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Confédération Européenne des Vignerons Indépendants

CEVI

CEVI represents European independent winegrowers who manage production from vineyard to sales.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Valérie Hayer (Member of the European Parliament)

21 May 2025 · Rules for Wine

Meeting with Gilles Pennelle (Member of the European Parliament)

2 Apr 2025 · Discussion autour des enjeux de la filière vin

Meeting with Eric Sargiacomo (Member of the European Parliament) and Coordination Rurale Union Nationale

25 Feb 2025 · Salon international de l'agriculture

Meeting with Laurence Farreng (Member of the European Parliament)

25 Feb 2025 · Challenges européens de la viticulture

Meeting with Gilles Pennelle (Member of the European Parliament)

25 Feb 2025 · Discussions autour des enjeux de la filière viticole

Meeting with Christophe Clergeau (Member of the European Parliament) and Unilever and SEMAE

25 Feb 2025 · ENVI

Meeting with Céline Imart (Member of the European Parliament)

25 Feb 2025 · Agriculture

Meeting with Tomas Baert (Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen) and European farmers and

3 Dec 2024 · Trade tensions - strategic thinking for agri-food trade

Meeting with François Kalfon (Member of the European Parliament)

19 Nov 2024 · Accord commercial UE-Mercosur

Meeting with Arash Saeidi (Member of the European Parliament)

19 Nov 2024 · reception

Meeting with Valérie Hayer (Member of the European Parliament)

1 Oct 2024 · Vin

Meeting with Eric Sargiacomo (Member of the European Parliament)

10 Sept 2024 · Wine and spirits

Meeting with Christophe Clergeau (Member of the European Parliament)

15 Nov 2023 · Situation générale de la filière viticole

Meeting with Irène Tolleret (Member of the European Parliament)

18 Jul 2023 · Viticulture

Meeting with Christophe Clergeau (Member of the European Parliament)

18 Jul 2023 · Situation générale de la filière viticole

Meeting with Christophe Grudler (Member of the European Parliament)

1 Mar 2023 · Appellations européennes

Meeting with Irène Tolleret (Member of the European Parliament)

28 Feb 2023 · Politique agricole commune

Response to Indication of wine ingredients and adaptation of the rules for geographical indications in the wine sector

23 Feb 2023

CEVI, the European Confederation of Independents Winegrowers (www.cevi-eciw.eu) is the only organisation representing and defending the interests of independent winegrowers at European level. CEVI counts today 12 000 members from 12 different States. Independent winegrowers are entrepreneurs at the head of a micro / small enterprise, often a family business. They make everything from the vineyard to the glass meaning that they produce and sell their wines directly to the consumer. CEVI welcomes the opportunity to provide feedback on the recently released Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) / of XXX amending Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/33 as regards certain provisions on the presentation of compulsory particulars for grapevine products and specific rules for the indication and designation of ingredients for grapevine products. However, considering the short delay of the implementation, CEVI is asking the European Commission to finalised and publish the Delegated Regulation as soon as possible. CEVI deeply suggests to use may contain and/or and withdraw where at least one is present in the finished product. That version better reflects the reality of practices and makes it possible to preserve the flexibility necessary for wine, a product that does not correspond to a pre-established recipe and that evolves over time. CEVI asks the European Commission to allow exemptions for all wines produced before 8 December 2023.
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Meeting with Elena Lizzi (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur) and European Federation of Origin Wines

15 Feb 2023 · Geographical indication reform

Meeting with Irène Tolleret (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

8 Nov 2022 · Vin, titiculture

Independent winegrowers urge realistic timelines for new pesticide rules

19 Sept 2022
Topic — The EU is revising rules to reduce the risks and impacts of pesticides.
Message — Independent winegrowers must have access to safe, effective, and affordable tools. The 2030 deadline is too soon and does not reflect agricultural cycles. They also demand clearer definitions regarding sensitive areas where pesticides are banned.123
Why — Avoiding new regulations would prevent increased administrative and financial burdens for small businesses.45
Impact — Organic wine production would vanish if essential substances like copper are banned.6
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Response to Evaluation of the rates and structures of excise duty on alcohol and alcoholic beverages

