Issue accompanying documents for wine shipments

If you are transporting more than 60 liters of a non-bottled wine product, you need a wine accompanying document for each transport.

You require a wine accompanying document for the transportation of wine products that have not been bottled.

Wine products are

• Grapes,
• grape must,
• mash,
• wine,
• sparkling wine,
• sparkling wine,
• liqueur wine and
• fortified wine.

The accompanying document entitles you to transport the wine products from the producer to the further processing or recovery point, for example to a winery. You are obliged to use an accompanying document.

Hessian State Laboratory (wine control)

Information on the wine products to be transported (usually available from your own wine accounts)

Forms available: No

Written form required: No

Informal application possible: Yes (analog application procedure)

Personal appearance necessary: No

Online services available: Yes, from 2023

For online application procedures (from 2023):

• A company account based on Elster ("My company account")
• Applicants must be entered internally in a market participant list with their address and a company number. This was done automatically as of 09-2022.

For businesses that were not registered with the wine control authority in September 2022: Please contact the responsible wine control authority in this regard.

No

Analog application procedure:

To order wine accompanying documents, please contact the Hessian State Laboratory (Wine Control).

Digital application procedure:

The digital application procedure will be made available in the course of 2023 and will guide you through the process of applying for wine accompanying documents

Wine accompanying documents must be drawn up immediately before the start of transportation. There is no deadline.

Once the digital wine accompanying document has been signed, it is immediately valid. There is no processing time.

Fee 6,00 EUR