Production declarations
Article 22
1. Producers shall submit the production declaration referred to in Article 31 of the Delegated Regulation (EU) 2018/273 as regards the production of the current wine year by 15 January of each year. Member States may set an earlier date or, for late harvests and specific wine productions, a date not later than 1 March. 2. The production declaration referred to in paragraph 1 shall contain at least the following information: (a) identity of the producer; (b) place where products are held; (c) category of products used for wine production: grapes, grape must (concentrated, rectified concentrated or partially fermented), or new wines still in fermentation; (d) name and address of suppliers; (e) areas planted with vines under production, including those for experimental purposes, in which the grapes originate, indicated in hectares and with reference to the location of the vineyard parcel; (f) volume, indicated in hectolitres or 100 kg, of the wine products obtained since the beginning of the wine year and held at the date of the declaration, broken down by colour (red/rosé or white), category of products used (grapes, new wines still in fermentation, must, including partially fermented but excluding concentrated and rectified concentrated), and one of the following types: (i) wine with a PDO; (ii) wine with a PGI; (iii) varietal wine without PDO/PGI; (iv) wine without PDO/PGI; (v) all other products of the wine year, including concentrated must, rectified concentrated must. Member States may authorise the submission of one declaration per winemaking establishment. 3. The quantity of wine to be stated in the production declaration shall be the total quantity obtained on completion of the principal alcoholic fermentation, including the wine lees. To convert quantities of products other than wine into hectolitres of wine, Member States may set coefficients according to objective criteria relevant for the conversion. Member States shall notify the Commission of the coefficients along with the notifications referred to in Point 8 of Annex III to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1185. 4. Member States shall require harvesters and merchants who market products intended for the production of wine to provide producers with the data required for filling in the production declarations.