
Article 1 
Implementing Regulation (EU) No 29/2012 is amended as follows:

((1)) the first paragraph of Article 5 is amended as follows:

((a)) point (d) is replaced by the following:
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(d) indication of the maximum acidity expected by the date of minimum durability referred to in Article 9(1)(f) of Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 may appear only if it is accompanied by an indication, in lettering of the same size and in the same visual field, of the peroxide value, the wax content and the ultraviolet absorption, determined in accordance with Regulation (EEC) No 2568/91, expected on the same date;
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((b)) in point (e), the following sentence is added:
'For the purposes of this point, the harvesting year shall be indicated on the label either in the form of the relevant marketing year in accordance with Article 6(c)(iii) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 or in the form of the month and the year of the harvest, in that order. The month shall correspond to the month of the extraction of the oil from the olives.';
((2)) the following Article 5a is inserted:
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Article 5a 
Member States may decide that the harvesting year referred to in point (e) of the first paragraph of Article 5 is to be indicated on the label of olive oils referred to in that point of their domestic production, obtained from olives harvested in their territory and intended for their national markets only.
That decision shall not prevent olive oils labelled prior to the date on which that decision takes effect from being marketed until the stocks are exhausted.
Member States shall notify that decision in accordance with Article 45 of Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011.'.
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.
Point (1) of Article 1 shall apply from six months after the date of entry into force of this Regulation.
Olive oils labelled prior to the date referred to in the second paragraph may be marketed until the stocks are exhausted.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 22 May 2018.
For the Commission
The President
Jean-Claude JUNCKER