Report grape harvest and wine production for products from own produce (TEM / WEM)

You must report your grape harvest or wine production in writing. You can obtain a form for this purpose from the responsible office. Fill out the form accordingly and submit it to them.

Alternatively, you can also register your grape harvest and wine production in the online viticulture service.

In Rhineland-Palatinate, you can download the form from the homepage of the Rhineland-Palatinate Chamber of Agriculture, print it out, fill it in and submit it to the responsible office.

You can also report your grape harvest and wine production via the Wine Information Portal (WIP). To do this, log in to the wine information portal (WIP) of the Rhineland-Palatinate Chamber of Agriculture with your access data and call up the input mask for reporting the grape harvest and wine production. Enter all the required data there. When you finally click on the "Send" button, your report will be sent to the responsible office.

You can submit the declarations to the municipal administrations of the municipalities not belonging to an association, to the municipal administrations of the municipalities belonging to an association, to the municipal administrations of independent and large towns belonging to a district or directly to the Rhineland-Palatinate Chamber of Agriculture.

Rhineland-Palatinate Chamber of Agriculture

You are required to register as a winegrower, grape producer, cooperative or recognized producer group that accepts grapes or mash with the exception of

• full-delivery member companies of a cooperative or recognized producer group
• businesses whose vineyard area is less than 0.1 hectares and which do not market the products derived from it

obligated.

Natural or legal persons or their associations, including cooperative wineries, who take over grapes, mash, grape must, grape must in fermentation or new wine from another business are obliged to register.

They shall notify the competent authority of the quantity of grape must, grape must in fermentation or wine produced from these grapes and the quantities of products delivered unchanged.

If less than 10 hectoliters of wine were produced from purchased products, the producer is only obliged to report if these or parts thereof are marketed.

free of charge

You must report your grape harvest and wine production to the competent authority by January 15 of the year following the harvest. Grapes harvested after 15.01., for example for ice wine, must be reported immediately.

Grape harvest and wine production declaration: Art. 31 and 33 Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2018/273 of December 11, 2017 (OJ L 58 of February 28, 2018 p. 1); Art. 22 and 24 of the
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/274 of December 11, 2017 (OJ L 58 of February 28, 2018 p. 60);
§ Section 33 of the Wine Act in the version published on January 18, 2011 (BGBl. I. p. 66)

• § 29 Wine Monitoring Ordinance
• § Section 72 of the Agricultural Statistics Act as amended (AgrStatG)
• § Section 73 of the Agricultural Statistics Act as amended (AgrStatG)
• § Section 74 of the Agricultural Statistics Act as amended (AgrStatG)
• § Section 75 of the Agricultural Statistics Act as amended (AgrStatG)
• State ordinance on the implementation of wine law

This is purely a notification. Therefore, no legal remedy is required.

Forms available: Yes

Written form required: Yes

Informal application possible: No

Personal appearance necessary: No

Online services available: Yes

Full-delivery members of a cooperative or recognized producer association are not required to register.

Grape producers or winegrowers whose vineyard area is less than 0.1 hectares and who do not market any part of their harvest in any form are also not required to notify .

In Rhineland-Palatinate, a distinction is made between declarations for own and purchased products. Therefore, there is an additional declaration only for purchased products.

21.12.2022
13.02.2025