Article 4, Paragraph 2., Point (a) · Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2026/2093

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(a)a substantial increase of the average of estimated ending wine stocks in the previous five marketing years, compared to the average of estimated ending wine stocks in the previous 10 marketing years. The increase of estimated wine stocks in the previous five marketing years shall also be significantly bigger than the increase in average wine production over the same reference period of the previous 10 marketing years.The estimated ending wine stocks of a marketing year mean the actual ending wine stocks of that marketing year increased by the quantities of wine removed from the market in the same marketing year by national or Union distillation or green harvesting. The quantity of wine removed by green harvesting is calculated by converting the area subject to green harvesting into wine volume equivalent at average yield in the same year in the same geographical area where it has been applied;