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Document 61980CJ0204
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AGRICULTURE - WINE-BASED APERITIFS - COMMUNITY DEFINITION - NONE - POWER OF MEMBER STATES TO ENACT RULES AS TO QUALITY - REQUIREMENT OF MINIMUM PROPORTION OF ALCOHOL - PERMISSIBILITY - CONDITIONS
( COUNCIL REGULATIONS NO 816/70 , ANNEX II , POINT 10 , AND NO 337/79 , ANNEX II , POINT 11 )
THE APPELLATION ' ' WINE-BASED APERITIFS ' ' IS NOT AT PRESENT GOVERNED BY COMMUNITY REGULATIONS WHICH EXCLUDE THE APPLICATION OF THE NATIONAL LEGISLATION OF THE MEMBER STATES .
SINCE THERE ARE NO APPLICABLE COMMUNITY REGULATIONS THE MEMBER STATES CONTINUE TO HAVE THE POWER TO DEFINE THE STANDARDS APPLICABLE TO THE MANUFACTURE AND MARKETING OF NATIONAL PRODUCTS CALLED WINE-BASED APERITIFS . THEREFORE A MEMBER STATE MAY NOT BE PREVENTED FROM SUBJECTING THE MANUFACTURER OF WINE-BASED APERITIFS TO SPECIAL QUALITY RULES , DEPENDING ON THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THAT KIND OF BEVERAGE . IF A REQUIREMENT OF A MINIMUM PROPORTION OF ALCOHOL IS WITHIN THE COMMUNITY LIMITS , IT MEETS THAT CRITERION OF QUALITY .