2009_note_conj_mars_EN_compilee.pdf

STATE OF VITIVINICULTURE WORLD REPORT MARCH 2009 NB: The OIV 2006 statistics shall be published shortly. The 2006 data from this report shall be used in the coming publication except for a few exceptions. 2007 data must nevertheless be considered provisional. 1. Estimation of 2008 potential wine production 1.1 Within the EU-27 (table 1) The estimation of community vineyards is waiting for the results of the first year of the implementation of the new community regulations. This new common market organisation provides that starting from the 2008/2009 season and lasting until the 2010/11 season, vine growers shall be eligible to receive definitive grubbing premiums, based on those individuals seeking subsidies within a budgetary framework involving grubbing 175 mha over 3 years of which 70 mha during the first season. This procedure is set up subsequently to the 2008 harvest, during the 2008/09 season. 2009 vineyards, on an overall community level, shall reflect the consequences of this regulatory modification. The expectations of this procedure, in addition to stopping the decreasing trend have led the vast majority share of community vineyards to pursue a slowing decline in vineyards. Two exceptions to this trend can be noted: - Firstly France which since the past 2 seasons has widely allowed grubbing on its territory has been affected, since the 2004 production, by the largest decrease in rates and the maintaining of low rate levels during the 2007/2008 season (despite a modest 2007 production). This phenomena has led to grubbing being pursued: a decrease of nearly 15 mha between 2007 and 2008, - As such, 12 new members of the EU, the largest of them, are committed to the move to restructure their respective vineyards while they have experienced a decrease in vineyards which are the most inadequate to competition and for which investment capacity is reduced. These combined factors hav