Keeping accompanying documents, information and registers
Article 35
1. The accompanying documents and their copies shall be kept for at least five years from the end of the calendar year during which they were completed. 2. The information on the scheme of authorisation for vine plantings submitted in accordance with Article 33 shall be kept for at least ten wine years following the wine year during which it was submitted. 3. The inward and outward register and the documents concerning the operations recorded therein shall be kept for at least five years after the accounts to which they refer have been closed. Where one or more accounts in a register relating to insignificant quantities of wine are not yet closed, such accounts may be carried over to another register, provided that reference is made to such carry-over in the original register. In this case, the period of five years shall begin on the day of the carry-over. 4. The data of the vineyard register as provided for in Article 7 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2018/273 shall be kept for as long as it is necessary for the purposes of monitoring and verifying the measures or the scheme to which they relate and in any event for, respectively, at least five wine years in case of data relating to the measures or at least ten wine years in case of data relating to the scheme of authorisation for vine plantings, following the wine year to which they relate.