(1)Regulation (EU) 2026/471 of the European Parliament and of the Councilnote introduces a series of measures to adapt the wine production potential, to manage the wine market and to support the wine sector to address the different challenges affecting it and to adapt the sector to new market developments in a context of high international uncertainty. Among other measures, Regulation (EU) 2026/471 enlarged the scope of Article 216 of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013. In addition to distillation of wine, Member States may now seek approval from the Commission to make national payments to support green harvesting and voluntary grubbing up of productive vineyards in cases of crisis under certain conditions. The Commission has been empowered to supplement that Article by laying down rules on the general conditions of eligibility and priority criteria in respect of such national payments, as well as to determine the market situations under which such measures are justified, to determine the calculation method of such payments and to set rules on the coherence with other Common Agricultural Policy support measures.
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