French term for "small banner") for an official closure mark in the form of a seal or seal. Bottles of alcoholic beverages are also labelled with a band. They are used in different ways in different countries in the form of a strip of paper attached to the neck of the bottle and passed over the closure. They were introduced in Austria in 1985 as a result of the wine scandal (adulteration with diethylene glycol). The paper strip was destroyed when a bottle was opened to prevent misuse such as re-filling with an inferior wine.

They were used for quantity control as they were labelled with the nominal volume, the bottler 's company number and a consecutive number and were mandatory for quality wines and Prädikat wines.
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