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Federación Española del Vino

FEV

Constituyen los fines de la Federación: 1) Definir las orientaciones de la política sectorial. 2) Comparecer ante cualesquiera autoridades judiciales o administrativas, por escrito o a través de representantes, coadyuvando con las empresas o personas miembros en la defensa de los intereses particulares, coincidentes con los fines de la Federación. 3) Defender la imagen del sector de empresas dedicadas a la elaboración y comercio de vino, vinos aromatizados, vinos espumosos, vinos de licor, mostos, mistelas y vinagres que la Federación representa en los medios de comunicación y ante la opinión pública en general. 4) Representar al colectivo que constituyen las empresas del sector ante los distintos organismos de la Unión Europea así como los organismos internacionales. 5) Responder a las necesidades laborales, económicas, sindicales, fiscales y mercantiles de las empresas del sector, mediante instrumentos como la negociación colectiva, el diálogo social, la participación (...)

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Esther Herranz García (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

19 Mar 2025 · The state of Wine in Spain

Meeting with Elena Nevado Del Campo (Member of the European Parliament)

14 Feb 2025 · Introduction

Response to Single Market Strategy 2025

31 Jan 2025

Please find attached the contribution of the Spanish Wine Federation (Federación Española del Vino - FEV) on the Single Market Strategy. Thank you
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Meeting with Mireia Borrás Pabón (Member of the European Parliament)

10 Sept 2024 · AGRI

Meeting with Idoia Mendia (Member of the European Parliament)

5 Sept 2024 · Meeting with Federación Española del Vino (FEV)

Meeting with César Luena (Member of the European Parliament)

5 Sept 2024 · Wine

Response to Evaluation of the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA)

25 Apr 2024

Canada is a priority market for Spanish wines. In 2023 Spanish exports of wine products reached a total of 34 million liters and 127 million euros, with an average price of 3.75/liter, placing it as the second market in terms of average price behind Switzerland. Even if 2023 has reflected a slight decrease in terms of volume and value in comparison to the previous year (-5% and -1% respectively), since the entry into force of CETA exports have increased 11% in terms of volume and 45% in terms of value compared to 2016, maintaining a trajectory of growth year-to-year. Since the entry into force of CETA in 2017, there has been some progress for our sector in its implementation regarding the Cost-of-service differentials and, more recently, the update of the annexes to the 2003 Agreement on Geographical Indications & oenological practices. CETA serves as a crucial platform for addressing ongoing challenges faced by our members, especially at the provincial level. Through dialogue between EU and Canadian authorities, facilitated by the CETA Trade in Goods Committee and the CETA Wine & Spirits Committee, we aim to resolve these issues effectively. Despite advancements, significant discrimination persists against local wines, hindering fair competition between EU and local producers. The Wine & Spirits Annex (Annex 30-C) within CETA offers a framework for gradually eliminating them. The main discriminatory practices that favor in-province wine producers in Canada are the following: - Greater market access opportunities for local wines through distribution channels outside the Liquor Boards, such as farmers' markets or wineries' private stores. - Preferential mark-ups or rate/tax reductions that benefit local products originating from the provinces applied by the Liquor Boards or other retail channels. - And the failure to apply the requirements imposed by Liquor Boards in their network to local products in retail or private sales channels, to which imported ones do not have access.
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Meeting with César Luena (Member of the European Parliament)

5 Jul 2023 · PPWR

Response to Application of EU health and environmental standards to imported agricultural and agri-food products

16 Mar 2022

FEV supports the EU objective to promote greater sustainability at global level to influence the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals and we welcome Commission willingness to have a transparent and informed debate on the application to imports of certain production standards, including environmental standards. In this framework, FEV would like to raise the following points developped in the attached document: - EU standards to be promoted in international fora. - EU policy on imports of agri-food products is a success in achieving food safety and openness based on predictable rules. - Private schemes are complementary to legislation when it comes to promotion of greater sustainability on imports. - The concept of ‘mirroring clauses’ should be discussed in the context of the Chapter on Sustainable Food System, negotiated in new Free Trade Agreements (FTAs).
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Response to Revision of Food Information to Consumers for what concerns labelling rules on alcoholic beverages

