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Text and Wine: Approaches from terminology and translation
Edited by M. del Carmen Balbuena Torezano and Manuela Álvarez Jurado
[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature 38] 2023
► pp. 78–89

Legal labelling regime and its relevance on the translation of wine labels (EN-ES-FR)

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Every translation requires a prior process that facilitates the translation work and contributes to its correct execution at all levels. Label translation requires a very particular and characteristic process in which regulations play a very important role. In particular, wine labels have gained more visibility due to consumer demands and market conditions. Closely tied with this is the remarkable growth the wine sector experienced in the recent years, in particular within the EU wine market. There has been a large interest in the vitiviniculture industry, and the marketing of such products has therefore increased. This in turn makes it necessary to draw up which are the regulatory obligations we have to comply with when exporting a wine product which is totally linked to labelling and its translation process.

Keywords: labelling, wine labels, wine and viticulture sector, legal labelling regime, labelling translation
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction: Labelling overview
  • 2.Legal framework for wine labels
  • 3.Legal texts as a terminology tool for wine translators
  • 4.Conclusions
  • References
Published online: 23 November 2023
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https://doi.org/10.1075/ivitra.38.06pon
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Legal texts

Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2011 on the provision of food information to consumers, amending Regulations (EC) No 1924/2006 and (EC) No 1925/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council, and repealing Commission Directive 87/250/EEC, Council Directive 90/496/EEC, Commission Directive 1999/10/EC, Directive 2000/13/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, Commission Directives 2002/67/EC and 2008/5/EC and Commission Regulation (EC) No 608/2004 Text with EEA relevance
Official Journal of the European Union, [URL]
Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 establishing a common organisation of the markets in agricultural products and repealing Council Regulations (EEC) No 922/72, (EEC) No 234/79, (EC) No 1037/2001 and (EC) No 1234/2007
Official Journal of the European Union, [URL]
Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/33 of 17 October 2018 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards applications for protection of designations of origin, geographical indications and traditional terms in the wine sector, the objection procedure, restrictions of use, amendments to product specifications, cancellation of protection, and labelling and presentation
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Regulation No 1 determining the languages to be used by the European Economic Community
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