
Article 1 
Annexes II and III to Regulation (EC) No 110/2008 are amended as follows:

((1)) in Annex II, after point 37 Sloe gin, the following point 37a is inserted:
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37a 
Sloe-aromatised spirit drink or Pacharán is a spirit drink:


((a)) which has a predominant sloe taste and is obtained by the maceration of sloes (Prunus spinosa) in ethyl alcohol of agricultural origin, with the addition of natural extracts of anise and/or distillates of anise;
((b)) which has a minimum alcoholic strength by volume of 25 %;
((c)) for the production of which a minimum quantity of 125 grams of sloe fruits per litre of final product has been used;
((d)) which has sugar content, expressed as invert sugar between 80 and 250 grams per litre of the final product;
((e)) the organoleptic characteristics, colour and taste of which are provided exclusively by the fruit used and the anise.

The term “Pacharán” may be used as a sales denomination only when the product is manufactured in Spain. When the product is manufactured outside Spain, “Pacharán” may only be used to supplement the sales denomination “Sloe-aromatised spirit drink”, provided that it is accompanied by the words: “produced in …”, followed by the name of the Member State or third country of the manufacture;
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((2)) Annex III is amended as follows:

((a)) in the product category ‘Other spirit drinks’, the following entries are deleted:
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 Pacharán navarro Spain
 Pacharán Spain'
((b)) after the product category 34, the following entry is inserted:
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37a. Sloe-aromatised spirit drink or Pacharán
 Pacharán navarro Spain'
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
Spirit drinks corresponding to the category ‘Sloe-aromatised spirit drinks or Pacharán’ which are not labelled in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 110/2008 may continue to be placed on the market until stocks are exhausted.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 10 February 2015.
For the Commission
The President
Jean-Claude JUNCKER