Prior decisions on areas to be made available for new plantings

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 the underlying reasons by 1 March of the respective year; their decision shall also include whether they calculate the total area available for new plantings in accordance with Article 63(1), point (a), or with Article 63(1), point (b), of that Regulation.

2. Member States may fix a deadline for the submission of recommendations from professional organisations or interested groups of producers as referred to in Article 65 of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013, in order to ensure that these recommendations are presented with sufficient time for their examination before the decision to limit the total area available for new plantings referred to in paragraph 1 is taken by the Member State concerned. These recommendations received shall also be made public.’;

in Article 4, paragraph 3 is replaced by the following:

‘3. Where Member States intend to apply the priority criteria referred to in paragraph 2, point (b)(ii), they shall define which of these priority criteria will be applied and whether they will be applied at national or regional level. Member States may also decide to attribute different importance to each of the priority criteria chosen. Such decisions shall enable Member States to establish a ranking of individual applications at national or regional level for the granting of the number of hectares pursuant to paragraph 2, point (b)(ii), based on the compliance of these applications with the priority criteria chosen.’;

Article 6(3), first subparagraph, is amended as follows:

the following point (aa) is inserted:

priority criterion referred to in Article 64(2), point (b), of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013: if applicable, applications shall indicate the grapevine variety the applicant intends to grow in the newly planted area(s), which must be listed in a list of varieties eligible for the conservation of the genetic resources of vines established and made public by the competent authority of the Member State concerned and which have been classified in accordance with Article 81(2) of that Regulation.’;

point (c) is replaced by the following:

priority criterion referred to in Article 64(2), point (f), of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013: applications shall include information of an economic nature demonstrating the increased cost-efficiency or competitiveness or presence on the markets of the holding on the basis of the considerations laid down in Part F of Annex II to Delegated Regulation (EU) 2018/273;’;

point (e) is replaced by the following:

priority criterion referred to in Article 64(2), point (h), of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013: applications shall include information showing that the size of the area of vineyard parcels of the applicant’s holding not benefiting from the exemptions laid down in Article 62(4) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 complies, at the time of the application, with thresholds to be established by Member States on the basis of the provisions laid down in Part H of Annex II to Delegated Regulation (EU) 2018/273;’;

in Article 10, the following paragraph 3 is added:

‘3. Where Member States decide to make available authorisations pursuant to Article 68(2a) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013, in addition to the 1 % of the total area planted with vines as provided for in Article 63(1) of that Regulation, they shall notify the Commission of the area covered by those additional authorisations by 1 March in the years 2023, 2024 and 2025.’;

Article 33 is amended as follows:

in paragraph1, point (b) is replaced by the following:

the notifications referred to in Articles 63(4) and 64(3) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 and in Article 10(3) of this Regulation. These notifications shall be made in the form set out in Part II of Annex IV to this Regulation;’;

in paragraph 2, the following second subparagraph is added:

‘By way of derogation from the first subparagraph, point (c), Member States shall notify the Commission by 1 March 2023 of the authorisations granted between 1 August and 31 December 2022 on the basis of the conversion of valid planting rights as referred to in Article 10(3) of this Regulation.’;

Annex I is amended in accordance with Annex I to this Regulation;

Annex III is amended in accordance with Annex II to this Regulation;

Annex IV is amended in accordance with Annex III to this Regulation.

COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2022/2567 of 13 October 2022 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/274 as regards the scheme of authorisations for vine plantings ANNEX I ANNEX II ANNEX III