Wine Law

In the area of competence, the Spanish Constitution states that the Autonomous Communities are the ones responsible when it comes to agriculture, which is why there are many legislations concerning wine coming from the Spanish Autonomous Communities:  Law 2/1999, of 19 March, establishing the Wine and Vine Institute of Castilla-La Mancha (IVICAM) 12 ;  Law 8/2003, of 20 March, of the Vine and Wine of Castilla-La Mancha 13 ;  Law 6/2013, of 14 November, repealing partially Law 8/2003 and totally Law 11/1999, of 26 May, by which the Geographical Indication of Wines of the Land of Castilla is created 14 ;  Law 4/2015, of 23 March, of protection of the quality of the vineyard and the wine of the Autonomous Community of La Rioja 15 ; and  Law 1/2017, of 3 January, on the control of viticultural potential in the Autonomous Community of La Rioja 16 . At the supra-state level, the European Community, whose regulations are applicable to Spain considering its supremacy before the Spanish legal system, has legislated on the matter of wine. We can highlight the following regulations that initially regulated the scope of the wine market, but are no longer in force:  Council Regulation (EEC) No 822/87 of 16 March 1987 on the common organisation of the market in wine 17 ; and  Council Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 of 17 May 1999 on the common organisation of the market in wine 18 . According to Article 13 of Law 24/2003, the wines that are made in Spain, according to the level of requirements they meet, can be differentiated between table wines – which would be separated between table wines and table wines entitled to the traditional mention “ vino de la tierra ” –, quality wines produced in a given region – which can be 12 BOE no. 124, 25 May 1999. 13 BOE no. 132, 3 June 2003. 14 BOE no. 35, 10 February 2014. 15 BOE no. 90, 15 April 2015. 16 BOE no. 17, 20 January 2017. 17 DO L 84, 27 March 1987. 18 DO L 179, 14 July 1999.