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EDVR Eaux-de-vie de marc originaires de Franche-Comte, Eaux-de-vie de vin originaires de Franche-Comté machine translated reference / legal text

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Art 1st. -

Only will be able to profit from the denominations “brandies of marc originating in Franche-Comté” and “wine brandies originating in Franche-Comté”, the brandies of marc or wine answering the conditions hereafter enumerated and coming from marc or wines collected and distilled on the territories of the following departments: The Jura, Doubs, Haute-Saône, territory of Belfort.

Art 2. -

The “brandies of marc originating in Franche-Comté” will have to come exclusively from washed healthy marcs or not washed, obtained by a wine making conformed to the local, honest and constant uses. The “wine brandies originating in Franche-Comté” will have to come exclusively from wines showing the characteristics of a healthy, honest and commercial wine, vinified in accordance with the local, honest and constant uses, other than the damaged wines of bad taste. Unsuitable wines with the consumption for any other reason that the insufficiency of alcoholic strength could not be useful for manufacture of brandies. (Addition, D. 31 janv. 1948, art 1st.) - the wines implemented must not have a volatile acidity expressed in sulphuric acid, higher than 1,20 G per liter.

Art 3. -

The brandies regulated by this decree will have to come from marc or wines resulting from type of vines authorized for the production from the wines from the area from Franche-Comté, according to local uses', honest and constant, other than type of vines prohibited by article 96 of the code of the wine.

Art 4. -

(Modified D. April 11, 1946, art 5) - the brandies regulated by this decree will have to be distilled by means of stills with passes by again or of stills with first discontinuous or continuous jet heated with naked fire or with the vapor of a maximum capacity of 200 raw material hl by twenty-four hours. The use of the fractionating columns is prohibited.

Art 5. -

The brandies regulated by this decree will have to present the following degrees of alcohol (at 15° C): 1° (Modified, D. n° 55.1355, Oct 12, 1955, art 1st) - On the outlet side of the apparatuses: 71° G.L to the maximum 2° (Modified, D. 27 janv. 1951, art 5.) - At the moment of the sale to the consumer: 40° G.L at least. In all the cases, they must at least have a content not-alcohol of 500 G per hectolitre of pure alcohol for brandies of marc and 300 G at least per hectolitre of pure alcohol for wine brandies. They will be subjected to the appreciation of interprofessional commissions tasters appointed by the national Committee of the labels of origin under conditions which will be fixed by decree of the minister Secretary of State at agriculture.

Art 6. -

In the establishments where, using the same apparatuses, the alcohols reserved for the State and brandies regulated by this decree would be manufactured, one month a minimum time will have to be run out between this two manufacture.

Art 7. -

On the declarations of harvest, parts of control, labels, or invoices concerning brandies regulated by this decree, the words “brandies of marc originating in Franche-Comté” or “wine brandies originating in Franche-Comté” will have obligatorily to appear. It, moreover, will be allowed to make there appear the name of a label of origin controlled of this area under the condition which the brandy considered comes from marc or wines resulting from grape harvest answering completely the conditions imposed by the decree from control from the label of origin in question; in this particular case, distillation must obligatorily be carried out by means of stills with pass by again.

Art 8. -

The brandies regulated by this decree, when they are declared for manufacture, are offered to the public, are dispatched put on sale or sold, will not have to carry like only mention of guarantee, in the declarations, the advertisements, on the leaflets, invoices labels, containers unspecified, that the words “regulated by decree”.

Art 9. -

The use of any indication or any sign likely to make believe in the purchaser that a brandy is entitled to the one of the denominations regulated above whereas it does not answer all the conditions envisaged with the present decree, will be continued in accordance with the general legislation on the frauds and the protection of the art, labels of origin (L. August 1, 1905 1st and 2; L. May 6, 1919, art 8; D. August 19, 1921, art 13) without damage of the sanctions of a tax nature, if it is necessary, and will make lose with this brandy the benefit of the paragraph C of the law of January 13, 1941. Warning: Information pré senté be on this site are the subject of a clause of nonresponsabilité INAO_19420223_55802/11/2006 Downloadable document: EDVR_Eaux-de-vie_de_marc_de_Franche-Comte__.doc