All undertakings active in the production of wine, the bottling of wine products, the marketing of wine products before the wine-making stage, and the marketing of bottled wines, with the exception of retailers, must be entered in the wine business register.
Registration is done electronically through the corresponding digital service of the Ministry of Rural Development and Food.
Mandatory wine product declarations
Production declaration
All natural or legal persons, including cooperative wineries, producing wine/or must for commercial purposes or commissioning its production on their behalf shall be required to submit a production declaration during the wine year concerned.
The production declaration shall be submitted electronically starting on 1 October of each current year and ending on 15 January of the following year.
Processing/Marketing Statement
Winegrowers, producers and traders of grapes, grape juice and grape must who, before the dates fixed for the submission of production and harvest declarations, have processed or marketed wine products intended for the production of wine shall be required to submit a treatment or marketing declaration in respect of the wine year in which the treatment or marketing took place.
Declarations shall be submitted electronically no later than 10 December of each year.
Stock declaration
All wine producers, processors, bottlers and traders holding stocks - bottled or unbottled - are required to submit each year a declaration of stocks of wine and must held on 31 July, regardless of the year of their harvest.
In the following cases of non-submission of the mandatory declarations within the prescribed deadlines, penalties arise in the form of a pecuniary fine and are imposed in accordance with the procedures set out in Law 4235/2014:
a) cases where the deadline for submission of the declaration is exceeded by a maximum of 15 working days, where the amount of the fine is calculated in accordance with Table 1.
b) cases where the declaration has not been submitted by the debtor, where the amount of the fine is calculated in accordance with Table 2.
| TABLE 1 LATE SUBMISSION OF PRODUCTION/PRODUCTION/TRADE/STOCKS DECLARATION | ||
| SIZE OF WINE PRODUCTION (HEADS) | CASE OF DELAY SUBMISSION OF THE DECLARATION 1-5 days | CASE OF DELAY SUBMISSION OF THE DECLARATION 6-15 days |
| <100 | 200 € | 400 € |
| 100,1 to 500 | 500€ | 1.000€ |
| 500,1 to 1,000 | 1.000 € | 1.500 € |
| > 1.000 | 1.500 € | 2.000 € |
| TABLE 2 CASE OF NON-SUBMISSION OF A DECLARATION | |
| SIZE OF WINE PRODUCTION (HEADS) | FINES |
| <100 | 2.000 € |
| 100,1 to 500 | 5.000 € |
| 500,1 to 1,000 | 7.000 € |
| > 1.000 | 10.000 € |
In addition to the penalties mentioned in Table 2, the undertakings/producers concerned who do not submit the compulsory declarations do not benefit from the various benefits of the measure of investments in wine-making enterprises for the financial year following the year of submission of their application.
Source: Decision No 2453/235850 (Government Gazette, Series II, No , 3673, 3.10.2019) laying down additional measures for the implementation of Regulations (EU) 2018/273 and (EU) 2018/274 as regards production, processing, marketing and stock declarations in the wine sector.
