Aromatised wines, aromatised wine-based drinks and aromatised wine-product cocktails: definition, description and presentation

PURPOSE: recast of Regulation (EEC) No 1601/91 laying down the general rules on the definition, description and presentation of aromatised wines, aromatised wine-based drinks and aromatised wine-product cocktails.

PROPOSED ACT: Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council

CONTENT: the codification of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1601/91 of 10 June 1991 laying down general rules on the definition, description and presentation of aromatised wines, aromatised wine-based drinks and aromatised wine-product cocktails. The new Regulation was to have superseded the various acts incorporated in it.

In the meantime, Council Decision 1999/468/EC laying down the procedures for the exercise of implementing powers conferred on the Commission (comitology) has been amended by Decision 2006/512/EC, which introduced a regulatory procedure with scrutiny for measures of general scope designed to amend nonessential elements of a basic instrument adopted in accordance with the co-decision procedure.

In accordance with the joint statement of the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on Decision 2006/512/EC, for this new procedure to be applicable to instruments adopted in accordance with the co-decision procedure which are already in force, those instruments must be adjusted in accordance with the applicable procedures.

It is therefore appropriate to transform the codification of Regulation (EEC) No 1601/91 into a recast in order to incorporate the amendments necessary for the adjustment to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny.