Wine Law

20 Of course, in case of containers other than bottles, the words “packager” and “packaged by” shall replace the words “bottler” and “bottled by” respectively, except when the language used does not indicate by itself such a difference. The name and address of the producer or vendor shall be supplemented by the words “producer” or “produced by” and “vendor” or “sold by”, or equivalent. Member States may make compulsory the indication of the producer. The name and address of the importer shall be preceded by the words “importer” or “imported by”. One of these indications may be replaced by a code determined by the Member State in which the bottler, producer, importer or vendor has its head office. The code shall be supplemented by a reference to the Member State in question. The name and address of another natural or legal person involved in the commercial distribution other than the bottler, producer, importer or vendor indicated by a code shall also appear on the wine label of the product concerned. The code determined by Italy is provided for by the ICQRF, as we will see in point 4.2. 2.6. Conflicts between the name of the bottler, producer, importer or vendor and a PDO or a PGI It may well be the case that a producer has a name consisting of, or containing somehow, a PDO or PGI. Where the name or the address of the bottler, producer, importer or vendor consists of or contains a PDO or PGI, it shall appear on the label in characters which are no more than half the size of those used either for the PDO or PGI or for the designation of the category of the grapevine product concerned, or even by using a code 38 . 38 See article 46(6) of Regulation (EU) No 33/2019, previously article 57(6) of Regulation (EC) No 607/2009.