Definition of and requirements for ethyl alcohol of agricultural origin
Article 1
Open ↗Article 5 of Regulation (EU) 2019/787 is replaced by the following: ‘Article 5 Definition of and requirements for ethyl alcohol of agricultural origin For the purposes of this Regulation, ethyl alcohol of agricultural origin is a liquid which complies with the following requirements: (a) it has been obtained through alcoholic fermentation, followed by distillation exclusively of agricultural products listed in Annex I to the Treaty; (b) it has no detectable taste other than that of the raw materials used in its production; (c) its minimum alcoholic strength by volume is 96,0 %; (d) its maximum levels of residues do not exceed the following: (i) ethyl acetate: 1,3 grams per hectolitre of 100 % vol. alcohol; (ii) acetaldehyde (sum of ethanal and 1,1-diethoxyethane): 0,5 grams per hectolitre of 100 % vol. alcohol; (iii) higher alcohols (sum of: propan-1-ol, butan-1-ol, butan-2-ol, 2- methylpropan-1-ol, 2-methylbutan- 1-ol and 3-methylbutan-1-ol): 0,5 grams per hectolitre of 100 % vol. alcohol; (iv) methanol: 30 grams per hectolitre of 100 % vol. alcohol; (v) furfural: 0,5 grams per hectolitre of 100 % vol. alcohol.’.