Trying to build a future according to the one of EU and aspiring after becoming an apreciate member of the International Wine Community, as a producer of some valuable wines, Romania has intensified the efforts to reach these issues, to create a common language at the international level, european and even national, starting with the actions that followed to the Law of Wine and Vineyard no.224/2002. It was imperatively imposed a strict reevaluation of the production wine and vine potential, for example the delimitation and a group of the viticultural areas. With the studies made by the authorized institutions of the government there were identified and aproved eight viticultural regions.the limitation of the viticultural area, teritorial group of viticultural area, european viticultural area, viticultural region, recommended sorts, authorized sorts, wine with name of controlled origin.

Ionica Soare

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COMMON LANGUAGE CREATED BY LEGISLATION REGARDING THE 
TERITORIAL LIMIT OF THE PRODUCTION VINE WINE POTENTIAL OF ROMANIA
Ionica SOARE 
Dunărea de Jos University Galati
Ionica.Soare@ugal.ro
Trying to build a future according to the one of EU and aspiring after becoming an apreciate 
member of the International Wine Community, as a producer of some valuable wines, Romania has 
intensified the efforts to reach these issues, to create a common language at the international level, 
european and even national, starting with the actions that followed to the Law of Wine and Vineyard 
no.224/2002. It was imperatively imposed a strict reevaluation of the production wine and vine 
potential, for example the delimitation and a group of the viticultural areas. With the studies made by 
the authorized institutions of the government there were identified and aproved eight viticultural 
regions.
Keywords: the limitation of the viticultural area, teritorial group of viticultural area, european 
viticultural area, viticultural region, recommended sorts, authorized sorts, wine with name of 
controlled origin.
Introduction
Romania has a production viticultural potential of 
notoriousness on the european plan, being as a proof 
the privileged positions that are occupied in the 
economic   statistics.   Grape-vine   is   cultivated, 
especially   into   the   traditional   accepted   areas, 
situated especially on the hill area, on sands as well 
as on fields with favourable conditions. We may talk 
about an architecture of the landscape of the grape-
wine cultures rised from the co-operation of the 
natural factors and from the desire, the zeal, and 
generosity of the people, engineers or economists or 
simple workers peasants, who took over the art of 
plantation,   working,   and   taking   care   of   the 
precursors.   The   favourability   of   producing   the 
quality wines, on the base of a large grape-vine 
sorts,is   proved   by   the   scientific   data,   by   the 
requirements   of   the   romanian   wines   on   the 
international market and by the praiseworthy results 
obtained at the international conquests.
The necesity of delimitation of the wine and vine 
production of Romania
The way of joining Romania at the European Union 
has supposed many reglementation in the wine and 
vine field according to the common organization 
system of the wine and vine culture. The core of 
reglementations, we think, was the delimitation of 
the areas destined to the producing the wines and 
other wine and vine products with controlled origin, 
the settling down the characteristics that must be 
fulfilled and other aspects .
In   EU   there   were   elaborated   precised 
reglementations   regarding   the   recognition   and 
respecting the origin names. Let’s not forget that the 
wine is a simple agricultural product, it is a valuable 
product, a way of transport of the culture and way of 
life of the country, a reason for which the problem of 
producing the wines with name of origin is old. In 
the international legislation, the problem of name of 
origin was for the first time stated at the Convention 
in Paris (1883), to which Romania has joined, being 
after that noticed, in ways more and more accepted, 
by many reglementations, gaining outline through 
the   Arrangement   from   Lisabona   from   1959[3]. 
Then, it has given a great attention, constituting the 
subject of many international meetings and not only 
this. In our country, there have been made precise 
reglementations regarding the giving of name of 
origin,   through   the   Law   of   Wine   and   Vine 
no.21/1971, modified by the Law of Wine and Vine 
no.67/1997, and actualized by the Law of Wine and 
Vine into the system of common organization of the 
wine and vine culture market no.224/2205 and The 
Order of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural 
Development   no.732/02.08.2005,   replacing   the 
name wine with name of origin with wine with name 
of controlled origin.
The need of recognition of the wines with the name 
was probably felt for a long time by the producers of 
wine on the wine and vine market, the new condition 
that the country will get will impose the elimination 
of many expresions or incorrect indications that 
harms the interests of some producers from other 
countries   which   are   not   according   to   the 
international reglementations to which our country is 
signatory[4].
The territorial delimitation of the culture areas
Being given other agricultural culture, the grape-
wine   which   is   cultivated,   especially,   into   the 
traditionaly established, situated into the hill area, on 
sands, and also on other fields with favourable 
conditions, have now a teritorial delimitation of 
viticultural areas, including the one destined to the 
producing the wines with name of controlled origin 
from sorts of reccomended and fertile vine. The final 
dispositions of the Law of Wine and Vine into the 
common   organization   system   of   the   viticultural 
market no.224/2002 stipulated that the conditions of 
teritorial delimitation of the viticultural areas and 
other measures that refered to the wine and vine 
field to be established by methodological norms 
elaborated   by   the   Ministry   of   Agriculture, 
Alimentation and Forest, with the notice of the 
Ministry of Public Finance, the Ministry Of Health 
and   Family   and   the   Ministry   of   European 
Integration.
