Later the problem has become
structural rather than due to a moment of emergency and the crisis
distillation has also started to cover ‘quality wines’ (Commission of
the European Communities, 2006). The European Regulation (EC)
n.479/2008 on the common organisation of the wine market has
sanctioned the end for these incentives with effect from August
2012. In 2006, among others reforms, the EU Commission proposed
the “green harvesting” a program aimed at eliminate surpluses
through ex-ante measures rather than ex-post measures (in-
centives for distillation) (Meloni and Swinnen, 2012). As Belisario-
S_nchez et al. (2012) highlighted, the simple use of wine to producea