ROMANA ENGLEZA

INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPEMENT AND CAPACITY EXPENDING OF THE ENOLOGY LABORATORY FOR PHYSICO-CHEMICAL ANALYSES AND TESTS OF MUST, WINE AND OTHER ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES

· OBJECTIVES · PROJECT PURPOSE · RESULTS AND BENEFITS · PROJECT'S IMPACT · CONTACT	PROGRAMUL CERCETARE DE EXCELENTA Excellence research program Module IV: INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPEMENT FOR CONFORMITY EVALUATION AND CERTIFICATION Proposal Acronym : DIELOVIN Contract No.: 269/2006 Contracting authority: RENAR Contractor: Universitatea de Ştiinţe Agricole şi Medicină Veterinară Iaşi – Laboratorul de OENOLOGIE Contract length: 2006-2007
	OBJECTIVES The main objective of this project is developing the infrastructure and extending the competences of the Oenology Laboratory to trials and physico-chemical analyses for must, wine and other alcoholic beverages. Therefore, new methods are being brought in, in accordance with the international ones, for determing the quality of the wine, its origins and its authenticity. One of the main conditions required by the European Committee aquis is to correctly apply the community requisitions referring to the European Common Market, defined as a no borders area, where there is a free passing of products, persons, services and capital. The Common Market is built upon free market economy, where competition and economic cohesion play an essential role. Romania's entering in the EU Common Market requires developing a network of laboratories that can certify Romanian wines' quality for export. The project wants to extend the authority of the oenology laboratory so that, in the end, the authorized methods could strengthen the evaluating and certification objectives of the Romanian wines in accordance to the European standards. In the end, the project will lead to the authorization of four new analysis methods, according to the EU standards. Until now, in Romania, there has been no laboratory for certifying the obtained wines. Therefore, the Oenology Laboratory must be able to certify, through the above mentioned analysis methods, the quality of the wine but also its authentic and tipicity. The project will have to find the specific trial procedures. In the end, the project will authorize the above mentioned methods. The project's purpose is to develop the evaluation activities from the concordance and standardization according to the principles and international practices meant to eliminate the technical borders of commerce, especially those within the European Union and therefore to promote free circulation and international recognition of the products. back
	PROJECT PURPOSE The actual technical support and the qualified personnel of the Oenology Laboratory allow performing physico-chemical analyses of wine and other drinks, necessary to the research from the thematic plan. Due to the modern equipment (gas chromatography, UV-VIS spectrometry, HPLC, Atomic Absorption Spectrometry), the research can be internationally recognized. The new technology allows us to perform physico-chemical analyses in accordance with the OIV standard methods or rapidly agreed upon and validated methods by international forums: analysis methods in accordance with the order 85/591/CEE and recommended methods by the International Standardization Organization (ISO). Adding to the technical support can extend the area of the lab analyses that can be performed in accordance with international standards. In this way, the Oenology laboratory will be able to perform, beside the whole pack of usual analyses, a series of high complexity analyses that could lead to a diversification and specialization of research. back
	RESULTS AND BENEFITS The results that will be obtained will be classified according to the nature of the participating unit and according to its objectives. The laboratory will be authorized within a learning unit that, according to the stipulations of order OG nr.57/2002 has judicial personality and is part of the national research network. Intellectual proprietorship of the research's results belongs only to the one participant in the project. back
	PROJECT'S IMPACT This project has, firstly, a social impact as it aims at an institutional restructuring, compatible to that in the EU. Any delays in reaching this main objective result in more delays in Romania's adhesion and moreover, delays in the global developing of our state. The objectives of this project lead towards a development of the national system for evaluation and conformity validation, as well as towards forming and improving human resources of the conformity validation infrastructure. The economic results are thought to lead to a major qualitative growing of the wine making and alcoholic beverages process. Moreover, the conformity validation process has a strong scientifically character, based on physico-chemical indicators and will therefore, guarantee its objectivity and certainty. The project will support and promote the development of the viticultural and wine making production and its qualitative rising to the EU standards. It is worth mentioning that this project offers opportunities for the University learning as well, as the research team members are among the teaching staff, with research based experience. The inclusion of the students in this project is a promoting factor of the objectives and activities of the project. back
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