Procureur de la Republique at the Cour d’Appel Aix-en-Provence and Federation Nationale des Producteurs de Vins de Table and Vins de Pays v Paul Louis Lahaille and others: ECJ 30 Sep 1975

Europa Table wines, in order to be entitled to that designation and to move freely in the territory of the member states, need not comply with any rules of analysis other than those laid down in regulation no 816/70. A member state may not require in respect of wines from another member state an accompanying certificate other than that governed by community regulations. A member state may in the present state of community law apply as a national measure of control a presumption in law of over-alcoholization which is based on the proportion of alcohol to the dry extract measured by the 100* method, provided that that presumption is capable of being rebutted and that it is applied in such a way as not to place at a disadvantage, in law or in fact, as a measure having an effect equivalent to a quantitative restriction, wines from other member states.

Citations:

C-10/75

European, Agriculture

Updated: 10 April 2022; Ref: scu.132185