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This provision was amplified by Art 3 of Commission Implementing Regu-
lation (EU) No 716/2013 of 25 July 2013.
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Article 3(1) provides that the term
'spirit drink' shall not be part of a compound term describing an alcoholic
beverage. Article 2(c) of that regulation defines 'compound term' as
the combination of a term listed in categories 1 to 46 of Annex II to the Spirits
Regulation or a GI of a spirit drink, from which all the alcohol of the final product
originates, with:
(i) the name of one or more foodstuffs other than those used for the production of that
spirit drink in accordance with Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 110/2008, or
adjectives deriving from those names; and/or
(ii) the term 'liqueur'.
The term 'geographical indication' is defined in the Spirits Regulation to mean
'one of the geographical indications registered in Annex III to Regulation (EC)
No 110/2008'.
Article 3(2) of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 716/2013
provides that a compound term describing an alcoholic beverage shall not
consist of a combination of the term 'liqueur' with the name of one of the
categories 33 to 40 of Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 110/2008.
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Article 3(3) of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 716/2013
provides that a compound term shall not replace the sales denomination of a
spirit drink.
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Article 3(4) of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 716/2013
provides that the compound term describing an alcoholic beverage shall appear
in uniform characters of the same font, size and colour. It shall not be
interrupted by any textual or pictorial element which does not form part of it
and shall not appear in a larger font size than that of the sales denomination.
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(b) Dilution of a spirit drink
Article 10(2) of the Spirits Regulation provides that the use of a compound
term as referred to in Art 10(1) shall also be prohibited where a spirit drink has
been diluted so that the alcoholic strength is reduced to below the minimum
strength specified in the definition for that spirit drink.
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Article 5 of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 716/2013 pro-
vides that for the purpose of Art 10(2) of the Spirits Regulation, the reduction
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OJ L 201/21, 26.7.2013 pp. 21-30.
