Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the existing Vineyard Register is maintained in accordance with EU regulations.

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) currently maintains a Vineyard Register for the United Kingdom on behalf of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. This was established and managed in accordance with the European Union requirements set out in Regulation (EC) 436/2009. This statutory obligation was removed on the 1 January 2016 as a result of Regulation (EC) 1308/2013.

The FSA uses the register for the purposes of official controls relating to UK wine production and to underpin traceability for the various UK wine schemes.