L 272/10 Official Journal of the European Communities 4. 10. 97 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1932/97 of 3 October 1997 amending Regulation (EEC) No 2348/91 establishing a databank for the results of analyses of wine products by nuclear magnetic resonance of deuterium THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 822/87 of 16 March 1987 on the common organization of the market in wine ('), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1417/97 (%), and in particular Article 79 (3) thereof, Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2348/91 (%) establishes an analytical databank at the Joint Research Centre to permit comparison of the results obtained by that analysis method and the results obtained prior to that by the method applied to products of similar origin; whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2676/90 of 17 September 1990 determining Community methods for the analysis of wine (*), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 822/97 (%), describes 2 method of analysing the 150/'%Q isotope ratio of the oxygen of the water in wine; whereas the results obtained with this method will permit, by means of comparison with authentic samples, useful information to be obtained for the purposes of verifying whether the products have been subject to the addition of water, or help to permit, in connection with the results of the analysis of the products’ other isotope characteristics, verification of the origin indicated in their description; whereas those analysis results may also improve the inter- pretation of NMR measurements of deuterium in wine alcohol; whereas, therefore, the results of analysis of the 8O/ isotope ratio carried out on authentic samples should be added to the databank; Whereas it is necessary to provide that samples of fresh grapes originating on the territory of Austria be taken and made into wine and that samples of that wine be analysed; whereas experience has shown that the number of samples taken in Luxembourg and in the United Kingdom needs to be increased to improve representat- iveness; Whereas, in order to guarantee the quality and compar- ability of analytical data, a system of recognized quality standards has to be applied to the laboratories entrusted by the Member States with the isotope analysis of samples for the databank; Whereas experience gained since the databank came into being shows that the representativeness of the Com- () OJ L 84, 27. 3. 1987, p. L. () OJ L 196, 24. 7. 1997, p. 10. () O] L 214, 2. 8. 1991, p. 39. () OF L 272, 3. 10. 1990, p. 1. () OJ L 117, 7. 5. 1997, p. 10. § munity vineyards concerned has not yet been guaranteed; whereas, therefore, the date laid down in the fifth indent of Article 4 should be reconsidered; Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Wine, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Article 1 Regulation (EEC) No 2348/91 is hereby amended as follows: 1. in the title, ‘by nuclear magnetic resonance of deu- terium’ is deleted and ‘isotope’ inserted before ‘analyses’; 2. in Article 1 the first sentence in the second paragraph is replaced by the following: “This databank shall comprise the data obtained from the isotope analysis of the ethyl alcohol and water components of wine products in accordance with the methods described in the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 2676/90.; 3. in Article 2: (@) in the third subparagraph of paragraph 1, ‘by nuclear magnetic resonance’ is deleted and ‘isotope’ inserted before ‘analysis’; (b) in the fourth subparagraph of paragraph 1, 2’ in the last two indents is replaced by ‘4, and the following indent is added: ‘— 50 samples in Austria, starting with the 1997 harvest.’; (c) in paragraph 3, ‘method described in Chapter 8 of the Annex’ is replaced by ‘methods described in the Annex’, and the following sentence is inserted after the first sentence, “The designated laboratories must, before 1 November 1998, satisfy the general criteria for the operation of testing laboratories set out in European standard EN 45001 and, in par- ticular, take part in a proficiency testing scheme for isotope analysis methods.’;