
Article 1 
Annex I A to Regulation (EC) No 606/2009 is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 11 March 2016.
For the Commission
The President
Jean-Claude JUNCKER
ANNEX

Annex I A to Regulation (EC) No 606/2009 is amended as follows:

((1)) in the table, the following row 56 is added:

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Oenological practice Conditions of use Limits on use Applications
‘56 Use of malolactic fermentation activators Under the conditions laid down in Appendix 22’ 
((2)) the following Appendix 22 is added:

‘Appendix 22 
The purpose is to add malolactic fermentation activators at the end or after the alcoholic fermentation to facilitate malolactic fermentation.

Promote the initiation, kinetics or completion of malolactic fermentation:


((a)) by enriching the environment with nutrients and growth factors for acid lactic bacterias;
((b)) by the adsorption of some bacteria inhibitors.


((a)) Activators are microcrystalline cellulose or products derived from the degradation of yeasts (autolysates, inactivated yeasts, yeast walls).
((b)) Activators can be added to wine or fermenting wine before or during malolactic fermentation.
((c)) The activators do not have to induce to organoleptic deviations in wine.
((d)) Malolactic fermentation activators must comply with the specifications prescribed by the International Oenological Codex published by the OIV. If the activators are microcrystalline cellulose they must comply with the specifications laid down in the Annex to Commission Regulation (EU) No 231/2012.

