BAKGRUNN (fra kommisjonsforordningen)

(1) Regulation (EU) 2024/1143 of the European Parliament and of the Council establishes one common Union framework for the registration and protection of geographical indications in three agricultural sectors (wine, spirit drinks and agricultural products). To this purpose, that Regulation amends or repeals, to the extent necessary, Regulations, which previously provided for separate frameworks in those sectors: Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 has been amended as regards geographical indication in the wine sector, Regulation (EU) 2019/787 of the European Parliament and of the Council has been amended as regards geographical indications in the spirit drinks sector,and Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council, concerning geographical indications in the agricultural products and foodstuffs sector, has been repealed. 

(2) Regulation (EU) 2024/1143 empowers the Commission to adopt delegated and implementing acts setting out uniform procedure for the registration of geographical indications for the agricultural sectors of wine, spirit drinks and agricultural products. As a result, delegated and implementing acts previously adopted on the basis of the empowerments provided for in the sectoral regulations have to be amended or repealed, to the extent necessary to bring them in conformity with Regulation (EU) 2024/1143 and its secondary legislation.

(3) Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/335 supplements Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013, among others, as regards applications for protection of designations of origin and geographical indications, the objection procedure, restrictions of use, amendments to product specifications, cancellation of protection, and labelling and presentation. In the new Union framework for geographical indications established by Regulation (EU) 2024/1143, covering three agricultural sectors (wine, spirit drinks and agricultural products), the rules included in Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/33 are replaced partly by certain provisions included in Regulation (EU) 2024/1143 and partly by the provisions included in Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2024/XXXX[OP: please insert the reference to C(2024)8001],that supplements Regulation (EU) 2024/1143 with the rules, among others, concerning the procedures for oppositions, Union amendments and approval and communication of standard and temporary amendments. Therefore, as regards the wine sector, certain provisions of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/33 should be deleted, because they would be in conflict with the provisions adopted in Regulation (EU) 2024/1143 or in Delegated Regulation (EU) 2024/XXXX[OP: please insert the reference to C(2024)8001], which also apply to the wine sector.

(4) However, the provisions of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/33 concerning the language of the registered name, the justification of the requirement for packaging the wine within the geographical area, including bottling, the derogations concerning production in the demarcated geographical area and the derogations from the obligation to use the term ‘protected designation of origin’ in labelling, in Articles 2(1), 4(2), 5 and 23 of that Delegated Regulation, respectively, should be maintained because they are essential to the system while they have neither been included in Regulation (EU) 2024/1143 nor they may be part of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2024/XXXX [OP: please insert the reference to C(2024)8001] on the basis of the empowerments of Regulation (EU) 2024/1143. 

(5) Provisions of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/33 that do not concern the geographical indications should also be maintained.

(6) Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/33 should therefore be amended accordingly,