1.   Where Member States decide to limit the total area available for new plantings to be allocated in the form of authorisations in accordance with Article 63(2) and (3) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013, they shall make public such decisions and respective justifications by 1 March.

2.   Where Member States take into account recommendations from professional organisations or interested groups of producers as referred to in Article 65 of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013, these recommendations shall be presented with sufficient time for their examination before the decision referred to in paragraph 1 is taken by the Member State concerned. The recommendations shall also be made public.

1.   Once the decisions referred to in Articles 2 and 3 or the information referred to in the second paragraph of Article 4 are made public and not later than 1 May, Member States shall open the period for the submission of individual applications, which shall be at least of 1 month.

2.   Applications shall identify the specific size and location of the area in the applicant holding for which the authorisation is to be granted. Where no limits are decided in accordance with Article 2 and no criteria are decided in accordance with Article 3, Member States may exempt applicants from the requirement to indicate in the application the specific location of the area in the applicant holding for which the authorisation is to be granted. Member States may request, where relevant for the implementation of the scheme of authorisations, additional information from applicants.

3.   Where Member States decide to use certain criteria for the granting of authorisations for new plantings, the following rules apply:

Where any of the elements mentioned in points (a) to (f) of the first subparagraph may be gathered directly by Member States, Member States may exempt applicants from including such elements in their applications.

4.   After the expiry of the submission period referred to in paragraph 1, Member States shall inform the non-eligible applicants on the non-eligibility of their applications pursuant to the decision on the eligibility criteria adopted by Member States in accordance with Article 3. Such applications shall be excluded from the subsequent steps of the procedure.

1.   Where the total area covered by the eligible applications submitted does not exceed the area(s) made available in accordance with Article 2(1), Member States shall grant the authorisations to the full extent applied for by producers.

2.   Where the total area covered by the eligible applications submitted exceeds the area(s) made available in accordance with Article 2(1), Member States shall apply the selection procedure laid down in Annex I.

Member States shall, not later than 1 August, grant the authorisations to the selected applicants according to the outcome of such selection procedure. Where eligible applications have not been fully satisfied, applicants shall be informed of the reasons for such decision.

3.   Where the authorisation granted corresponds to less than 50 % of the area requested in the respective application, the applicant may refuse such authorisation within 1 month following the date on which the authorisation was granted.

In that case, the applicant shall not be subject to the administrative penalties referred to in Article 62(3) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013. Member States may decide that the corresponding number of hectares is made available in the same year, not later than 1 October, for authorisations to be granted to those applicants that were granted only a part of the area they requested in line with the outcome of the selection procedure referred to in paragraph 2, and which did not refuse the corresponding authorisations. Member States may also decide to make available those hectares in the following year on top of the 1 % of the total area planted with vines as provided for in Article 63(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013.

1.   Where Member States decide to restrict the granting of authorisations for replantings in areas eligible for the production of wines with a protected designation of origin or a protected geographical indication in accordance with Article 66(3) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 and Article 4 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/560, they shall make such decisions public by 1 March.

Professional organisations or interested groups of producers referred to in Article 65 of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 shall present the recommendations to be taken into account by the Member State pursuant to that Article with sufficient time for their examination before the decision referred to in the first subparagraph is taken. The Member State concerned shall make public those recommendations.

2.   The decisions referred to in paragraph 1 shall apply during 1 year from the date on which they were made public.

Where a recommendation from a professional organisation or an interested group of producers is made for a period of time longer than 1 year but no more than 3 years, as provided for in the second subparagraph of Article 65 of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013, such decisions may also apply for a period of time up to 3 years.

Where such professional organisations or interested groups of producers do not submit the relevant recommendations with sufficient time for their examination as provided for in paragraph 1, or Member States do not make public the relevant decisions by 1 March, Member States shall authorise the replanting automatically as provided for in Article 8.

1.   Applications for authorisations for replantings referred to in Article 66(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 may be submitted at any time during the same wine year in which the grubbing up takes place. However, Member States may decide that the submission of applications for authorisations for replantings can be made until the end of second wine year following the one in which the grubbing up took place. Where those time-periods are not respected, Member States shall not grant an authorisation for replanting.

