Article 5

Regulation (EU) 2019/787 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 April 2019 on the definition, description, presentation and labelling of spirit drinks, the use of the names of spirit drinks in the presentation and labelling of other foodstuffs, the protection of geographical indications for spirit drinks, the use of ethyl alcohol and distillates of agricultural origin in alcoholic beverages, and repealing Regulation (EC) No 110/2008 · European Union

For the purposes of this Regulation, ethyl alcohol of agricultural origin is a liquid which complies with the following requirements: it has been obtained exclusively from products listed in Annex I to the Treaty; it has no detectable taste other than that of the raw materials used in its production; its minimum alcoholic strength by volume is 96,0 %; its maximum levels of residues do not exceed the following: total acidity (expressed in acetic acid): 1,5 grams per hectolitre of 100 % vol. alcohol; esters (expressed in ethyl acetate): 1,3 grams per hectolitre of 100 % vol. alcohol; aldehydes (expressed in acetaldehyde): 0,5 grams per hectolitre of 100 % vol. alcohol; higher alcohols (expressed in 2-methyl-1-propanol): 0,5 grams per hectolitre of 100 % vol. alcohol; methanol: 30 grams per hectolitre of 100 % vol. alcohol; dry extract: 1,5 grams per hectolitre of 100 % vol. alcohol; volatile bases containing nitrogen (expressed in nitrogen): 0,1 grams per hectolitre of 100 % vol. alcohol; furfural: not detectable.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-08 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.