L176/14 Official Journal of the European Communities 29.6.2001 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1282/2001 of 28 June 2001 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 14931999 as regards the gathering of information to identify wine products and to monitor the wine market and amending Regulation (EC) No 16232000 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 of 17 May 1999 on the common organisation of the market in wine ('), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2826/2000 (3), and in particular Articles 23, 33 and 73 thereof, Whereas: 1) () ) 0] 0] Article 18 of Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 states that producers of grapes intended for winemaking and producers of must and wine are required to make harvest declarations in respect of the most recent harvest and that producers of wine and must and commercial operators other than retailers must declare their stocks each year. That Article also stipulates that the Member States can also require grape merchants to declare the quantities of grapes marketed. In order to facilitate market management operations, a time limit should be laid down for making declarations. Since harvesting takes place at different times in different Member States, the deadlines for declarations by producers should be staggered. Provision should also be made to require operators selling wine products before the dates specified for declarations to make declarations. However, producers who can provide all the necessary information required in a single declaration of wine production need not make two declarations. Very small producers can be exempted from making declarations as their total production accounts for a very small percentage of Community production. In order to facilitate the application of this Regulation, the particulars which must be given in the declarations should be laid down here in tabular form while the Member States should be allowed to decide on the form in which operators are to provide them. The time limits by which the Member States are to centralise and forward the data they have collected to the Commission and the manner in which the data are to be forwarded should also be specified. L 179, 14.7.1999, p. 1. L 328, 23.12.2000, p. 4. (6) (10) () () 0] 0] The category of ‘other wines’ should be defined in keeping with the classification of vine varieties that may be cultivated in the Community, as established by the Member States in accordance with Article 19 of Regula- tion (EC) No 1493/1999. Information relating to areas could be inaccurate where the declarants have not had suitable means of verifica- tion at their disposal. Provision should therefore be made in such cases for penalties varying according to the seriousness of the inaccuracies in declarations presented. The penalty arrangements must provide for a sufficient degree of proportionality with regard to declarations submitted by wine-growers that are found to contain omissions or errors. The penalties should therefore vary with the correction made to the declarations. Harvest and stock declarations submitted by the various parties concerned are currently the only means of prop- erly knowing the quantities of wine produced and wine stocks. Appropriate steps therefore need to be taken to ensure that declarations are presented by the parties concerned and are complete and accurate by providing for penalties where declarations are not forthcoming or are false or incomplete when presented. To facilitate the processing of data relating to declarations, each declara- tion presented in a competent administrative unit should be considered separately from any others that the same producer may have presented in other administrative units in the Member State. Council Regulation (EEC) No 2392/86 (), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1631/98 (%), provides for the establishment of a Community vineyard register. The Member States with a complete register should be allowed to use certain data from that register if declara- tions do not provide them. Certain information must be available on the wine market to ensure that it can be monitored. In addition to the data provided in the summaries of the various declarations, information on wine supplies, utilisation and prices is essential. The Member States should there- fore be required to gather this information and send it to the Commission on certain fixed dates. L 208, 31.7.1986, p. 1. L 210, 28.7.1998, p. 14.