Definition: Holding

Category: Community vineyard register

"Holding" shall mean a single unit, both technically and economically, which has a single management and 

- which has a wine-growing area of at least 10 ares, 

or 

- which is subject to a declaration required under Community or national wine legislation if the unit concerned has a wine-growing area of less than 10 ares, 

or 

- which produces from its wine-growing area quantities exceeding certain physical or economic thresholds set by the Member State concerned if the unit concerned has a wine-growing area of less than 10 ares and is not subject to a declaration as referred to in the second indent. http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:31987R0649:EN:HTML