BOTTEGA (PROSECCO), 'NEW EU LABELING COSTS US 500 THOUSAND EUROS IN DAMAGES'

«Unprecedented situation in the world of alcoholic beverage labeling with incredible damage that arises from the incompetence of bureaucrats, completely detached from reality: a company works with label printing programs with at least 3/6 months with exhaustion times that as at least they are of that size: modifying the legislation a few days before means forcing companies to destroy huge quantities which for our company alone are worth at least €500,000, an unacceptable damage which will oblige us to ask for legal intervention in order to be able to compensated for this damage." Sandro Bottega, owner of Bottega SpA , the Venetian wine company from Bibano (Treviso) which exports prosecco to 150 countries around the world, thus intervenes regarding the brand new EU guidelines on the labeling of bottles of sparkling and sparkling wines which involve the inclusion of data relating to ingredients on labels which risk forcing many manufacturing companies to have to destroy millions of already printed labels. «But not only that - continues Bottega - there is a lack of technical time to be able to comply with the law in a timely manner, especially when it comes to elaborate labels like ours. Unfortunately, those behind office desks and often even politicians are people who don't have the faintest idea of what not only a company, its planning, production difficulties, but also the regulations in force of other regulatory authorities mean. controls that require "work declarations" which cannot then not be respected because there are no labels; in the same way they do not know the difficulties of customers who must receive the goods in time for Christmas, with enormous damages due to any lost sales. In short - concludes Sandro Bottega - I am left speechless, I am a convinced pro-European: this is a 360° shame that has no excuses, cannot be forgiven and highlights the limits of those who, instead of trying to understand the productive reality, imagine it from behind a desk".