This paper was recommended for publication by Prof. Vasile CUCU, PhD. 129THE ANNALS OF "DUN    Ã    REA DE JOS" UNIVERSITY OF GALAŢI           
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This paper was recommended for publication by Prof. Vasile CUCU, PhD. 131The   Government   Decision   no.1134/2002   for 
aproving “The Methodological norms to apply 
the Law of Wine and Vine into the system of 
common organization of the viticultural market 
no.224/2002 “has established that until ending 
the delimitation of the viticultural areas, the 
Ministry of Agriculture, Alimentation and Forest 
to coordinate the bringing up to date the works 
of naming the viticultural areas on vineyard and 
viticultural centers and to establish the teritories 
which are part of their composition, up to a level 
of locality.The organization and working the 
Ministry   of   Agriculture,   Forest   and   Rural 
Development,   according   to   the   Government 
Decision no. 409/2004, took over afterwards 
these tasks. With the Order no.594/17.08.2004 
for the approval “the zoning of the sorts of 
fertile vineyard recommended and authorized for 
culture into the viticultural areas from Romania” 
emited by the ministry of agriculture, forest and 
rural development (which repeals the Order of 
the Ministry of Agriculture, Alimentation and 
Forest no.546/2002 regarding the approval of the 
zoning of the sorts of fertile vineyard from the 
basic   sort   of   Romania,   recommended   and 
authorized   for   culture   into   the   viticultural 
areas”)   are   established   the   names   of   the 
viticultural areas and their group – vineyard, 
viticultural centers and viticultural regions – at 
the level of each viticultural region for the eight 
regions from the geographical culture area of the 
vine from Romania (see the map, enclosed with 
the definitions of the great viticultural area of 
Romania and of the groups of sorts). The criteria 
regarding the delimitation of the areas are stood 
out in the definitions of the clasification units of 
the great geographical area of the vine culture. 
The grouping of the viticultural areas resulted at 
the level of the large teritorial units, and also 
their names, are different more or less of the 
ones found in many scientific works[1],[2],[3].
Also, the viticultural areas delimited for the 
producing   the   wines   with   name   of   origin, 
contain the fields situated on a vineyard or on a 
viticultural center which, because of the natural 
conditions, the sorts of cultivated vine and the 
applied culture technologies, permit to obtain 
some products of high quality, characterized by 
the originality of the quality features which 
recommend to have the name of the place where 
they were produced .So, the wine has the name 
of the delimited producing area, usually of the 
viticultural center, and also of the sort. The 
names of controlled origin for the calm wines or 
foamy admited to be used in Romania, stood out 
on the enclosed map (enclosed by the definition 
of the terms reffering to the wines DOC), after 
the Ministry of Agriculture, Forest and Rural 
Development no.732/02.08.2005, reflects lots of 
the areas at each level of viticultural region from 
Romania, excepting “the Viticultural Region of 
the sands and other favourable fields from the 
south of the country“,  implicit their various 
structure which gives to the romanian industry 
the chance (mostly not used as the specialists 
announce) of wines DOC, determined by the 
producing area. The specialists apreciates that 
Romania can produce up to 402 different sorts 
of wines, from which 11 for current consume, 42 
categories of quality wines with geographical 
indication / superior wines (VS) and 349 with 
names of controlled origin, after the Country of 
Wines[5].   The   Inspection   of   State   for   the 
Technical Viticultural Control (I.S.C.T.V.) and 
the National Office of the Names of Origin for 
the Wines and other Vine and Wine culture 
(O.N.D.O.V.) and the National Office of the 
Wine   and   Vine   coordinates   and   guides   the 
achievement of the vine and wine production. 
Between   the   governamental   institutions 
mentioned and the Asociation of the Authorized 
of those who Taste from Romania (ADAR), 
there is a permanent and closed cooperation, the 
last being founded in 1994, as result of the 
necesity of a group of specialists with national 
and international recognition[6].
Conclusions
It is true that the new reglementations and the 
studies made by the authorized institutions of the 
state has shown once againg the value of the 
viticultural potential of Romania, a reason for 
which the viticultural regions recent delimited 
are framed into the three viticultural areas of the 
European Union, as it results from the Order 
no.645/16.07.2005   of   the   Ministry   of 
Agriculture,   Forest   and   Rural   Development 
regarding the aproval of framing the viticultural 
romanian regions into viticultural areas of the 
European   Regions   and   the   conditions   of 
applying   the   corections   the   alchoolic 
concentration   and   acidity   over   the   crops   of 
grapes   situated   in   different   phases   of 
development.   The   framing   of   the   romanian 
viticultural regions into viticultural areas b (with 
alchoolic concentration of minimum 6.0%vol.), 
Cla (with alchoolic concentration of minimum 
7.5%   vol.)   and   CII   (   with   alchoolic 
concentration of minimum 8.5% vol.) of the 
European Union was made on the base of “The 
study   ecopedology   and   ecoclimatic   for   the 
framing of the viticultural areas from Romania 
into   the   viticultural   areas   of   the   European 
Studies, elaborated by the Institute of Research-
Development for Viticultural and Vinification 
Valea Calugareasca. It was created, this way, a 
common   language   at   an   international   level, 
european and national. The delimitation of the 
viticultural areas and their grouping into the 
romanian space remains the same for the time 
being,   irrespective   of   the   tryings   into   their 
delimitation.
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