Wine Law

26 operators and groups of operators 43 . Article 35 of the regulation regulates the certificate, establishing that the competent authorities or, where appropriate, the control authorities or control bodies will grant a certificate to any operator or group of operators that has notified their activity in accordance with this Regulation. The certificate will be issued in electronic format as far as possible, and will allow at least the identification of the operator or group of operators, in particular the list of members, the category of products covered by the certificate and its period of validity. Likewise, it will certify that the notified activity is in accordance with the standard and will be issued in accordance with the model established in Annex VI. No operator or group of operators 44 shall have the right to obtain from more than one control body a certificate for the activities carried out in the same Member State, in relation to the same category of products, even when the operator or group of operators participates in various stages of production, preparation and distribution. Nor will they be entitled to obtain an individual certificate with respect to any of the activities covered by the certification of the group to which the operators belong. The Regulation allows Member States to exempt operators who sell non-packaged organic products other than feed from the obligation to be in possession of a certificate, provided that these operators do not produce, prepare, store, except in relationship with the point of sale, neither import said products from third countries, nor subcontract to a third party to carry out such activities; and provided that: a) said sales do not exceed 5,000 kg per year, b) do not represent an annual turnover of unpacked organic products exceeding 20,000 EUR, or c) the potential cost of certification of the operator exceeds 2% of the total turnover of unpackaged organic products sold by the operator 45 . 43 When complying, the Member States shall observe the requirements regarding the protection of personal data in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council, of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation). 44 Each group of operators will be made up solely of farmers or operators who produce algae or aquaculture animals, and who, in addition, may be engaged in the transformation, preparation or marketing of food or feed. 45 The Member State that decides to exempt operators may set stricter limits than those established in this rule. These decisions have to be communicated to the Commission and to the rest of the Member States.