Procedure for granting authorisations for replantings
Article 9
1. Applications for authorisation for replantings referred to in Article 66(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 may be submitted at any time during the same wine year in which the grubbing up takes place. However, Member States may decide that the submission of applications for authorisation for replantings can be made until the end of the second wine year following the one in which the grubbing up took place. Where those time-periods are not respected, Member States shall not grant an authorisation for replanting. The specific size and the location of the area(s) grubbed up and of the area(s) to be replanted in the same applicant's holding for which the authorisation is to be granted shall be identified in the applications. Where no restrictions are decided in accordance with Article 8, and the applicant has not undertaken any of the commitments referred to in point (2)(b) of Part A and point (2)(b) of Part B of Annex I to Delegated Regulation (EU) 2018/273 and in point (4) of Part B and Part D of Annex II to that Delegated Regulation, Member States may exempt applicants from the requirement to indicate in the application the specific location of area(s) to be replanted for which the authorisation is to be granted. Member States may request, where relevant for the implementation of the scheme of authorisations, additional information from applicants. Member States shall automatically grant authorisations within three months from the submission of the applications. However, Member States may decide to apply the time-periods referred to in Articles 6 and 7 for the submission of applications and granting of authorisations for new plantings, respectively. 2. Where the area to be replanted corresponds to the same area grubbed up or where no restrictions are decided in accordance with Article 8(1), a simplified procedure may be applied at national level or for certain areas within the territory of the Member State. In such case, the authorisation for replanting may be considered to have been granted on the date the area was grubbed up. To this purpose, the producer concerned shall submit, at the latest by the end of the wine year in which the grubbing up was undertaken, an ex post communication which stands as application for authorisation. 3. Applications for authorisations for replantings referred to in Article 66(2) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 may be submitted at any time during the year. The specific size and the location of the area(s) to be grubbed up and of the area(s) to be replanted in the same applicant's holding for which the authorisation is to be granted shall be identified in the applications. Applications shall also include the commitment to grub up the area planted with vines at the latest by the end of the fourth year from the date on which new vines have been planted. Member States may request, where relevant for the implementation of the scheme of authorisations, additional information from applicants. Member States shall automatically grant authorisations within three months as from the submission of the application. However, Member States may decide to apply the time periods referred to in Articles 6 and 7 for the submission of applications and granting of authorisations for new plantings, respectively.