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If you process, store or trade in wine or grape must on a commercial basis, you are obliged to report your wine and grape must stocks to the competent regional office. This does not apply to retailers.

If you process, store or trade in wine or grape must on a commercial basis, you must report your stocks to the competent regional office by the deadline of July 31 of the respective year.

If the deadline is not listed below, you must ask the responsible regional office. As a guide: As a producer, processor, bottler or trader (except retailers), you must submit your stock declarations by 10.09. at the latest. However, the EU member states can set an earlier deadline. Some federal states have made use of this option:

• Bavaria, Berlin, Brandenburg, North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate: 07.08.
• Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia: 10.08.
• Saxony: 14.8.
• Baden-Württemberg: 20.08.
• Lower Saxony and Saarland: 31.08.
• Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: 01.09.
• Hamburg and Hesse: 10.09.

You must always state the following in the stock declaration:

• Your identity and whether you are reporting as a producer, processor, bottler or trader;
• the storage location of the products;
• for wines:
  • the total stocks, broken down by color (red/rosé or white), type of wine (with PDO, with PGI, varietal wine without PDO/PGI or wine without PDO/PGI), origin (Union or third countries)
  • the type of holder of the stocks (producer or trader) (*see below for explanation);
• for grape must:
  • the total stocks, broken down by color (red/rosé or white), type of grape must (concentrated grape must, rectified concentrated grape must or other grape must),
  • the type of holder of the stocks (producer or trader)*.

Quantities of products from the Union originating from the grape harvest of the same calendar year are not included in this declaration.

* You may have to differentiate between your own and purchased products stored in your own or rented premises on the survey date. It is irrelevant whether these are stored in tanks, barrels or bottles.

• Completed form

• You or your company store, process or handle wine or grape must commercially or trade in it. The following are subject to registration:
  • Businesses that are registered in the vineyard register,
  • Companies not included in the vineyard register that store, process, bottle or trade wine and grape must for commercial purposes, i.e. in particular wineries, sparkling wine producers (champagne cellars) and wholesalers.
  • Exception: retailers.

• none

• Determine your wine and grape must stocks on 31.07. of the respective year.
• You can obtain the form for reporting your wine and grape must stocks from the responsible regional office.
• Complete the form and submit it to the responsible regional office by the deadline. Inquire about the deadline.
• If you have any questions about your declaration, the competent authority will contact you.

• In Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: Notification by 01.09. of the respective year

This is only a notification, no processing necessary.

You must determine your stocks of wine and grape must products on 31.07. and submit them by the deadline. In case of doubt, please ask your competent regional office about the deadline. For orientation: According to EU law, stocks must be reported by September 10th of the respective year at the latest. However, the federal states may have set earlier deadlines.

In Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: Notification by 01.09. of the respective year

This is merely a notification. Therefore, no legal remedy is required.

• Notification of wine and grape must stocks Receipt
• Stocks of wine and grape must as of July 31 of the respective year must be reported to the competent state authority
• The notification must be made by a deadline set by the state governments, but no later than 10.09. of the respective year
• The following must be reported:
  • Businesses that are recorded in the vineyard register,
  • Companies not included in the vineyard register that store, process, bottle or trade wine and grape must for commercial purposes, i.e. in particular wineries, sparkling wine producers (champagne cellars) and wholesalers.
• Exception: retailers
• Required: form from the competent authority
• Notification possible online in some countries
• Notification is free of charge
• responsible:

• Responsible: Ministry for Climate Protection, Agriculture, Rural Areas and the Environment M-V

Ministry for Climate Protection, Agriculture, Rural Areas and the Environment M-V

• Forms available: Yes
• Written form required: Yes
• Informal application possible: No
• Personal appearance necessary: No