S.L. 436.7 ст. 7Controls.

(1) All wine producers participating in the D.O.K. quality scheme shall:

(a) be subject to an audit on the necessary documentation and stock-taking activities of the winery or its affiliates at any moment during the year;

(b) have an electronic weighing device on which all the grape and must products entering or exiting the winery shall be caused to be weighed and recorded into a suitable electronic system in accordance with heading 10 of the Act;

(c) abide by any prescription made by the Unit for the safeguarding of the certification process, including the introduction of a siutable on-line database system managed by the Unit in order to record all the flow of vitivinicultural products into and out of the winery and of identification seals.

(2) Wine producers who fail the controls under these regulations shall be barred from participating in the scheme for a number of years deemed appropriate by the Unit and which shall not be less than two consecutive years. Such wine producers shall not be eligible to any refund of the participating fee. On the first year of being readmitted to the scheme the wine producer shall stipulate a bank guarantee covering one year in favour of the Director on an amount to be stipulated by the Unit and which shall not be less than five thousand euro (5000). If during the year covered by the guarantee the wine producer fails the controls the guarantee shall be withdrawn by the Unit.

(3) Officers authorised by the Unit shall be granted access to take samples of the grapes entering the winery establishment to determine the quality of the grapes being delivered to the winery. Such samples shall be taken free of charge.

(4) Officers authorised by the Unit may, at any time, carry out administrative and technical controls, even without notice, on the vineyards registered under the list of vineyards to ascertain to its satisfaction that the vineyards conform to the production protocol under which they are registered. Grape producers who market their produce as grapes suitable for the production of D.O.K. wines when such grapes do not possess the necessary requisites, shall be guilty of an offence under the Act.

(5) In order to respect the traceability of production grape producers shall deliver the whole produce of a vineyard parcel registered in respect of regulations 14 and 15 of the Denomination Regulations and which is uniform with respect to variety and typology, to one wine producing entity only.

(6) Grape growers who fail the controls under these regulations shall be barred from participating to the scheme for a number of years deemed appropriate by the Unit and which shall not be less than two consecutive years.