The Alcoholic Beverages (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2023.

These Regulations make amendments to retained EU law in relation to the labelling of alcoholic beverages and wine products marketed in Wales. These Regulations amend the following retained EU law: 1) Annex 12 to Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the provision of food information to consumers (EUR 2011/1169) (“Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011”); 2) Articles 44 and 50(1) of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/33 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards applications for protection of designations of origin, geographical indications and traditional terms in the wine sector, the objection procedure, restrictions of use, amendments to product specifications, cancellation of protection, and labelling and presentation (EUR 2019/33) (“Regulation (EU) 2019/33”).
Regulation 2 modifies Regulation (EU) No. 1169/2011's Annex 12 in order to allow the use of an alternative indication ("% alc/vol") with a number representing the real alcoholic strength of a beverage to which that Annex applies. This indicator can be used in place of one of the other specified indicators. Amendments to Article 44 of Regulation (EU) 2019/33 are made by Regulation 3(2) to 1) allow the use of an alternative indicator ("% alc/vol") with a figure indicating the actual alcoholic strength of wine and certain other wine sector products instead of one of the other specified indicators; 2) to require the actual alcoholic strength of wine and certain other wine sector products to be indicated to a figure of not more than one decimal point (instead of a requirement that the indication be given in percentage units or half units).