Indication of the harvesting year
Article 11
1. Only extra virgin olive oil and virgin olive oil, referred to in Part VIII, points 1(a) and (b), of Annex VII to Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013, may bear the indication of the harvesting year. 2. The harvesting year may be shown only if 100 % of the contents of the container come from that harvest and shall be indicated on the label either in the form of the relevant marketing year in accordance with Article 6, point (f), of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 or in the form of the month and the year of the harvest, in that order. The month shall correspond to the month of the extraction of the oil from the olives. 3. Member States may decide that the harvesting year referred to in paragraph 1 shall be indicated on the label of olive oils referred to in that paragraph, of their domestic production, obtained from olives harvested on their territory and intended for their national markets only. 4. The decision referred to in paragraph 3 shall not prevent olive oils labelled prior to the date on which that decision takes effect from being marketed until the stocks are exhausted. 5. Member States shall notify the Commission of the decision referred to in paragraph 3 in accordance with Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/1183.