Applications shall identify the specific size and the location of the area(s) grubbed up and of the area(s) to be replanted in the same applicant's holding for which the authorisation is to be granted. Where no restrictions are decided in accordance with Article 7, and the applicant has not undertaken any of the commitments referred to in point (2)(b) of Parts A and B of Annex I and in Parts B(4) and D of Annex II to Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/560, Member States may exempt applicants from the requirement to indicate in the application the specific location of area(s) to be replanted for which the authorisation is to be granted. Member States may request, where relevant for the implementation of the scheme of authorisations, additional information from applicants.

Member States shall grant authorisations automatically within 3 months as from the submission of the applications. However, Member States may decide to apply the time-periods referred to in Articles 5 and 6 for the submission of applications and granting of authorisations for new plantings respectively.

2.   Where the area to be replanted corresponds to the same area grubbed up or where no restrictions are decided in accordance with paragraph 1 of Article 7, a simplified procedure may be applied at national level or for certain areas within the territory of the Member State. In such case, the authorisation for replanting may be considered to have been granted the date the area was grubbed up. To this purpose, the producer concerned shall submit, at the latest by the end of the wine year in which the grubbing up was undertaken, an ex post communication which stands as application for authorisation.

3.   Applications for authorisations for replantings referred to in Article 66(2) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 may be submitted at any time during the year.

Applications shall identify the specific size and the location of the area(s) to be grubbed up and of the area(s) to be replanted in the same applicant's holding for which the authorisation is to be granted. Applications shall also include the commitment to grub up the area planted with vines at the latest by the end of the fourth year from the date on which new vines have been planted. Member States may request, where relevant for the implementation of the scheme of authorisations, additional information from applicants.

Member States shall grant authorisations automatically within 3 months as from the submission of the application. However, Member States may decide to apply the time-periods referred to in Articles 5 and 6 for the submission of applications and granting of authorisations for new plantings respectively.

1.   Producers shall submit the requests for conversion of planting rights into authorisations as referred to in Article 68(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 as from 15 September 2015.

Applications shall identify the specific size and location of the area in the applicant holding for which the authorisation is to be granted. Member States may exempt applicants from the requirement to indicate in the application the specific location of the area in the applicant holding for which the authorisation is to be granted. Member States may request, where relevant for the implementation of the scheme of authorisations, additional information from applicants.

2.   Where, in accordance with the second subparagraph of Article 68(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013, Member States decide to extend the time period to submit the request for the conversion of planting rights into authorisations beyond 31 December 2015, they shall make this decision public by 14 September 2015.

In this case, the requests for conversion by the producer may be submitted at any time as from 15 September 2015 and until the end of the time period fixed by Member States pursuant to the first subparagraph.

3.   After verifying that the planting rights for which the conversion has been requested in accordance with paragraphs 1 and 2 are still valid, Member States shall grant the authorisations automatically. The period between the submission of the request to convert and the granting of the authorisations shall not exceed 3 months. However, when the request is submitted before 31 December 2015, the 3-month period shall start on 1 January 2016.

1.   As from 2016, Member States shall submit to the Commission each year by 1 March:

2.   As from 2016, Member States shall submit to the Commission each year by 1 November:

3.   Member States complying with the conditions set out in Article 67(2) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 shall notify the Commission by 31 July 2015 of the decision not to implement the scheme of authorisations for vine plantings pursuant Article 67(2) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013.

4.   Member States shall notify the Commission by 15 September 2015 of the deadline for conversion of planting rights into authorisations pursuant to Article 9(2) of this Regulation. This notification shall be made in the form set out in Annex VII (Table A) to this Regulation.

5.   The notifications, communications and submission of lists referred to in this Article shall be made in accordance with Commission Regulation (EC) No 792/2009 (5).

6.   If a Member State fails to comply with paragraphs 1 to 4, or if the relevant information appears incorrect, the Commission may suspend part or all of the monthly payments referred to in Article 17 of Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 as regards the wine sector until the notification is correctly made.

7.   Member States shall retain the information submitted in accordance with this Article for at least 10 wine years following the wine year during which it was submitted.

8.   The obligations laid down in this Article shall not prejudice the Member States' obligations laid down in Regulation (EU) No 1337/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council (6).

1.   Member States shall apply controls to the extent they are necessary to ensure the proper application of the rules for the scheme of authorisations for vine plantings laid down in Chapter III of title I of Part II of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013, in Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/560 and in this Regulation.

2.   In order to verify the compliance with the rules referred to in paragraph 1, Member States shall make use of the vineyard register referred to in Article 145 of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013.

3.   Article 59 of Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 shall apply mutatis mutandis to the scheme of authorisations for vine plantings.