Foodlaw-Reading
Dr David Jukes, The University of Reading, UK
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Commission consultation, 24 February 2021
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Commission Draft Regulation: COMMISSION DELEGATED REGULATION (EU) …/... of XXX amending Regulation (EU) 2019/787 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards labelling provisions for blends A copy of this document is available on this site (click on image). For full details of the consultation, see the consultation page: Spirit Drinks: labelling provisions for blends. The consultation closes on 24 March 2021. |
The following is the first section from the consultation document:
Context of the Delegated Act
Regulation (EU) 2019/787 has extended the labelling provisions for mixtures resulting in spirit drinks not complying with the requirements of any spirit drink category to blends resulting from the combination of spirit drinks belonging to different GIs or of spirit drinks with a GI with spirit drinks without a GI.
However, that provision seems to require that those blends may not bear the name of the spirit drink category they belong to as their legal name. This is not in line with the provision that spirit drinks complying with the requirements of a category of spirit drinks shall use the name of that category as their legal name, given that the Spirit Drinks Regulation defines ‘blends’ as the combination of two or more spirit drinks of the same category that are distinguishable only by minor differences in composition and provides that they belong to the same category of spirit drinks as the original spirit drinks before blending.
For this reason, Regulation (EU) 2019/787 should be amended to clarify the specific labelling provisions applicable to the above-mentioned types of blends and, in particular, that they shall bear the name of the relevant spirit drink category as their legal name.
