No L 214/32 Official Journal of the European Communities 2. 8.91 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2347/91 of 29 July 1991 on the collection of samples of wine products for the purposes of cooperation _between Member States and for analysis by nuclear magnetic resonance, including analysis for the purposes of the Community databank THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 822/87 of 16 March 1987 on the common organization of the market in wine ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1734/91 (%, and in particular Article 79 (3) thereof, Whereas detailed rules should be laid down on the official collection of samples within the framework of the coope- ration between the competent bodies of the Member States provided for in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2048/89 of 19 June 1989 laying down general rules on controls in the wine sector (°) ; whereas the detailed rules on the utilization of such samples must guarantee repre- sentativeness and the possibility of checking the results of official analyses throughout the Community ; whereas, to enable Member States to admit duty-free with a minimum of customs formalities samples officially collected in a Member State and sent from that Member State to a labo- ratory situated in the territory of another Member State, provision should be made for a special label for the trans- mission of such samples ; Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2676/90 (%) recognizes as a Community method the application of nuclear magnetic resonance for the detection of enrich- ment of rectified concentrated grape musts and wines; whereas in order to facilitate the interpretation of the results of this analysis carried out in all the Appropriately equipped laboratories in the Community and to ensure that the results of analyses carried out in different labora- tories can be compared, uniform rules should be laid down concerning the collection of grape samples and the vinification and keeping of the samples; Whereas in order to ensure that the collecting of samples of grapes from vines for analysis by nuclear magnetic resonance can proceed in normal conditions, provision should be made for the winegrowers concerned to facili- tate such collection and to provide the information required under this Regulation ; (') OJ No L 84, 27. 3. 1987, p. 1. () OJ No L 163, 26. 6. 1991, p. 6. () OJ No L 202, 14. 7. 1989, p. 32. () OJ No L 272, 3. 10. 1990, p. 1. Whereas, given the usefulness of the information stored in the databank of the Joint Research Centre at Ispra, hereinafter referred to as the ‘JRC’, as referred to in Article 16 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 2048/89, for the purpose of monitoring the correct application of Commu- nity rules concerning the alcoholic strength by volume of wine products, particularly as regards the use of sucrose, provision should be made for the Commission to ensure the coordination and execution of the collection and further treatment of samples of grapes to be analysed by nuclear magnetic resonance of deuterium, the results of which analyses are to be entered in the abovementioned databank ; whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2348/91 of 29 July 1977 concerning a databank for the results of analyses of wine products by nuclear magnetic resonance of deuterium (%) lays down the detailed rules of application for the creation of this databank ; Whereas in order to simplify administratively the ques- tion of responsibility for costs of taking and sending samples, making analytical and organoleptic examinations and engaging the services of exxperts, the principle should be laid down that these costs ape to be met by the body which ordered the sample to be taken or the expert to be engaged; Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1714/81 of 26 June 1981 on detailed implementing rules for direct cooperation between the bodies designated to verify compliance with provisions in the wine sector () contains rules concerning the collection of samples to be sent to an official laboratory in another Member State, and certain provisions which have been superseded by subse- quent Community provisions ; whereas the Regulation in question should therefore be redrafted and rules should be laid down on the collection of samples intended for analysis by nuclear magnetic resonance of deuterium as a special case of collecting samples of a wine product within the framework of the direct cooperation between the bodies responsible for verifying compliance with Community provisions in different Member States ; Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Wine, (*) See page 39 of this Official Journal. () OJ No L 170, 27. 6. 1981, p. 28.