Authorisations for new installations
Applications for permits for new plants must be submitted to the Ministry from 15 February to 31 March each year electronically in the SIAN. Agricultural Assistance Centres may also be contacted for this activity. Applications are considered admissible if the applicant's company file shows an agricultural area, with the exception of that already under vine and that subject to constraints on the planting of vines, equal to or greater than that for which authorisation is requested. On the basis of the list transmitted by the Ministry, the Province issues authorisations by 1 August each year.
Should it be necessary to change the location of the area for which authorisation has been granted, the appropriate form(model 6) is available and must be sent to the competent provincial structure.
The tenant must notify completion of the planting operations within thirty days of planting the vines by submitting the appropriate form(model 8).
Any grower who does not use the authorisation granted within its period of validity (three years from the date of issue) will be subject to a penalty.
Authorisations for replanting from grubbing-up
A producer who intends to replant a vineyard (on the same or a different area than the grubbing-up area) must submit a prior notice of grubbing-up(Form 2) at least 30 days before the operation.
By the end of the second wine year following the one in which the grubbing-up took place, the tenant may submit an application for authorisation to replant by sending the appropriate form(form 4) to the competent provincial structure. Applications must be submitted, also identifying graphically the areas to be grubbed up. If the application for authorisation is not made by the end of the same wine year (31 July) in which the grubbing-up took place, a notification of the grubbing-up(form 7) must be sent, so that the vineyard register can be updated.
The authorisation, for an area equivalent to that grubbed up, is issued within 90 days of the application being submitted and is valid for three years from the date of issue.
The tenant must notify completion of the planting operations within 30 days of planting the vines by submitting the appropriate form(model 8).
If the location and surface area of the replanted vineyard correspond to that of the grubbed-up vineyard, and the replanting takes place within the same wine-growing year as that of the grubbing-up, the producer may make use of a simplified procedure: in this case the producer, after having submitted prior notification of the grubbing-up by means of model 2, may directly notify the planting by means of model 3 without having previously submitted model 4, since the authorisation is to be considered automatically granted on the date on which the surface area was grubbed up.
Authorisations for early replanting
Producers may apply for early replanting by undertaking to grub up an area of vines equivalent to that planted by the end of the fourth year from the date on which the new vines were planted. The application to be submitted to the competent provincial structure(form 5) must indicate the size and position of the vineyard to be replanted and the vineyard to be grubbed up. The application must also be accompanied by a bank or insurance guarantee policy taken out in favour of the Autonomous Province of Trento for an amount of Euro 7,000 per hectare, with a duration of no less than eight years from the date of authorisation.
The authorisation is issued within 90 days from the presentation of the application and is valid for three years from the date of issue.
The tenant must notify completion of the planting operations within thirty days of planting the vines by submitting the appropriate form(model 8).
By the end of the fourth year from the date on which the new vines have been planted, the tenant must notify the grubbing-up of the area planted with vines equivalent to the replanted area(form 7), at the same time requesting the release of the security deposit, which will take place following a systematic check of the areas subject to grubbing-up by the competent provincial structure.
A tenant who does not carry out the grubbing-up before the end of the fourth year from the date on which the advance replanting was carried out will be subject to a penalty.
Communication of overgrafting
The grower who carries out the operation of varietal change by grafting an area of vines must communicate to the competent provincial structure the area grafted, identifying it also graphically, and the vine variety used. This communication is made by submitting form 9, within 30 days from the end of the grafting operation.
Communication for updating the register
Should it be necessary to change the data and characteristics of the vine units in the vineyard register (planting layout, including thickening, form of training, variety), the tenant must notify the competent provincial structure by submitting form 7.
Experimental planting
Producers, wine protection consortia, nurserymen, public bodies, universities and scientific institutions operating in the field of wine-growing, who intend to carry out research or experimental projects, must send the competent provincial structure, at least 60 days before the start of operations, advance notice of experimental planting(form 10).
Within 30 days of the planting being carried out, subjects must notify the planting (without authorisation) by submitting model 12.
The technical manager of the research or experimentation project must send the competent provincial structure, by 31 December of each year starting from the third year of the implant, a report on the progress of the planned initiative and the results achieved.
It is forbidden to market the products obtained from the plants subject to experimentation or research. It is permitted to produce and hold limited quantities of wine, to the extent necessary for an exhaustive evaluation of the trials envisaged by the project, which may not in any case be marketed. Until grubbing-up, products obtained from grapes may only be put into circulation if they are intended for distillation, from which a product with an alcoholic strength of 80% vol. or less may not be obtained.
It is compulsory to grub up at one's own expense the areas planted by 31 July following the end of the authorised project, notifying the competent provincial structure by sending form 7. Any area not grubbed up by the deadline is considered an unauthorised vineyard subject to a penalty. As an exception to these provisions, the producer may apply for planting authorisation in accordance with the 'Authorisations for new plantings' procedure, provided that the vines used in the research or experimentation are among those authorised in the Province.
Any extension of the experimental period must be communicated to the competent provincial structure.
The uprooting of the area used for the experimental planting does not give rise to authorisation for replanting.
Implantation of scion mother plants
In the case of planting for the cultivation of scion mother plants, no authorisation is required, but a prior communication(form 11) must be submitted at least 60 days before the start of operations.
Within 30 days of planting, subjects must communicate that planting has taken place (without authorisation) by submitting model 12.
The grapes produced by these plants must be destroyed or not harvested, with the exception of a quantity, not exceeding 300 kg for each clone or biotype, necessary to allow microvinifications and any ampelographic and health checks. Wine obtained from microvinifications may only be marketed if intended for distillation, from which a product with an alcoholic strength by volume of 80% vol. or less may not be obtained. Other products obtained from grapes from vineyards intended for graft nurseries may not be marketed.
Any extension of the experimental period must be communicated to the competent provincial structure.
In the case of the cessation of graft nursery production, the nurseryman shall grub up the vineyard area at his own expense, notifying the competent provincial structure by sending form 7. The grubbing-up does not give rise to a replanting authorisation.
By way of derogation from these provisions, the producer, at least five years after the date of planting, may apply for authorisation in accordance with the 'Authorisations for new plantings' procedure so that grapes from vines intended for the production of graft nurseries and the wine products obtained from such grapes may be marketed, provided that the vines used are among those authorised in the Province.
Planting as a consequence of expropriation
A tenant who has lost a specific area planted with vines as a result of an expropriation measure for reasons of public utility is entitled to plant a new area planted with vines as long as this does not exceed 105% of the area lost.
The tenant must communicate the grubbing-up to the competent provincial structure, by sending form 7, indicating the details of the expropriation measure.
Within 30 days of planting, subjects must communicate the fact of planting (without authorisation) by submitting form 12.
