Wine Law

260 WINE LAW sanctions that, if applicable, may be imposed. The levying of such expenses and penalties may be carried out through the administrative enforcement procedure. As such, the Public Administrations, depending on the nature and severity of the risks detected, may inform the affected consumers and users, through the most appropriate means, of the existing risks or irregularities, the affected good or service and, where appropriate, the measures adopted and the appropriate precautions, both to protect themselves from the risk and to obtain their collaboration in the elimination of its causes. Those responsible for coordinating the State information exchange systems integrated into the European alert systems will forward the communications they receive to the customs authorities when, according to the information provided in the communications, the alerted products or services come from third countries. Finally, in situations of extreme gravity that determine an indiscriminate attack on the health and safety of consumers and users in more than one autonomous community, the Government may exceptionally constitute a body in which the affected Autonomous Communities will be integrated and actively participate. This body, which will be active during the time necessary to put an end to the situation, will assume the administrative powers entrusted to it to guarantee the health and safety of the people, their economic and social interests, the repair of the damages suffered, the requirement of responsibilities and the publication of the results (art. 16). III.2. Indication of the alcoholic content The indication of the beverage’s alcoholic strength is also part of the rights of alcohol consumers so that an erroneous or fraudulent indication logically harms the health of the consumer. In this sense, Royal Decree 1045/1990, of 27 July, which regulates the tolerances allowed for the indication of the alcoholic content by volume on the labelling of alcoholic beverages destined for the final consumer, approves the tolerances allowed for the mention of the alcoholic strength by volume as stated on the labelling of beverages containing more than 1.2% of alcohol by volume, other than those from heading no. 22.04 (wine of fresh grapes, including fortified wines; grape must, except that of heading no. 20.09), of the Combined Nomenclature of the current Customs Tariff. Once the alcoholic strength is fixed at 20 degrees C, the tolerances, either above or below, permitted for the indication of the alcoholic strength, expressed in absolute values, will be, according to article 3: a) beverages not listed below (0.3% by volume); b) beer with an alcoholic strength of less than 5.5% in volume;