Department of Viticulture and Oenology

Department of Viticulture and Oenology, according to the National Council of the Slovak Republic and the EU law, exercises these statutory powers:

• keeps vineyard register; recording the vineyards to the register and assigns registry numbers to them,
• authorises vine plantings according to the Article 66 of the Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013,
• administrates national reserve of planting rights,
• acts on unauthorized plantings,
• classifies areas in Tokaj’s region for Tokaj wine production,
• certifies grapes for producing PDO and PGI wines,
• keeps register of grape harvest, wine production, and wine stocks,
• certifies PDO and PGI wines before entering the market,
• issues export and import certificates,
• takes the samples of the wine grapes that are representative for the Slovak Republic, processes them into wine, provides physical/chemical analysis and sends the data to the European Analytical Database of isotopic data according to European Regulation No 555/2008,
• administrates, coordinates and updates Slovak database of isotopic wine data,
• sends statistical data to Agricultural and Food Centre Branch: Research Institute of Agriculture and Food,
• sends statistical data to the Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic.