Wine lobbying at the European Parliament: the Wine Intergroup in the mobilization against the planting rights’ liberalization.

This study aims at deepening the knowledge on the multi-level imbricated logics which led to the exceptional collective mobilization of national and European actors against the 2008 reform of the CMO-wine, which plans the planting rights’ liberalization. Since the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty, the role of the European Parliament has been strengthened in the EU institutional balance – which upholds the role of its Wine Intergroup in the EU decision-making on wine issues. This Wine Intergroup is examined under various perspectives, outlining its unique composition, history and legitimacy, in order to consider whether it is a wine organized lobby within the European Parliament on this case study. It is a key forum to define and legitimize common positions on wine-related matters through a priviledged coalition of "wine MEPs" and wine organizations. This is why it is targeted by various interests, standing as a pivotal point, around which the EU stakeholders of the wine sector oscillate.This study aims at deepening the knowledge on the multi-level imbricated logics which led to the exceptional collective mobilization of national and European actors against the 2008 reform of the CMO-wine, which plans the planting rights’ liberalization. Since the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty, the role of the European Parliament has been strengthened in the EU institutional balance – which upholds the role of its Wine Intergroup in the EU decision-making on wine issues. This Wine Intergroup is examined under various perspectives, outlining its unique composition, history and legitimacy, in order to consider whether it is a wine organized lobby within the European Parliament on this case study. It is a key forum to define and legitimize common positions on wine-related matters through a priviledged coalition of "wine MEPs" and wine organizations. This is why it is targeted by various interests, standing as a pivotal point, around which the EU stakeholders of the wine sector oscillate