Article 6:  Ingredients

1. Ingredients shall mean any substance, including food additives, used for manufacturing and preparing a spirituous beverage of vitivinicultural origin, which is still present in the end-product or possibly in modified form.

2. Ingredients shall not mean:

a)      The components of an ingredient that have been temporarily removed during the manufacturing process and later reincorporated in a quantity that does not exceed the initial content.

b)      Additives whose presence in a spirituous beverage is only due to the fact that they were present in one or several ingredients of the said product, provided that they no longer fulfil a technological function in the finished product.

c)      Technological aids.