Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 52/2013 (repealed)Show full title

Article 1

Annex XIb to Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 is amended as follows:

1.

Point 8(a) is replaced by the following:

‘(a)

obtained from wine, new wine still in fermentation, grape must or grape must in fermentation in so far as these products have a total alcohol strength of at least 9 % vol;’.

2.

Point 9(a) is replaced by the following:

‘(a)

obtained from wine, new wine still in fermentation, grape must or grape must in fermentation;’.

3.

Point 14 is replaced by:

‘14. Rectified concentrated grape must

‘Rectified concentrated grape must’ means:

(a)

the liquid uncaramelised product which:

(i)

is obtained by partial dehydration of grape must carried out by any authorised method other than direct heat in such a way that the figure indicated by a refractometer used according to a method to be prescribed in accordance with Article 120g at a temperature of 20 °C is not less than 61,7 %;

(ii)

has undergone authorised treatment for de-acidification and elimination of constituents other than sugar;

(iii)

has the following characteristics:

• a pH of not more than 5 at 25 °Brix,

• an optical density at 425 nm for a thickness of 1 cm of not more than 0,100 in grape must concentrated at 25 °Brix,

• a sucrose content undetectable by a method of analysis to be defined,

• a Folin-Ciocalteu index of not more than 6,00 at 25 °Brix,

• a titratable acidity of not more than 15 millequivalents per kilogram of total sugars,

• a sulphur dioxide content of not more than 25 milligrams per kilogram of total sugars,

• a total cation content of not more than 8 millequivalents per kilogram of total sugars,

• a conductivity at 25 °Brix and 20 °C of not more than 120 micro-Siemens/cm,

• a hydroxymethylfurfural content of not more than 25 milligrams per kilogram of total sugars,

• presence of mesoinositol;

(b)

the solid uncaramelised product which:

(i)

is obtained by crystallisation of liquid rectified concentrated grape must without the use of solvents;

(ii)

has undergone authorised treatment for de-acidification and elimination of constituents other than sugar;

(iii)

has the following characteristics after dilution in a solution at 25 °Brix:

• a pH of not more than 7,5,

• an optical density at 425 nm for a thickness of 1 cm of not more than 0,100,

• a sucrose content undetectable by a method of analysis to be defined,

• a Folin-Ciocalteu index of not more than 6,00,

• a titratable acidity of not more than 15 millequivalents per kilogram of total sugars,

• a sulphur dioxide content of not more than 10 milligrams per kilogram of total sugars,

• a total cation content of not more than 8 millequivalents per kilogram of total sugars,

• a conductivity at 20 °C of not more than 120 micro-Siemens/cm,

• a hydroxymethylfurfural content of not more than 25 milligrams per kilogram of total sugars,

• presence of mesoinositol.

An actual alcoholic strength of the rectified concentrated grape must of not more than 1 % volume is permissible’.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 22 January 2013.

For the Commission

The President

José Manuel Barroso