Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/935 of 16 April 2019 laying down rules for the application of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards analysis methods for determining the physical, chemical and organoleptic characteristics of grapevine products and notifications of Member States decisions concerning increases in natural alcoholic strength

This Regulation lays down rules for the application of Title II, Chapter I of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013, concerning analysis methods for determining the physical, chemical and organoleptic characteristics of grapevine products, and notifications of decisions by Member States allowing increases in natural alcoholic strength.

The analysis methods referred to in point (d) of Article 75(5) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 to be used for verification of the limits laid down by Union rules to the use of allyl isothiocyanate for the production of certain grapevine products are laid down in the Annex to this Regulation.

1 Member States allowing for an increase of the natural alcoholic strength by volume pursuant to point 3 of Section A of Part I of Annex VIII to Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 shall notify the Commission of this within one month following the granting of the derogation. In the notification, the Member States shall specify the regions and the varieties concerned by the decision and they shall submit data and evidence indicating that the climatic conditions have been exceptionally unfavourable in the regions concerned.

2 The notification shall be made in accordance with Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/1183 and Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1185 .

3 The Commission shall then inform the other Member States.

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union. It shall apply from 7 December 2019 .