354 WINE LAW Figure 1: Wine production and vineyard surface area in 20204 Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013, by establishing a common organisation of the markets for agricultural products (the CMO Regulation), is of outmost importance for the development of the wine sector in the European Union5. The CMO Regulation, within the Union’s common agricultural policy, lays down a series of instruments for the implementation of the EU wine policy such as a whole variety of support programmes, authorisation schemes for vine planting, the rules on protected designations of origin and the protected geographical indication in the wine sector, certification, monitoring and control systems, as well as other instruments. The aim of all these instruments has been to develop the quality management system of wine production and better management of the wine-growing potential, to strengthen the competitiveness of the European Union in the wine sector, to ensure a smooth functioning of the internal market, to increase the marketability of wine products, to ensure an orderly growth of vine planting and the quality of EU wines, to protect the environment and 4 Graphs taken from the presentation “State of the World Vitivinicultural Sector in 2020, International Organisation of Vine and Wine (OIV), Pau Roca Director General of the OIV, OIV Press Conference, 20 April 2021 published at www.oiv.int/public/medias/7880/oiv-state-of-the-vitivinicultural-world-2020ppt.pdf (visited: 3/8/2021). 5 Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 establishing a common organisation of the markets in agricultural products and repealing Council Regulations (EEC) No 922/72, (EEC) No 234/79, (EC) No 1037/2001 and (EC) No 1234/2007, OJ L 347, 20.12.2013, pp. 671–854 , consolidated text (29/12/2020), published at https://eurlex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A02013R1308-20201229 (visited: 3/8/2021).
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