4 Jul 2022

The European Confederation of Independent Winegrowers (CEVI) represents and defends the interests of the European Independent Winegrowers. They grow their own vine and produce themselves their wine, and in most cases run family businesses. They directly sell the fruits of their labour to the consumers, and actively contribute to the development of the entrepreneurial fabric of the internal market. Independent winegrowers play a key role in many rural areas, and have a positive impact on the local dynamism and economy. However, independent winegrowers have suffered the negative impact of the sanitary crisis, in addition to other local factors of difficulty (climatic hazards, US customs duties, supply of dry materials ...), in order to allow the wine sector to recover, it is advisable not to increase the minimum rates of excise duties. Wine is an agricultural product, which changes from year to year depending on the weather conditions. It is not a recipe that is entirely controlled by the winegrowers. With this regards, flexibility is crucial. The European Union must insure a fluid single market to economic operators and to consumers. Increasing the minimum excise duty rate will benefit neither to producers, neither to consumers. SMEs, such as the independent winegrowers are supporting a heavy administrative burden and cost that would be exacerbated by changing the minimum excise duty rate. Indeed, independent winegrowers need stability and consistence, therefore having a moving variable base would hamper intra-EU trade and weaken SMEs. The inflation rate base was rejected because is very fluctuating and different from one Member State to another, as well as the alcohol by volume changes from one wine to another and from one vintage to another. This situation will create a lack of visibility and an extra-cost for independent winegrowers. It would seriously fragilise the activity of SMEs towards the large structures. Moreover, taxation should be based on volume to avoid disrupt competition between regions and countries and even with third-countries. CEVI is proposing since many years to build a one-stop shop for excise duty payment which will significantly reduce the risk of fraud. But, the European Commission have not created yet. An increase in minimum excise rates does not seem to affect consumption patterns but the price only. This would penalise all consumers, the majority of whom are moderate. Moreover, the argument of taxation to reduce hazardous consumption is debated, as several studies have shown that heavy drinkers are less sensitive to alcohol prices than moderate consumers. On one hand, in France, the drastic increase in beer taxes (+160% in 2013) did not have a long-term effect on beer consumption, with a short decline followed by a recovery and then an increase in consumption. On the other hand, the stability of wine circulation duties (excluding inflation) has had no effect on wine consumption, which has been in structural decline since the 1960s. To tackle harmful consumption patterns, consumer education should be a priority. CEVI, for all of that reasons, truly believes that minimum excise duty rate should remain the same, zero. And the base, should also remain the hectolitre. Maintaining these conditions are essential to build sustainable activities for independent winegrowers in Europe.
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Response to Revision of the EU geographical indications(GI) systems in agricultural products and foodstuffs, wines and spirit drinks

