Topics of the last meetings

The topics of the last session included the following:

 

• The BMELV representative invited as a guest reported on new or planned legal spirits regulations; In doing so, both the EU law, in particular the implementing regulation for "compound terms" and the EU food information regulation, as well as the national spirits law (AGeV) and the technical documents to be drawn up for geographically protected information (here in particular grain / Kornbrand) reported; The changes for the alcohol and spirits market with regard to the abolition of the spirits monopoly from January 1, 2018 were also briefly discussed.
• Examples of compound terms with regard to the future implementation regulation; a collection of examples is encouraged
• Whiskey: Production using the wort method
• Legal issues relating to labeling, e.g. B. "Vugelbeerpunsch", fruit spirit with fruit extract, mixture of fruit distillates
• Old bread brandy: name, raw materials used, manufacturing conditions
• Permissible additives for liquors
• Limits for plasticizers
• Use of antibiotics
• Status of European data collection to establish a guideline value for ethyl carbamate
• New elections of the chairman, his deputy and the secretary

Position papers

 

• Use of compound terms, allusions and the term ‘mixture’ in the description and presentation of liquors (2022) ( pdf )
• Application of Implementing Regulation (EU) No 716/2013 with regard to the labelling of liquors and other foodstuffs containing compound terms or allusions (2015) ( pdf )
• Ethyl carbamate in stone fruit spirits (2006, updated 2010) ( pdf )
• Application of the amended liquors Regulation (EC) No. 110/2008 ( pdf )
  Here: Use of so-called "compound terms" (decision trees)
  prepared by the LChG Working Group Liquors together with the BMELV