Through a Circular issued by the Ministry of Health and Social Protection, importers of wines, aromatized wines, sparkling wines and champagnes from the European Union were informed of new guidelines related to the labeling of these products in the country.

The Circular is in response to European Union Regulation 2021/2117, in force since December 8, 2023, which establishes the obligation to include the list of ingredients and nutritional values on the back label of wine products. However, the health regulations in force in Colombia, regulated by Decree 1686 of 2012, “which establishes the technical regulations on the health requirements to be met for the manufacture, processing, hydration, packaging, storage, distribution, transport, marketing, sale, sale, export and import of alcoholic beverages intended for human consumption” does not include these provisions for alcoholic beverages.

The Ministry emphasized that, in Colombia, nutritional labeling is defined exclusively for food intended for human consumption, as stipulated in Resolutions 810 of 2021 and 2492 of 2022, and does not apply to alcoholic beverages. Therefore, products that include nutritional information on their source labels must make the necessary conditioning to cover such data before marketing.