INVEKOS

The Integrated Administration and Control System is a system introduced by the European Union to enforce a uniform Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in the EU Member States. This system has been successfully used to process EU agricultural compensation payments since 1992. By means of digitisation (graphic area determination) and multiple applications (MFA), areas are surveyed and applied for according to the cultivation carried out in nature. In 2013, the EU decided that in the future all vineyards must be digitally recorded according to the same principle and that the vineyard register must be converted to an INVEKOS basis. The Länder were set deadlines for the conversion. The recorded areas correspond to the vineyards standing in nature and can be used for all prescribed declarations and information. In contrast to the previous vineyard register, which was based on plots of land, the INVEKOS register now contains exactly the area planted with vines in the vineyards. These are also the basis for the EU wine market regulation (for example, conversion subsidies). Only if the vineyard cadastre meets the EU criteria is financial support for winegrowers possible. On the basis of INVEKOS, the quantities for the planted grape varieties are also recorded in hectares. These are, for example, in Germany by D-STATIS, in Austria Statistics Austria and internationally by OIV (Organisation Internationale de la Vigne et du Vin).