16 Jul 2021

Federación Española del Vino (FEV) represents the wine and aromatized wine companies in the industry and trade in Spain. It brings together more than 700 wineries, which produce over 75% of bottled wine value in Spain. We reiterate our commitment to providing consumers with relevant, clear and easy to understand information, improving their knowledge about wine and aromatised wine products, and empowering them to make informed decisions on the products they choose to consume within a balanced lifestyle. 1. Purpose and scope – Maintain the application of lex specialis as agreed under the CAP Considering that Article 16(4) of FIC Regulation exempts alcoholic beverages above 1.2% abv from the mandatory indication of the list of ingredients and nutrition declaration, the EU wine sector requested proactively to EU policy-makers to develop mandatory provisions on nutritional declaration and list of ingredients for wines and aromatised wine products. In this respect, the European Parliament and the Council have agreed to include specific rules, in the framework of the CAP post-2020 reform, on wine Common Market Organisation and in the EU regulation for aromatised wine products. We, therefore, call the European Commission to acknowledge co-legislators’ decision and to exclude wines and aromatised wine products from the scope of the revision of the FIC on this particular topic. 2. Content of the rules – Maintain the specific provisions as agreed under the CAP The rules agreed by co-legislators in the framework of the CAP reform, appropriately consider the specificity of the wine and aromatised wine products sectors and the special characteristics of these products and their system of product to avoid market fragmentation, competitiveness distortion while providing consumers with relevant information in a transparent way. Considering the structure of the wine sector, dominated by micro and small companies, and the heterogeneity of the products produced by every wine company, to ensure a level playing field amongst food business operators across the sectors, it will be more important to maintain the existing rules agreed for wines than to harmonise labelling requirements for all alcoholic beverages. While requesting the mandatory communication of the list of ingredients and the full nutrition declaration in line with the general rules of FIC, co-legislators approach includes some adapted ad hoc rules such as the language-free communication of the energy content to avoid market fragmentation and the multiplication of labels. They also foresee the development of secondary legislation to provide further rules concerning wine list of ingredients. 3. New ways to provide information to consumers - use of digital tools Co-legislators agreed to authorize the use of digital tools (e-labels) for the provision of the list of ingredients and nutrition declaration under certain conditions (among others the mandatory presence on the label of the energy content and the reference to allergenic substances). Digital information has the potential to improve consumers information while reducing market fragmentation. The use of e-labels to inform consumers, as a complement and an alternative to label, helps to ensure a high degree of adaptability for economic operators, providing them with a flexibility that could particularly help reduce the burden for SMEs. This flexibility is especially important for the wine sector. In parallel, e-labels seem to be best fit to help consumers to consult detailed, tailored and up-to-date information, in their own language, while avoiding disruption of trade flows.
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Response to Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan

3 Mar 2020

FEV is the national association that represents the Spanish wine sector among the Spanish, European and international authorities. A.1. CONTEXT FEV welcomes the EC’s decision to involve non-state actors in the EU Cancer Plan and reaffirms its strong commitment to support any action aimed at reducing harmful use of alcohol and promote balance lifestyles. In fact, the UN Political Declaration on Non-communicable Diseases of 2018 invites our industry to “contribute to reducing harmful use of alcohol” and to “take concrete steps”. While heavy or excessive consumption of alcohol beverages can have a harmful impact on health and is clearly associated with increased morbidity and mortality from some forms of cancer and other diseases, a moderate consumption of wine can indeed be part of a balanced and healthy lifestyle, such as the Mediterranean diet, and may have a number of positive and protective effects on health, including reducing the risk of cancers. A.2. PROBLEMS THE INITIATIVE AIMS TO TACKLE Any action should be based on scientific evidence and be considered to achieve the given goals. • Risk associated with excessive drinking: Excessive consumption of alcoholic beverages and binge drinking patterns are clearly associated with increased morbidity and mortality from several forms of cancer and other diseases. • Moderate consumption of wine - Even a moderate consumption of alcoholic beverages can be associated with some cancers when considering alcohol in isolation. However, when wine consumption is considered as part of a healthy lifestyle (including regular physical exercise, a balanced diet, a normal weight, non-smoking), the risk is not increased and may even be decreased. - There is consistent scientific evidence of moderate consumption of wine decreasing the risk of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, osteoporosis and dementia. • Healthy lifestyle and balanced diet, including a moderate consumption of wine by adults, can have positive health effects - Adopting a healthy lifestyle and a balanced diet, such as the Mediterranean diet (considered as one of the healthiest in the world by the WHO), has positive and protective effects on health, including reducing the risk of cancer. - A light to moderate consumption of wine can be part of such healthy lifestyle and balanced diet, without increasing the total cancer risk but rather decreasing it. - Drinking patterns are also important: it is best to drink wine in moderation, with meals, alternating with water and to avoid binge drinking. B. WHAT DOES THE INITIATIVE AIM TO ACHIEVE AND HOW It should focus on the following objectives: 1. Prevent and further reduce abusive and harmful consumption of alcoholic beverages 2. Promote a healthy lifestyle and a balanced diet, which can include a moderate consumption of wine by adults To reach them, the following ideas should be taken into consideration: - Promote educational initiatives on responsible drinking patterns such as the Wine in Moderation programme - Implement communication and information campaigns at local, national and multinational level on the importance of a healthy lifestyle and a balanced diet, which can include moderate wine consumption - Promote truthful and science-based information to consumers, also by means of digital tools - Develop specific measures targeting groups at risk - Acknowledge that consumption taxes such as excise duties are inefficient in tackling alcohol abuse, as they do not distinguish between excessive and responsible drinking and therefore impact on all consumers including moderate ones, instead of targeting heavy drinkers. Consumption taxes can even have an adverse effect by increasing unrecorded alcohol and affecting those who consume moderately. - Suggest a flexible set of actions, to be adjusted by each Member State depending on their priorities and specificities, and involve the private sector in their implementation, to ensure the whole-of-society multi-stakeholder approach
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Meeting with Inga Preikšienė (Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis), Nathalie Chaze (Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis) and Comité Européen des Entreprises Vins

21 Jan 2019 · Alcohol labelling , responsible consumption

Meeting with Miguel Arias Cañete (Commissioner)

17 Jan 2019 · Contribution of the wine sector to the EU climate objectives

Meeting with Cristina Rueda Catry (Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan)

22 Jan 2018 · Topics relating the sector