in force 2026-03-18 MODIFIED+2,528 −1,436§
Amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/471 32026R0471
applies from: unknown (the text changed beyond its dates, so no date that moved can be read as the application date)
dates added to the text: 2025-01-01, 2026-03-18, 2026-12-31 · dates removed: 2021-02-28, 2021-12-31, 2022-02-28, 2022-12-31
Paragraph 3 replaces the earlier fixed three-year and six-year validity rules, the 2020-2021 expiry extension to 31 December 2022, and the 28 February 2021/2022 notification and retraction dates with new provisions setting validity by marketing year, a new reference to Article 90a(4) penalties instead of Article 89(4) of Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013, a 1 January 2025 cut-off and 31 December 2026 notification deadline for certain authorisations, force-majeure extension and penalty-waiver rules tied to Regulation (EU) 2021/2116, an eighth-marketing-year validity rule for Article 66 authorisations valid on or granted after 18 March 2026, and an expiry rule for authorisations under the Article 68 transitional provisions.
A new paragraph 6 is added allowing Member States to require abandoned vineyards to be grubbed up for health and phytosanitary reasons.
Cited: Art. 62, v1 · Art. 62, v2
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Article 62
Authorisations
1. Vines of wine grape varieties classified in accordance with Article 81(2) may only be planted or replanted if an authorisation is granted in accordance with Articles 64, 66 and 68 under the conditions laid down in this Chapter.
2. Member States shall grant the authorisation referred to in paragraph 1, corresponding to a specific area expressed in hectares, upon submission of an application by producers which complies with objective and non-discriminatory eligibility criteria. Such authorisation shall be granted without a fee being charged to the producers.
3. The authorisations referred to Authorisations granted in paragraph 1 accordance with Article 64 shall be valid for three years from until the date on last day of the third marketing year following the marketing year in which they were granted. A producer who has not used an authorisation granted in accordance with Articles 64 and 68 during its period of validity shall be subject to the administrative penalties as provided for in Article 89(4) of Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013.
By way of derogation from the first subparagraph, Member States may decide that when replanting takes place on the same parcel or parcels on which the grubbing up was undertaken, the authorisations referred to in Article 66(1) are valid for six years from the date on which they were granted. Such authorisations shall clearly identify the parcel or parcels on which the grubbing up and the replanting will take place. 90a(4).
By way of derogation from the first subparagraph, the validity of authorisations granted in accordance with Article 64 and Article 66(1), which expires in the years 2020 and 2021, is extended until 31 December 2022.
Producers who hold authorisations in accordance with Article 64 and Article 66(1) of this Regulation, which expire in 2020 and 2021, shall not, by way of derogation from the first subparagraph of this paragraph, producers who hold a valid authorisation granted in accordance with Articles 64 and 68 before 1 January 2025 shall not be subject to the administrative penalty penalties referred to in Article 89(4) of Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 90a(4) provided that they inform the competent authorities before the date of expiry of their authorisation, and at the latest by 28 February 2022 31 December 2026, that they do not intend to make use of their authorisation and do not wish to benefit from it.
Where a well-determined area is gravely affected by one or both of the extension cases of their validity as force majeure or exceptional circumstances referred to in Article 3(1), points (a) and (c), of Regulation (EU) 2021/2116, the third subparagraph of this paragraph. Where producers who hold authorisations, Member State concerned may extend the validity of the authorisations granted in accordance with Article 64 of this Regulation to be used in that area that are due to expire by the end of the marketing year in which was one or both of those cases of force majeure or exceptional circumstances occur by up to twelve months. Planting authorisations may be extended until under this subparagraph only once. The Member State concerned shall inform the holders of every authorisation concerned that its validity has been extended. Where, by 31 December 2021, have declared to of the marketing year following the one in which one or both of the cases of force majeure or exceptional circumstances occurred, the holder of a planting authorisation informs the competent authority by 28 February 2021 authorities of the Member State that they do not intend to make use of those authorisations, they shall be allowed to retract their declarations by means of a written communication to it renounces the competent authority by 28 February 2022 and to make use of their authorisations within authorisation, the extended validity period administrative penalties provided for in the third subparagraph. first subparagraph shall not apply.
By way of derogation from the first subparagraph, the competent authorities of the Member State concerned may waive the administrative penalties provided for in Article 90a(4) of this Regulation upon a justified request from the holder of a planting authorisation granted in accordance with Articles 64 and 68 of this Regulation affected by a case of force majeure or exceptional circumstances referred to in Article 3(1) of Regulation (EU) 2021/2116.
Authorisations granted in accordance with Article 66 on or after 18 March 2026 and authorisations granted in accordance with that Article which are valid on that day shall be valid until the last day of the eighth marketing year following the marketing year in which they were granted. Producers who have not used an authorisation granted in accordance with Article 66 during its period of validity shall not be subject to the administrative penalties referred to in Article 90a(4).
Authorisations covered by the transitional provisions of Article 68 shall expire on the last day of the last marketing year of their validity.
4. This Chapter shall not apply to the planting or replanting of areas intended for experimental purposes, for setting-up collections of vine varieties intended to preserve genetic resources or for graft nurseries, to areas whose wine or vine products are intended solely for the consumption by the wine-grower’s household or to areas to be newly planted as a result of compulsory purchases in the public interest under national law.
5. Member States may apply this Chapter to areas producing wine suitable for producing wine spirits with a geographical indication as registered in accordance with Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 110/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council
Regulation (EC) No 110/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 January 2008 on the definition, description, presentation, labelling and the protection of geographical indications of spirit drinks and repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 1576/89 (OJ L 39, 13.2.2008, p. 16).. For the purposes of this Chapter, those areas may be treated as areas where wines with a protected designation of origin or protected geographical indication may be produced.6. Member States may require abandoned vineyards to be grubbed up for health and phytosanitary reasons.