Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1303 of 25 April 2022 amending Regulation (EU) 2019/787 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the definition of and requirements for ethyl alcohol of agricultural origin

Article 5 of Regulation (EU) 2019/787 is replaced by the following:

Article 5

Definition of and requirements for ethyl alcohol of agricultural origin

For the purposes of this Regulation, ethyl alcohol of agricultural origin is a liquid which complies with the following requirements:

(a) it has been obtained through alcoholic fermentation, followed by distillation exclusively of agricultural products listed in Annex I to the Treaty;

(b) it has no detectable taste other than that of the raw materials used in its production;

(c) its minimum alcoholic strength by volume is 96,0 %;

(d) its maximum levels of residues do not exceed the following:

(i) ethyl acetate: 1,3 grams per hectolitre of 100 % vol. alcohol;

(ii) acetaldehyde (sum of ethanal and 1,1-diethoxyethane): 0,5 grams per hectolitre of 100 % vol. alcohol;

(iii) higher alcohols (sum of: propan-1-ol, butan-1-ol, butan-2-ol, 2- methylpropan-1-ol, 2-methylbutan- 1-ol and 3-methylbutan-1-ol): 0,5 grams per hectolitre of 100 % vol. alcohol;

(iv) methanol: 30 grams per hectolitre of 100 % vol. alcohol;

(v) furfural: 0,5 grams per hectolitre of 100 % vol. alcohol..

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 25 April 2022.

For the Commission

The President

Ursula von der Leyen