Commission Oenology

Adopted

Importance for the viticultural sector of research on the metabolism of alcohol

RESOLUTION OENO 3/97

IMPORTANCE FOR THE VITICULTURAL SECTOR OF RESEARCH ON THE METABOLISM OF ALCOHOL

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,

ON THE PROPOSAL of Sub-Commission « Nutrition and Health » after study by the expert group « Nutrition and Wine »,

AFTER HEARING the latest scientific data on the variability of the population’s metabolic response to wines and other alcoholic beverages consumption,

RECOMMENDS to Member States

Typicity and diversity of vine products

RESOLUTION OENO 1/97

TYPICITY AND DIVERSITY OF VINE PRODUCTS

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,

ON THE PROPOSAL of Commission II « Oenology »,

TAKING INTO ACCOUNT the papers presented during the XXIst Vine and Wine World Congress  held in Punta del Este from the 27 to 29 November 1995 , on the theme of « Wine-making technologies and typicities of wine ».

PROPOSES to encourage works aiming at improving  knowledge in order to achieve:

Limit of sulfur dioxide in wines

RESOLUTION OENO 9/98

LIMIT OF SULFUR DIOXIDE IN WINES

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,

ON PROPOSAL of Commission II, «Enology,» and on the advice of the Sub-committees «Nutrition and Health» and «Methods of Analysis,» and the Groups of Experts, «Microbiology of Wine» and «Technology of Wine»;

CONSIDERING that the consumption of wine represents an food source with sulfur dioxide;

Principle of ratification of common methods with respect to methods of reference

RESOLUTION OENO 7/98

PRINCIPLE OF RATIFICATION OF COMMON METHODS WITH RESPECT TO METHODS OF REFERENCE

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,

READ Article 5, paragraph 4 of the International Convention of Unification of Methods of Analysis and Appreciation of Wines of October 13, 1954,

ON PROPOSAL of Subcommittee of Methods of Analysis and Appreciation of Wines,

DECIDES:

Raisining by physical treatment

RESOLUTION OENO 5/98

RAISINING BY PHYSICAL TREATMENT

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,

HAVING READ the works of the Group of Experts, «International Code of Enological Practices,»

DECIDES:

ON PROPOSAL of Commission II, «Enology,» to introduce into Part II of the «International Code of Enological Practices,» the following definition: