Wine law Old World wines tend to have more stringent regulations than New World wines. Various wine laws, however, may include appellation-based regulations that cover boundaries as well as permitted grape varieties and winemaking practice-such as the French "Appellation d'origine contrôlée" (AOC), Italian "Denominazione di origine controllata" (DOC), Spanish "Denominación de Origen" (DO) and Portuguese "Denominação de Origem Controlada" (DOC). In some New World wine regions, such as the United States and Australia, the wine laws of the appellation systems (American Viticultural Area (AVA) and Australian Geographical Indication (GIs)) only pertain to boundary specifics and guaranteeing that a certain percentage of grapes
New Laws they did result in the liberation of thousands of indigenous workers, who had been held in a state of semi-slavery. The New Laws were the results of a reform movement in reaction to what were considered to be the less effective, decades-old "Leyes de Burgos" (Laws of Burgos), issued by King Ferdinand II of Aragon on December 27, 1512. These laws were the first intended to regulate relations between the Spaniards and the recently conquered indigenous peoples of the New World. These are regarded as the first humanitarian laws in the New World. They were not fully implemented because of