27.5.2009 Official Journal of the European Union L 128/15 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 436/2009 of 26 May 2009 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 479/2008 as regards the vineyard register, compulsory declarations and the gathering of information to monitor the wine market, the documents accompanying consignments of wine products and the wine sector registers to be kept THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 479/2008 of 29 April 2008 on the common organisation of the market in wine, amending Regulations (EC) No 1493/1999, (EC) No 1782/2003, (EC) No 1290/2005, (EC) No 3/2008 and repealing Regulations (EEC) No 2392/86 and (EC) No 1493/1999 ('), and in particular Article 115(2) and Article 121 thereof, Whereas: (1) Regulation (EC) No 479/2008 amended the previous wine-sector arrangements, as laid down in Council Regu- lation (EC) No 1493/1999 of 17 May 1999 on the common organisation of the market in wine (3, and repealed Council Regulation (EEC) No 2392/86 of 24 July 1986 establishing the Community vineyard register (}) with effect from 1 August 2009. (2)  The compulsory information and the provisions relating to the updating and monitoring of the wine register are at present laid down in Regulation (EEC) No 2392/86 and the detailed implementing rules relating to the keeping of the vineyard register are laid down in Commission Regulation (EEC) No 649/87 (4. (3)  Article 108 of Regulation (EC) No 479/2008 makes provision for certain Member States to keep a vineyard register ~ containing up-to-date information about production potential. (4)  Regulation (EEC) No 649/87 should therefore be repealed and detailed implementing rules in respect of the vineyard register should be adopted. (5)  The main objectives of the vineyard register are the monitoring and verification of production potential. Pursuant to Article 116 of Regulation (EC) No 479/2008, Member States are required to ensure that those administration and control procedures which () O] L 148, 6.6.2008, p. 1. () OJ L 179, 14.7.1999, p. 1. () O] L 208, 31.7.1986, p. 1. (9 O] L 62, 5.3.1987, p. 10. (10) () ©) O] 0] relate to areas are compatible with the Integrated Admin- istration and Control System (IACS). In particular, the identification of the wine producers and the vineyard parcels cultivated must be compatible with the IACS. To avoid excessive administrative burdens without under- mining the objectives of the vineyard register, the gathering of information from producers with a very limited production should not be made compulsory. To ensure the practical use of the vineyard register, the information required in it should be consistent with the communications required pursuant to Title 1V, production potential, of Commission Regulation (EC) No 555/2008 (°) laying down detailed rules for imple- menting Council Regulation (EC) No 479/2008 as regards support programmes, trade with third countries, production potential and on controls in the wine sector. To ensure consistency between the wine-growing data available, certain data collected within the framework of Council Regulation (EEC) No 357/79 of 5 February 1979 on statistical surveys of areas under vines (°) should be included in the vineyard register, and in particular the data concerning the year in which the vineyard parcel was planted. To ensure that the information contained in the vineyard register consistently tallies with the actual wine-growing situation, it should be constantly updated and regularly verified. Article 111 of Regulation (EC) No 479/2008 states that producers of grapes intended for winemaking and producers of must and wine must make harvest declarations each year 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 may also require grape merchants to declare the quantities of grapes marketed. 170, 30.6.2008, p. 1. 54, 5.3.1979, p. 124. ==