13. 4. 84 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 101/17 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1011/84 of 10 April 1984 amending for the third time Regulation (EEC) No 997/81 laying down detailed rules for the description and presentation of wines and grape musts THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 337/79 of 5 February 1979 on the common organization of the market in wine ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1595/83 (3, and in particular Article 54 (5) thereof, ‘ Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 997/81 (3, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1224/83 (4, lays down detailed rules for the description of wines and grape musts; whereas experience gained in applying the said Regulation has shown that a number of amendments need to be made; Whereas, in order to give the bottler more freedom as regards the manner in which he presents the manda- tory information on wine labels, and in particular to permit the use of additional labels for all the manda- tory information required on imported wines, the principle should be laid down that all the mandatory information may be grouped together in the same field of vision rather than on a single label; Whereas, in the interests of the consumer, it should be specified that the actual or total alcoholic strength indicated on the label must be that determined by analysis ; whereas the figure giving the alcoholic strength must, nonetheless, for the sake of simplifica- tion, be able to be rounded off within certain limits ; whereas experience shows that the tolerance permitted hitherto should be revised ; Whereas Australia has asked to be allowed to export to the Community wines bearing the name of two vine varieties and, in order to avoid discrimination between imported wines and Community wines as regards description, an addition should be made to Regulation (EEC) No 997/81 concerning the description of Australian wines ; Whereas, having regard to the importance of the resi- dual sugar content for the description of certain types ) OJ No L 54, 5. 3. 1979, p. 1. () O No L 163, 22. 6. 1983, p. 48. J No L 106, 16. 4. 1981, p. 1. J No L 134, 21. 5. 1983, p. 1. of wine, the use of the descriptive terms indicated should have to conform to analytical criteria, which should be indicated on the label ; whereas this would facilitate consumer choice ; Whereas the German and Dutch versions of the second indent of Article 16 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 997/81 differ manifestly from the versions in the other official Community languages; whereas those two versions should be amended to make the provision uniform in all the official languages ; whereas, to the same end, footnote (¥) in the Greek version of Annex III, point IIl (Greece) should be deleted ; Whereas several additions or corrections should be made to the lists contained in Annexes II, III and IV to Regulation (EEC) No 997/81 in accordance with requests by certain non-member countries and in compliance with the general rules laid down by Council Regulation (EEC) No 355/79(), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3685/81 (%); 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 997/81 is hereby amended as follows : 1. Article 1 (1) is replaced by the following: ‘1. The mandatory information on the label required by Articles 2 (1), 12 (1), 22 (1), 27 (1), 28 (1) and 29 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 355/79, and that made mandatory by the Member States under Articles 3 (2), 13 (2) and 23 (2) or by the Commis- sion under Article 30 (3) of that Regulation : — shall be grouped together in the same field of vision on one or more labels affixed to the same container or directly on the container itself, and () OJ No L 54, 5. 3. 1979, p. 99. (9 OJ No L 369, 24. 12. 1981, p. 1.