Any mixture with ethyl alcohol of bodies belonging to the chemical family of alcohols or having an alcohol chemical function, likely to replace ethyl alcohol in any of its uses when this mixture is intended for human consumption or presents dangers to public health, is prohibited.
The harvest, production and stock declarations provided for in the European regulations adopted for the application of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 on the common organisation of the markets in agricultural products and repealing Council Regulations (EEC) No 922/72, (EEC) No 234/79, (EC) No 1037/2001 and (EC) No 1234/2007 are compulsory and subscribed to the competent authority by the…
The designation of “vin doux naturel” is reserved for wines whose production is traditional and customary: Vinified directly by the harvesting producers and made exclusively from their harvests of muscat, grenache, macabéo or malvoisie; however, harvests obtained from plots planted with up to 10% of the total number of vines with grape varieties other than the four designated above are allowed; Obtained within the limit of a yield of 40…
For tax purposes, the sweet natural wines referred to in article 416, liqueur wines with a protected designation of origin, whose production is traditional and customary and which, subject to being subject to a control system offering guarantees equivalent to those required for natural sweet wines as regards the conditions of their production and marketing, have the following characteristics: – have been produced directly by the harvesting producers from their…
1° (Repealed) 2° The product of the fermentation of fresh grape marc with water and sugar is considered to be sugar wine.
The manufacture, circulation and possession of piquettes or sugar wines are prohibited.
Marc wines, sugar wines, piquettes and other wines that do not comply with the provisions of the Community regulations on the common organisation of the wine market, seized from the producer of these wines or the merchant, must be processed into alcohol after payment of their value or destroyed. Pending resolution of the dispute, the accused is required to keep the goods intact free of charge.
Infringements of the laws and regulations relating to the organisation of the wine market, the obligations laid down for wines leaving the estate and the measures taken to improve wine quality are recorded and prosecuted in the same way as for indirect taxes.
It is forbidden to manufacture, dispatch, sell, offer for sale or hold with a view to sale, under the name of wine, cider, perry or mead, products that do not meet the definition given, for wine, by Council Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 of 17 May 1999, for other drinks by the decrees in the Council of State taken for the application of Articles L. 212-1 à L. 215-5, L. 215-7…
Holders of agricultural warrants on alcohol or wine may ask the administration agents to grant only with their approval the documents mentioned in 4° of article L. 311-39 of the code of taxes on goods and services allowing the movement of these beverages. If the warrants are not reimbursed at maturity, the holders may, in addition, themselves request the movement titles necessary for the removal of the warranted products.
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