Wine Law

340 WINE LAW  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 We can highlight the following regulations that initially regulated the scope of the wine market, but are no longer in force:  Council Regulation (EEC) No 822/87 of 16 March 1987 on the common organisation of the market in wine 17 ; and  Council Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 of 17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 . Following Article 13 of Law 24/2003, the wines 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 distinguished depending on the protection granted: quality wines with a geographical indication or with a designation of origin that can be qualified – and paid wines . The Cava appellation is considered a designation of origin 19 . 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. 19 About the quality labels, see: RAMÓN FERNÁNDEZ, F.: “Los distintivos de calidad y la seguridad en los productos agrarios y agroalimentarios”, Revista General Informática de Derecho , no. 1, 2002; “La regularización de la marca de calidad “CV” en los productos agrarios y agroalimentarios de la Comunidad Valenciana”, Régimen jurídico de la seguridad y calidad de la producción agraria: IX Congreso Nacional de Derecho Agrario, Logroño, 8 y 9 de octubre de 2001 , Ángel Sánchez Hernández & Pedro de Pablo Contreras (coord.), Universidad de La Rioja, Logroño, 2002, pp. 255 and seq .; “La normativa sobre calidad de los productos