3.10.90 Official Journal of the European Communities 1 I (Acts whose publication is obligatory) COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 000/90 of 17 September 1990 determining Community methods for the analysis of wines 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 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1325/90 (?), and in particular Article 74 thereof, Whereas Article 74 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 822/87 prescribes the adoption of methods of analysis for establishing the composition of the products indicated - in Article 1 of that Regulation and of rules for checking whether these products have been subjected to treat- ments in violation of authorized oenological pratice; Whereas, inasmuch as the Community has not yet laid down maximum levels for substances whose presence indicates that certain oenological practices have been " used and has not yet adopted tables enabling analysis data to be compared, there is good reason to authorize Member States to determine such maximum lévels; Whereas Article 13 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 822/87 provides for an analytical test, including at the least an assessment of the characteristics, as listed in the Annex to that Regulation, of the quality wine psr in question; Whereas the verification of the particulars on docu- ments concerning the products in question calls for the introduction of uniform methods of analysis to ensure that accurate and comparable information is obtained; whereas, consequently, these methods should be com- pulsory for all commercial transactions and al verifica- tion procedures; whercas, however, in view of the trade’s limited facilities, a restricted number of usual procedures should be admitted enabling the requisite factors to be determined rapidly and with reasonable accuracy; Whereas, as far as is possible, generally recognized methods such as those developed under the 1954 Inter- national Convention for the Unification of Methods of (') OJ NoL84,27.3. 1987, p. 1. () OJ NoL 13223.5.1990, p. 19. Analysis and Appraisal of Wines, which are published in the Recueil des méthodes internationales d’analyse des vins (Compendium of international methods for the analysis of wines) by the International Office of Vine and Wine, may usefully be retained; Whereas the Community methods of analysis appli- cable to wine were laid down in Commission Regula- tion (EEC) No 1108/82 (3); whereas scientific progress has made it necessary to replace certain of the methods by some that are more suitable, to modify others, and to introduce new methods, particularly those approved since the aforesaid Regulation by the International Off- ice of Vine and Wine; whereas, because of the profu- sion and complexity of these changes, all the analyses should be reassembled in a new Regulation, and Regu- lation (EEC) No 1108/82 should be repealed; Whereas, in order to ensure the comparability of the results obtained by applying the analytical methods referred to in Article 74 of Regulation (EEC) No 822/ 87, steps should be taken to refer, in regard to the accu- racy, repeatability and reproducibility of these results, to the definitions laid down by the International Office of Vine and Wine; Whereas, in order to recognize the scientific advances on the one hand and the technical equipment of offi- cial laboratories on the other, and with the aim of increasing the efficiency and profitability of these laboratories, there is good reason to allow automated analytical methods to be applied under certain condi- tions; whereas it is important to specify that, where a dispute arises, the automated methods may not replace the reference methods and the usual methods; Whereas the results of a density measurement using the automated method based on the principle of the fre- quency oscillator are, in respect of their accuracy, repeatability and reproducibility, at least as good as the results obtained by the methods listed in section 1 of the Annex to the present Regulation for measuring the density or specific gravity; whereas it is therefore indi- cated, by virtue of Article 74 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 822/87, that this automated method shall be con- () OJNoL133,14.5.1982,p. 1.