Weinbegleitdokument Entgegennahme

Art. 147 Regulation (EU) No. 1308/2013
Art. 8 - 27 Del. Regulation (EU) 2018/273
Section 30 of the Wine Act
Sections 18-24 of the Wine Monitoring Ordinance

You require a wine accompanying document for the transportation of wine products that have not been bottled.

Wine products are

• Grapes,
• grape must,
• mash,
• wine,
• sparkling wine,
• sparkling wine,
• liqueur wine and
• fortified wine.

The accompanying document authorizes you to transport the wine products from the producer to the further processing or recovery point, for example to a winery. You are obliged to use an accompanying document.

You can obtain the form for the accompanying document from the NRW State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection (LANUV NRW).

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• You transport non-bottled wine products of more than 60 liters.
• You transport wine products in labeled containers of more than 10 liters that are fitted with a non-reusable closure.
• The transportation route of wine products
  • from the vineyard to the wine-making plant,
  • between two plants belonging to the same company,
  • between the facilities of a producer association is over 70 kilometers.

In North Rhine-Westphalia, you apply for the accompanying document for the wine transport online, by post or fax at the inspection authority responsible for the place of loading. You create the accompanying document immediately before the wine transport, when the wine has been loaded onto the transport vehicle and the final number of liters of the transport has been determined.

The accompanying document refers only to this transport and cannot be used for other transports.

The electronic wine accompanying document procedure (eWeinBV) allows you to create the wine accompanying document online:

• Before the upcoming transportation, you log in to the eWeinBV application with your user ID and prepare the electronic wine accompanying document.
• This will guide you step by step through the necessary information, which you can enter online.
• Finally, you confirm that all the information provided is correct.
• The accompanying document is created, receives a unique reference number and is unchangeable for you. The transport can begin.
• All parties involved (e.g. drivers, winery, commission agents) can now call up the electronic wine accompanying document online or receive it digitally.

Submit the accompanying document by post or fax:

• Fill out the 3-fold form legibly and completely.
• You give the original to the driver. You keep the remaining two copies.
• The driver hands the original to the recipient of the wine transport (e.g. the winery) at the destination.
• You send one carbon copy by post or fax to the competent inspection authority at the place of loading no later than one day after the start of transportation.
• The remaining copy is for your records.

You only need to create and send the accompanying document. The authorities will not process or issue a notification.

• Accompanying documents for the transportation of wine products Receipt
• Transports of bulk wine products of more than 60 liters must be carried out with an accompanying document
• Wine products are: Grapes, mash, grape must, wine, sparkling wine, semi-sparkling wine, fortified wine, liqueur wine
• Accompanying documents can be issued in paper form or electronically
  • The 3-fold accompanying document carbon copy is available from the competent authority
  • The electronic wine accompanying document procedure makes this possible in digital form (eWeinBV)
    • This eliminates the need for paper copies of the accompanying document
• Required documents: Form from the competent authority
• Under certain conditions, the obligation to issue an accompanying document does not apply

Responsible: Wine control authorities of the federal states