DEVELOPMENT OF THE COMITE CHAMPAGNE 

The CIVC has not been established overnight but through constant efforts to harmonise dealings between the vine growers and the négociants (merchants), overcoming difficult situations and common problems in order to create and strengthen ties between the two groups

• Before 1900 Associations were set up to protect the name of Champagne and to fight against its unauthorised use in France and overseas. In Champagne itself, collective measures were used to combat the disease phylloxera, to avert disaster and replant the vineyards.
  
   

• 1907/1911 : First demarcation of the Champagne vineyard.
   
• 1919 : Grape prices agreed according to growing area. First talks made with a view to fixing grape yields.
   
• 1919-1927 : Second demarcation, Champagne statute agreed.
   
• 1930 : Quotas, customs barriers and the economic crisis throw the Champagne markets into disarray. Setting up of a Champagne Wine Publicity and Defence Committee, under the presidency of the Prefect of Marne, made up of representatives of the vineyards and of business.
  
   
• 1935 : Vineyard owners and business leaders set up the Châlons Committee, made up of an equal number of representatives from both sides with the power to fix prices for all transactions between the vineyards and businesses.

• 1940 : The Châlons Committee becomes the National Champagne Bureau with wider jurisdiction.
  
   
• 1941 : The National Bureau becomes the « Comité Interprofessionnel du Vin de Champagne »  - statute April 12th, 1941.