Treatment or marketing declarations
Article 34
1. Member States may provide that harvesters, producers and merchants of grapes, grape juice and must who, before the dates for the submission of the production and harvest declarations as specified in Articles 22 and 24 of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/274, have treated or marketed wine products intended for the production of wine have to submit a treatment or marketing declaration to the competent authorities in respect of the wine year in which the treatment or marketing took place. 2. Where Member States require harvesters to submit a treatment or marketing declaration pursuant to paragraph 1, harvesters belonging to or associated with one or several cooperative wineries or groups of producers and having delivered their whole production of grapes or must to those wineries or groups of producers while reserving the right to obtain by winemaking a quantity of less than 10 hectolitres for their family consumption, shall be exempted from the obligation to submit such a declaration, provided that those cooperative wineries or groups are required to submit a treatment or marketing declaration pursuant to paragraph 1.