CHAPTER IV

LABELLING AND PRESENTATION
SECTION 1

Compulsory particulars

Indication of the bottler, producer, importer and vendor
Article 56
1
For the purposes of the application of Article 59(1)(e) and (f) of Regulation (EC) No 479/2008 and of this Article:
a
‘bottler’ means a natural or legal person or a group of such persons carrying out bottling or having bottling carried out on their behalf;
b
‘bottling’ means putting the product concerned in containers of a capacity not exceeding 60 litres for subsequent sale;
c
‘producer’ means a natural or legal person or a group of such persons by whom or on whose behalf the processing of the grapes, grape musts and wine into sparkling wines, aerated sparkling wine, quality sparkling wine or quality aromatic sparkling wines is carried out;
d
‘importer’ means a natural or legal person or group of such persons established within the Community assuming responsibility for bringing into circulation non-Community goods within the meaning of Article 4(8) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92 ;
e
‘vendor’ means a natural or legal person or a group of such persons, not covered by the definition of producer, purchasing and then putting sparkling wines, aerated sparkling wine, quality sparkling wine or quality aromatic sparkling wines into circulation;
f
‘address’ means the indications of the local administrative area and the Member State in which the head office of the bottler, producer, vendor or importer is situated.
2
The name and address of the bottler shall be supplemented either,
a
by the words ‘bottler’ or ‘bottled by (…)’; or
b
by terms, whose conditions of use are defined by Member States, where bottling of wines with protected designation of origin or geographical indication takes place:
1. on the producer's holding; or
2. on the premises of a producer group; or
3. in an enterprise located in the demarcated geographical area or in the immediate proximity of the demarcated geographical area concerned.
In case of contract bottling, the indication of the bottler shall be supplemented by the words ‘bottled for (…)’ or, where the name, address of the person who has carried out the bottling on behalf of a third party are indicated, by the words ‘bottled for (…) by (…)’.
Where bottling takes place in another place than that of the bottler, the particulars referred to in this paragraph shall be accompanied by a reference to the exact place where the operation took place and, if it is carried out in another Member State, the name of that State.
In case of containers other than bottles, the words ‘packager’ and ‘packaged by (…)’ shall replace the words ‘bottler’ and ‘bottled by (…)’ respectively, except when the language used does not indicate by itself such a difference.
3
The name and address of the producer or vendor shall be supplemented by the words ‘producer’ or ‘produced by’ and ‘vendor’ or ‘sold by’, or equivalent. Member States may make compulsory the indication of the producer.
4
The name and address of the importer shall be preceded by the words ‘importer’ or ‘imported by (…)’.
5
The indications referred to in paragraphs 2, 3 and 4 can be grouped together, if they concern the same natural or legal person.
One of these indications may be replaced by a code determined by the Member State in which the bottler, producer, importer or vendor has its head office. The code shall be supplemented by a reference to the Member State in question. The name and address of another natural or legal person involved in the commercial distribution other than the bottler, producer, importer or vendor indicated by a code shall also appear on the wine label of the product concerned.
6
Where the name or the address of the bottler, producer, importer or vendor consists of or contains a protected designation of origin or geographical indication, it shall appear on the label:
a
in characters which are no more than half the size of those used either for the protected designation of origin or geographical indications or for the designation of the category of the grapevine product concerned; or
b
by using a code as provided for in paragraph 5, second sub-paragraph.
Member States may decide which option applies to products produced in their territories.
OJ L 302, 19.10.1992, p. 1.