Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1718 of 14 October 2019 protecting the traditional terms Opolo, Vrhunsko vino s kontroliranim zemljopisnim podrijetlom (Vrhunsko vino KZP), Kvalitetno biser vino, Mlado vino, Vrhunsko pjenušavo vino and Kvalitetno vino s kontroliranim zemljopisnim podrijetlom (Kvalitetno vino KZP) identifying wines produced in Croatia

The following traditional terms identifying grapevine products produced in Croatia shall be protected and recorded in the electronic register e-Bacchus: (a) traditional terms within the meaning of point (a) of Article 112 of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013: ‘Vrhunsko vino s kontroliranim zemljopisnim podrijetlom (Vrhunsko vino KZP)’; ‘Kvalitetno biser vino’; ‘Vrhunsko pjenušavo vino’; ‘Kvalitetno vino s kontroliranim zemljopisnim podrijetlom (Kvalitetno vino KZP)’; (b) traditional terms within the meaning of point (b) of Article 112 of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013: ‘Opolo’; ‘Mlado vino’. The definitions and conditions of use of the traditional terms are set out in the Annex to this Regulation.

The terms protected pursuant to Article 1 may be used for a period of five years from the date of entry into force of this Regulation to designate grapevine products which do not comply with the definition and conditions of use of the protected terms referred to in that Article, and which are imported into and marketed within the territory of the Union from Bosnia and Herzegovina if those terms are traditionally used in the territory of that third country. At the expiry of the five-year period, only grapevine products referred to in the first paragraph which have been imported into the Union from Bosnia and Herzegovina before the expiry of the five year period may be lawfully marketed until all existing stocks are exhausted.

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