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New EU rules for Organic WineJean-François Hulot
Head of Unit DG AGRI/H3
Nuremberg, 16 February 2012
1. Why we need organic wine rules?
• No organic wine in EU• No rules for wine-making
• since 1991
EU-Regulation for plant production
• Grapes grown organically• “wine made of organic grapes”
Situation up to now:
Vin issu de
raisins cultivés
en agriculture
biologique
Organic production
• ~ 4.7 % of EU agriculture area• ~ 1.5% of EU wine growing area
• Rapidly increasing market demand
• Imports from:• Third country list: ARG, AUS, NZ
• import authorisations: Chile,
South-Africa, US, Croatia, TR, Tunisia, Uruguay
• Imports to: DE,FI,FR,BE
Organic grape production area in hectare, ESTAT
1998 2000 2004 2008 2010
BG 154 460
CZ 38 18 201
EL 1.347 2.059 3.135 3.875
ES 13.909 17.665
FR 4.874 6.879 12.557 15.419 21.403
IT 10.705 15.594 20.867 29.532 30.341
CY 15
LU 1 1 4
HU 274 527 533
NL 20 40
PL 5 84
PT 359 551 632
RO 126 604
SI 33 53 150
SK 12 53 50
UK 14 53 52 93
15.939 24.386 36.544 65.012 75.500
European Action Plan 2004
• Political orientation paper aims to implement concrete measures (21 Actions)
• Action 10:
Complete and further harmonise the standards for organic agricultureby considering whether to establish specific standards for organic wines;
The EU legal framework
• EU regulation = uniform single standard for all operators - national rules forbidden
• Private standards may go beyond
• From 1 January 2009:
• Council Regulation 834/2007 replaces old Regulation 2092/91
• Commission Regulation 889/2008 for production, labelling and control
• Commission Regulation 1235/2008 for imports
• Logo: from 1 July 2010
The EU organic Regulation
The EU legal framework CR 834/2007
Com R 889/2008
Com R 1235/2008
Guidance
Scope, objectives, principlesand general rules
specific rules onproduction:
•Plants•Livestock•Food•Feed•Yeast •Aquaculture
detailed rules onimports
detailed rules onlabelling
detailed rules oncontrol
GuidelinesWorking document controls
Logo: user manual
• Scope: agricultural products and food including wine• Objectives and principles• Flexibility – local production • Labelling:
• > 95% organic + mandatory EU-logo + code number + indication of place of farming
• Risk-based control (OFFC)
• relevant for wine-making:• Recital 7: processed food, including wine• Article 19: production rules for processed food • Article 21: criteria for substances in processing• Article 38: new implementing rules
Council Regulation 834/2007
• Detailed plant and animal production rules, labelling, control
• Processing (Article 26): • good manufacturing practices• critical processing steps• operations and storing separated by time or place
• Use of substances in processing (Article 27(1)):• reference to Annex VIII - food additives and processing aids• ….can be used, „with the exception of wine“
Commission Regulation 889/2008
2. The new rules organic wine:
Rules for wine-making based on:
• Legal basis: Council Reg. 834/2007
• Amending Regulation of Commission Reg. 889/2008
• Definition of “organic wine”www.orwine.org
• Will apply on top of horizontal Community legislation:• Food/wine labelling• Wine market organisation
Main elements of the new rules
New Chapter 3a:
1. Scope
2. Oenological practices
3. Positive list of substances
4. Flexibility rules
5. Transition rules on labelling
Oenological practices
– Based on Reg. 606/2009 for oenological practices (status of 1.8.2010!)
– Restrictions• Heat treatment < 70°C• Filtration > 0.2μm
– Forbidden• Electrodialyses• Cryo-concentration• Cation exchangers• Physical elimination of SO2
• Partial dealcoholisation
– Revision clause – 2015• Reverse osmosis • Ion exchange resin• Heat treatment
Positive list of substances
• New Annex VIIIa:• 44 substances (out of 68 in CMO wine) permitted• No differentiation between additives and processing aids• Preferably organic raw materials (yeast, gelatine, protein,..)
• Enrichment:• only organic products (sugar, must)
• Substances not authorised in the positive list:• Ammonium bisulphite, betaglucanase, malic acid, chitosan,
calcium tartrate, chitin-glucan, polyvinylimidazole,polyvinylpolpyrrolidone, lysozyme, potassium ferrocyanide, calcium phytate, dimethylcarbonate, urease, carboxymethylcellulose,calcium alginate
Sulphur dioxide
• Lower max. level of SO2mg/l for organic wines than authorised in CMO wine:
• Wine with residual sugar content < 2 grammes/litre:
100 mg / l for red wine150 mg / l for white wine
• Other wines:minus 30 mg / l
as from conventional wine level
• Flexibility provision:• Exceptional climatic conditions
Flexibility
Article 47:• Member States may grant
to increase SO2 up to conventional level for a given harvest year if:• exceptional climatic conditions in a specific geographical area,• deteriorate sanitary status of organic grapes by severe
bacterial attacks or fungal attacks,• operators need to record, and• authorising Member State need to inform Member States and
Commission.
Transition
Article 95(10a):• for products of wine sector current practice expires on 31
July 2012
• But: Stocks of wines produced until 31 July 2012 may be sold until stocks are exhausted:• “wine made of organic grapes” • no EU-organic-logo• private organic logos allowed• specific recording obligations
3. How we did the new rules
Decision making
• Commission initiates and prepares working document based on research, inputs from technical experts
• Discussion with • Member States in Standing Committee for organic farming (SCOF)• Stakeholders in Advisory group
• Internal consultation (other units, DGs)
• TBT consultation (technical barrier to trade – WTO)
• SCOF agrees by qualified majority (8 February 2012: 296 out of 345 votes)
• Commission colleges adopt draft regulation
from “Wine made of organic grapes” Organic wine
EU logo for harvest 2012
2004 20082006 3/2010 8/20122009
EAP
ORWINE
Working paper
Legal proposal
New Regulation
Still to be done - Final translations- Adoption by the Commission- Publication in the Official Journal of the European Union
• Applicable from 1 August 2012
EU-organic-logo is not exclusive: national and private labels may be added
Organic Wine
BE-BIO-005
EU/non-EU Agriculture
23
Labelling as off 1 August 2012
Thank you for your attention !
For more information visit:
www.organic-farming.europa.eu