Burgenland could well be taken as a sign of the Soviet Union towards opening the borders to the Western countries, starting in the late 1970s. Despite Burgenland (especially the area around Neusiedler See) always producing excellent wine, some vintners in Burgenland added illegal substances to their wine in the mid-1980s. When this was revealed, Austria's wine exports dwindled dramatically. After recovering from the scandal, vintners in Austria, not only in Burgenland, started focusing on quality and mostly stopped producing poor quality wine. On 27 July 1989, the Foreign ministers of Austria and Hungary, Alois Mock and Gyula Horn, cut the Iron
South Tyrol quality mark Products with the quality seal guarantee a certified quality from South Tyrol. The mark of quality serves the consumer as a sign. All the products with the South Tyrol quality seal guarantee: The seal of quality meets the strict requirements of EU law and was approved by the European Commission in 2005. It’s ruled by the provincial law Nr. 12/2005. The bearer and owner of the mark of quality is the Autonomous Province of Bolzano. The seal "Quality Südtirol" may be used to label only specific agricultural products and food which are compliant with the rules and the strict quality