended (in consequence of the omissions made by regulation 3(2) as read with Schedule 1) in relation to specified products wherever produced.

Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2018/273 is amended as follows.

In Article 2(2) (definition of “producer”) omit “, with the exception of Article 47,”.

Omit Article 29(3)(f) (operations to be recorded in inward and outward registers kept by operators: production of fortifying wine for distillation).

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/274 of 11 December 2017 laying down rules for the application of Regulation (EU) No1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the scheme of authorisations for vine plantings, certification, the inward and outward register, compulsory declarations and notifications, and of Regulation (EU) No1306/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the relevant checks^f1 is amended as follows.

Omit Article 1(b) (subject matter).

In Article 1a (the competent authorities) omit “the issue of permits under Article 12(3) and”.

Omit Chapter 3 (certification of wine products).

Omit Article 14(1)(b)(vii) (products to be entered in inward and outward registers kept by operators: by-products).

Omit Article 18(2) (information to be included in inward and outward registers kept by operators: withdrawn products).

Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/33 is amended as follows.

In Article 46 (indication of bottler, producer, importer and vendor)—

Omit Article 49(2) (certification of certain grapevine products that bear an indication of their vintage year on their label).

In Article 50(2) (certification of certain grapevine products that bear an indication of the variety of grape used to produce them on their label) omit the first subparagraph.

In Article 51(1) (specific rules for the indication of wine grape varieties on grapevine products that do not bear a protected designation of origin or geographical indication) omit the words from “and provided” to “with”.

Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/934 is amended as follows.

In Article 7(1) (definition of “coupage”) omit the words from “referred” to “1308/2013”.

Omit Article 11 (general rules applicable to the enrichment, acidification and deacidification of products other than wine).

Omit Article 13 (fixing a minimum percentage of alcohol for by-products).

Omit Article 14 (disposal of by-products).

In Annex 1, in Part A (authorised oenological practices) omit “and Article 11 of this Regulation” in—