On Monday a new European Union mechanism to facilitate and simplify
changes to the regulations governing Denominaciones de Origen under the Treaty of
Lisbon came into force. The Reglamento Delegado UE 2019/33 and the
corresponding Reglamento de Ejecución UE 2019/34 (as they are known in
Spanish) regulate the procedures connected to DOP and IGP wines, such as
registration, opposition, modification and cancellation, in terms of their
traditional mentions as well as certain dispositions concerning presentation
and labelling.
These regulations substitute
those of the European Commission which has up till now regulated these
dispositions, most of which have been protected. The great advantage of these
newly approved and published regulations is that they establish a new mechanism
for the modification of the regulations governing each DO which will speed up,
modernise and shorten the process and give more decision-making power to
individual member states.
The organisation which represents
the Spanish DOs, the Conferencia Española de Consejos Reguladores Vitivinícolas
(CECRV) and the European Federation of Origin Wines (EFOW) which represents
European DOs at the EU, have been closely following the process of developing
the new regulations and the CECRV is very pleased with the result since it
allows DOs to adapt more rapidly to the needs of the markets, both national and
international and better respond to environmental and other challenges. All this will hopefully be of
great help to the Consejo Regulador in Jerez as it considers important changes
to the DO to include white table wines and the amalgamation of the Zona de
Producción
with the Zona de Crianza.
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