28 Jun 2022

The European Confederation of Independent Winegrowers (CEVI) represents and defends the interests of the European Independent Winegrowers. They grow their own vine and produce themselves their wine, and in most cases run family businesses. They directly sell the fruits of their labour to the consumers, and actively contribute to the development of the entrepreneurial fabric of the internal market. Independent winegrowers play a key role in many rural areas, and have a positive impact on the local dynamism and economy. CEVI welcomes the open consultation process on the EU’s food quality scheme. The EU drives for decades the production of quality products and that preserves sustainable rural area. The new Common Agriculture Policy will reinforce several tools for the GIs and CEVI calls on the European Commission to support these innovative elements and their implementation. CEVI believes that the priority of the EU quality scheme is to support GIs producers and their long-term sustainable commitment. 1. The single CMO must be GI wine provisions unique framework GI wines rules are within the framework of the wine specific regulation, which is the Single Common Market Organisation (CMO). The EC through the GI review proposes to split the wine policy into two legal instruments. We believe that this would deeply affect GI wines. The European wine sector is composed in majority of products under a GI, indeed EU average: around 65%, and in some of the leading wine producing Member States up to 90%. So, all the EU provisions related to wine are within the Single CMO framework. Having two separate regulations will create complexity and administrative burden for our SMEs. 2. DG AGRI must remain fully in charge of the product specification management In the EU, GIs are not mere Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs). There are other major dimensions to them. They are an agricultural and rural development tool, they allow for derogations to competition law (ex. rules on yields, plantations, etc.) and their specifications provide for adaptations to societal demands. All these elements are inherent to GIs and their policy. GI product specifications cannot be reduced to the protection of a geographical name. The historical dimension of the law applicable to them is essential. The agricultural essence of wine GIs must be prevalent because without this notion there is no more wine GIs. 3. The subsidiarity must be the rule to producer group management Currently, GI producer groups are managed at national level. Therefore, very different structures in place from one Member State to another. An efficient structure allows an efficient GI. 4. The three aspects of sustainability are rooted to GIs All sustainability undertakings should remain on a voluntary basis. Independent winegrowers play a key role on economic, social and environmental sustainability in the rural areas. The production of non-localizable GI wines maintains the dynamism and attractiveness of these rural areas, while shaping the landscape with a heightened environmental awareness. 5. The control must be simplified CEVI believes that these checks may be limited to administrative controls when they are secure and make it possible to ensure full compliance with the requirements and conditions laid down in the product specifications. 6. The protection must be stronger - When GIs is used as ingredients - Online - Evocation and genericity
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Meeting with Gilles Lebreton (Member of the European Parliament)

10 May 2022 · Congrès annuel des vignerons indépendants européens

Meeting with Jérémy Decerle (Member of the European Parliament)

3 Mar 2022 · Agroécologie dans la viticulture

Response to Revision of Food Information to Consumers for what concerns labelling rules on alcoholic beverages

22 Jul 2021

CEVI is the only organisation representing and defending the interests of independent winegrowers at European level. CEVI counts today 12 000 members from 13 different States. Independent winegrowers are entrepreneurs at the head of a micro/small enterprise, often a family business. They make everything from the field to the bottle meaning that they produce and sell their wines directly to the consumer. Enclosed you may find our contribution to the roadmap consultation on the revision of food information to consumers for alcohol beverages. https://cevi-eciw.eu/
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Meeting with Catherine Geslain-Laneelle (Cabinet of Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski)

8 Jan 2020 · Dairy market

Meeting with Nathalie Chaze (Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis)

19 Feb 2019 · Alcohol labelling

Meeting with Nathalie Chaze (Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis) and European farmers and European agri-cooperatives

21 Nov 2018 · Alcohol labelling

Meeting with Nathalie Chaze (Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis) and European farmers and European agri-cooperatives

8 Oct 2018 · Alcohol labelling

Meeting with Nathalie Chaze (Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis) and European farmers and European agri-cooperatives

21 Sept 2018 · Alcohol labelling

Meeting with Léon Delvaux (Cabinet of President Jean-Claude Juncker)

26 Jul 2018 · Agriculture - wine

Meeting with Jerzy Bogdan Plewa (Director-General Agriculture and Rural Development) and Comité Européen des Entreprises Vins and

5 Jul 2018 · Exchange of view on wine market

Meeting with Nathalie Chaze (Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis)

25 May 2018 · Alcohol labelling

Meeting with Nathalie Chaze (Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis) and European farmers and

10 Apr 2018 · Alcohol labelling

Meeting with Vytenis Andriukaitis (Commissioner) and

12 Mar 2018 · Alcohol labelling

Meeting with Nathalie Chaze (Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis)

14 Dec 2017 · Alcohol labelling

Meeting with Vytenis Andriukaitis (Commissioner) and

7 Nov 2017 · Labelling

Meeting with Christiane Canenbley (Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan)

19 May 2016 · Reform of the wine sector