Following the publication of the new Spirit Drinks Regulation (2019/787) on 17 April 2021 and its entry into force 7 days later, in February 2022, the European Commission published its guidelines for the implementation of certain labelling provisions of the EU’s Spirit Drinks Regulation (2019/787) in all the official languages of the European Union.
The guidelines are designed to support both, national administrations and food business operators such as e.g. the producers of spirit drinks, with the uniform application of the Regulation. The guidelines are – as all guidelines – not legally binding but are designed to add practical explanations and to give non-exhaustive, illustrative examples on the labelling provisions applicable to spirit drinks, in particular concerning the use of ‘legal names’, ‘compound terms’, ‘allusions’, ‘mixtures’ and ‘blends’.
spiritsEUROPE and its membership thank the European Commission’s DG AGRI for their great work and the added clarity and support the documents provides for those working with the Spirit Drinks Regulation.
