Legislative resolution embodying Parliament's opinion on the proposal for a Council Regulation on the common organisation of the market in wine (COM(98)0370 final - C4- 0497/98 98/0126(CNS))(Consultation procedure)
1. 10. 1999 EN Official Journal of the European Communities C 279/385 Thursday 6 May 1999 (s) A4-0223/99 Proposal for a Council Regulation on the common organisation of the market in wine (COM(98)0370 − C4-0497/98 − 98/0126(CNS)) The proposal was approved with the amendments adopted on 11 Febarury 1999 (1) and with the following amendments: TEXT PROPOSED BY THE COMMISSION (*) AMENDMENTS BY PARLIAMENT (Amendment 1) TITLE IIIa and Article 38a (new) TITLE IIIa ACTION PROGRAMME HEALTH’ ‘VINE PRODUCTS AND Article 38a The action programme ‘Vine products and health’ 1. shall comprise: − research into the effects of using wine and other vine products in the human diet; − the provision of information to consumers through the dissemination of messages based on scientific data relating to wine; such information shall focus on types and forms of wine consumption which enhance the positive effects thereof; − initiatives which promote moderate consumption and the appreciation of and the search for quality; − structures which provide the various media with a permanent source of accurate technical information concerning the wine sector and which prevent erron- eous messages and the harmful dissemination thereof; 2. Expenditure resulting from the carrying out of the promotion initiatives referred to in paragraph 1 shall be regarded as intervention measures within the meaning of Article 3(1) of Regulation (EEC) No 729/70. (Replaces Amendments 147, 148 and 149 adopted on 11 February 1999) (Amendment 2) Annex III(1) 1. Wine-growing zone A comprises: 1. Wine-growing zone A, which cannot be extended to any other Member State, comprises: (a) in Germany: the areas under vines other than those (a) in Germany: the areas under vines other than those included in wine-growing zone B; included in wine-growing zone B; (b) in Belgium: the Belgian wine-growing area; (b) in Belgium: the Belgian wine-growing area; (c) in Luxembourg: the Luxembourg wine-growing region; (c) in Luxembourg: the Luxembourg wine-growing region; (d) in the Netherlands: the Netherlands wine-growing areas; (d) in the Netherlands: the Netherlands wine-growing areas; (e) in the United Kingdom: the United Kingdom wine- (e) in the United Kingdom: the United Kingdom wine- growing area. growing area. (1) Minutes of that Sitting, Part II, Item 2. (*) OJ C 271, 31. 8. 1998, p. 21