RESOLUTION OIV-OENO 638-2019

UPDATE OF THE LIMIT OF LEAD IN WINES

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,

IN VIEW of article 2 paragraph iv of the Agreement of 3rd April 2001 establishing the International Organisation of Vine and Wine,

ON THE PROPOSAL of the "Methods of Analysis" Sub-Commission,

IN VIEW of Resolution OENO 1/1996 which aims at proposing a reduction of this limit in the coming years once the technological progress allows this reduction to be possible,

IN VIEW of Resolution OENO 13/2006 which encourages the member States to disseminate pertinent information as widely as possible in order to maintain lead contents at the technologically lowest possible levels,

CONSIDERING the favourable opinion of the Food Safety experts’ group,

CONSIDERING that the Sub-commission was in favour of revising the limit of lead in wines,

CONSIDERING the need to distinguish between wines and liqueur wines due to the process and long period of ageing,

RECOMMENDS that derogations be considered for wines subject to long periods of ageing when the wines respected this limit at the time of their production,

DECIDES, on the proposal of Commission II "Oenology", to amend in Annex C of the International Compendium of Analysis of Wine and Musts, the existing lead limit of 0.15 mg/L^[1] with the following levels

Update of the limit of lead in wines

^[1] The limit of 0.15 mg/L applies to wines and liqueur wines produced from grapes harvested between 2006 and 2018

^[2] For liqueur wines subject to extended periods of aging, the applicable limit is that in force at the time of their production.