1. Wine names referred to in Articles 51 and 54 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 (33) and Article 28 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 753/2002 (34) shall be automatically protected under this Regulation. The Commission shall list them in the register provided for in Article 104 of this Regulation.
2. The Commission shall take the corresponding formal step of removing wine names to which Article 118s(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 applies from the register provided for in Article 104 of this Regulation by means of implementing acts adopted without applying the procedure referred to in Article 229(2) or (3) of this Regulation.
3. Article 106 shall not apply to existing protected wine names referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article.
Until 31 December 2014, the Commission may, on its own initiative, adopt implementing acts cancelling the protection of existing protected wine names referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article if they do not meet the conditions laid down in Article 93.
Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 229(2).
4. For Croatia, the wine names published in the Official Journal of the European Union (35) shall be protected under this Regulation, subject to a favourable outcome of the objection procedure. The Commission shall list them in the register provided for in Article 104.