Facing the discontent of EU producers and under the pressure of wine producing Member States and the European Parliament, the Commission proposed at the third meeting of the High Level Group (HLG), on September 21st in Palermo (Sicily), a new system of management of wine plantings. This system based...
Brussels, 6 July 2012. The High Level Group (HLG) on planting rights met today in Brussels. It examined the consequences of the disappearance of the planting rights regime as from 1 January 2016. This second meeting reinforced the fears of wine producers and highlighted the need to reconsider...
Brussels, 27 June 2012. EFOW (European Federation of Origin Wines), with the help of a blogger passionate about wine, has launched a multilingual blog (English, French, Italian and Spanish) on the most pressing issue for the EU wine sector: the end of the wine planting rights scheme, scheduled for 1...
On 12 June the European Court of Auditors (ECA) held a press conference in Brussels to report on its opinion regarding EU major areas of spending in the wine sector (“The reform of the Common Market Organisation of the market in wine: Progress to date”, Special Report n°7). The ECA...
Brussels, April 20, 2012 – Further to the position adopted by 15 Member States and the European Parliament, Commissioner CIOLOS announced on the occasion of Green Week in Berlin, in January, the creation a High Level Group. The first group meeting was held on April 19th in Brussels. Professionals...
The European Commissioner for agriculture Dacian Ciolos announced, on 19th January 2012, in Berlin, the setting-up of a High Level Group on the wine sector, and in particular the future of the planting rights. In 2008, the European Union took the decision to authorise anyone to plant vine anywhere...
Brussels, 10 February 2011. In a letter addressed to the President of the AREV, the Slovenian Minister announced that he joined the camp of Member States against the liberalization of planting rights. Thus, a 14th Member State has taken position against the liberalization of planting rights, which...
Brussels, 30 November 2011. Today a 13th Member State has taken position against the liberalisation of planting rights, which will take place on January 1st 2016. To obtain the qualified majority in the Council, we still need 54 votes. As explained by Riccardo Ricci Curbastro, President of EFOW:...
On March 19th, 9 Agriculture Ministers and more than 350 members of the national and European Parliament and of the wine sector met at the European Parliament in Brussels to call for planting rights to be maintained. Opposition to the liberalisation of planting rights scheduled for the 1st of...