
Article 1 
Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 is hereby amended as follows:

1.. in Article 27, paragraph 7 is replaced by the following:
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7. Any natural or legal persons or groups of persons who process grapes harvested in wine-growing zone A or in the German part of wine-growing zone B, or on areas planted with vines in the Czech Republic, Malta, Austria, Slovenia or Slovakia shall be required to withdraw the by-products of such processing under supervision and subject to conditions to be determined.';
2.. Annexes III, IV, VI, VII and VIII are amended as set out in the Annex.
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
However, point 3 of the Annex shall apply from 1 September 2005.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 20 December 2005.
For the Council
The President
M. BECKETT
ANNEX

The Annexes to Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 are amended as follows:

1.. Annex III is amended as follows:

((a)) point 1 is amended as follows:

— point (c) is replaced by:
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((c)) in Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden and the United Kingdom: the wine-growing areas of these countries;'
— point (d) is replaced by:
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((d)) in the Czech Republic: the wine growing region of Čechy.';
((b)) point 2(d) is replaced by:
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((d)) in the Czech Republic: the wine-growing region of Morava and the areas under vines not included in point 1(d);'
2.. Annex IV is amended as follows:

((a)) point 1 is amended as follows:

— point (i) is replaced by the following:
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((i)) treatment of must and new wine still in fermentation with charcoal for oenological use, within certain limits;'
— in point (j), the following indent is inserted after the first indent:
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— plant proteins,';
— the following point is added:
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((s)) addition of L-ascorbic acid up to certain limits.';
((b)) point 3 is amended as follows:

— in point (m), the following indent is inserted after the first indent:
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— plant proteins,';
— the following points are added:
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((zc)) the addition of dimethyldicarbonate (DMDC) to wine for microbiological stabilisation, within certain limits and under conditions to be determined;
((zd)) the addition of yeast mannoproteins to ensure the tartaric and protein stabilisation of wines.';
((c)) in point 4, the following point is added:
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((e)) usage of pieces of oak wood in winemaking.';
3.. in Annex VI point D.2, first indent, the date ‘31 August 2005’ is replaced by the date ‘31 December 2007’;
4.. Annex VII is amended as follows:

((a)) in point A.2b, the third indent is replaced by:
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— one of the following wordings under conditions to be determined: “Vino de la tierra”, “οίνος τοπικός”, “zemské víno”, “regional vin”, “Landwein”, “ονομασία κατά παράδοση”, “regional wine”, “vin de pays”, “indicazione geografica tipica”, “tájbor”, “inbid ta’ lokalità tradizzjonali,”, “landwijn”, “vinho regional”, “deželno vino PGO”, “deželno vino s priznano geografsko oznako”, “geograafilise tähistusega lauavein”, “lantvin”. Where such a term is used, the words “table wine” is not required;'
((b)) in point D.1, the third subparagraph is replaced by the following:
'The information referred to in the second subparagraph may be repeated in one or more official languages of the Community for products originating in Greece and Cyprus.';
5.. in Annex VIII point F, point (a) is replaced by:
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((a)) the following information shall be provided only in the official language of the Member State in whose territory production took place:

— in the case of quality sparkling wines psr, the name of the specified region as referred to in point B.4, second indent;
— for quality sparkling wines psr or for quality sparkling wines, the name of another geographical area as referred to in point E.1.
The names of the products specified in the first and second indents produced in Greece and in Cyprus may be repeated in one or more other official languages of the Community;'.
