Eradication of vineyards: EU grants conditional approval

Yes, subject to the uprooting of vineyards: only with national funds and excluding plants in areas where they have a landscape-environmental value, where the rural population draws their main source of income from the vineyard. Therefore, the use of community funds from the PNS (national support plan) is excluded for this new tranche of "scrapping" of EU vineyards. The European budget dedicated to the competitiveness of wine and in particular to the promotion of consumption on foreign markets (a measure already threatened with cuts several times) are safeguarded. And even greater flexibility in the use of the same promotion funds and, last but not least, a better regulatory definition for new wines (dealcoholized) to facilitate their marketing and simplifications on digital labeling. These are the "recommendations" included in the draft of the High Level Group of the European Commission on the Future of Wine in the EU and which go largely in the direction hoped for and supported ...