Judgment_paragraph 63 · Hungary v European Commission (C-31/13 P)

63It follows from all of the foregoing that an entry made in the E-Bacchus database by the Commission under Article 73(1) of Regulation No 607/2009 concerning wine names recognised by Member States as designations of origin or geographical indications before 1 August 2009, which were not published by the Commission under Article 54(5) of Regulation No 1493/1999, has no effect on the automatic protection which those wine names enjoy at EU level. Indeed, the Commission is not authorised either to grant protection or to decide on the wine name which must be entered in the E-Bacchus database pursuant to Article 73(1). Thus, there is no need to make a distinction between the effects of an entry in the lists of quality wines psr published in the ‘C’ Series of the Official Journal of the European Union and the effects of an entry in the E-Bacchus database.