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of19July1977
concerningthecertification ofhops
(OJ L 200, 8.8.1977, p. 1)
Amended by:
Official Journal
No page date
►M1Council Regulation (EEC) No 2225/79 of 9 October 1979 L 257 1 12.10.1979
►M2Council Regulation (EEC) No 2039/85 of 23 July 1985 L 193 1 25.7.1985
►M3Council Regulation (EEC) No 1605/91 of 10 June 1991 L 149 14 14.6.1991
►M4Council Regulation (EEC) No 1987/93 of 19 July 1993 L 182 1 24.7.1993
►M5Council Regulation (EC) No 1323/96 of 26 June 1996 L 171 1 10.7.1996
Amended by:
►A1Act of Accession of Austria, Sweden and Finland C241 21 29.8.1994
(adapted by Council Decision 95/1/EC, Euratom, ECSC) L 1 1 1.1.1995
►A2Act concerning the conditions of accession of the Czech Republic, the
Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia,the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic ofMalta, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak
Republic and the adjustments to the Treaties on which the European
Union is foundedL 236 33 23.9.2003
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COUNCILREGULATION(EEC)No1784/77
of19July1977
concerningthecertification ofhops
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic
Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1696/71 of 26 July
1971 onthe commonorgan izationof the market inhops(1), as last
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1170/77 (2), and in particular Article
2 (4) thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,Whereas Regulation(EEC) No 1696/71 provides for the certificationof
the products referred to inArticle 1, harvested or prepared intheCommunity; whereas the general rules thereof relating to this certifica-
tionshould be laid down ;
Whereas, in view of their special nature and their use, certain products
should be excluded from the certificationprocedure;
Whereas Member States should be allowed to certify products meeting
the conditions laid down in this Regulation through authorized bodiesor departments specially designated for that purpose;
Whereas, to ensure compliance with the certification procedure, provi-
sion should be made for inspection in accordance with appropriaterules;
Whereas, under Article 2 (2) of the abovementioned Regulation, certi-
ficates can be issued only for products meeting minimum qualitystandards; whereas provision should be made to ensure that the
minimum marketing requirements are observed from the initial
marketing stage onwards;
Whereas in order to ensure that certified products can be identified,
rules should be laid downto the effect that the packagin g should bearthe necessary particulars for official inspection purposes and for theinformation of buyers;
Whereas the Member States concerned should be allowed to define the
zones or regions to be considered as hop production areas;
Whereas the certification principle implies strict rules governing
blends; whereas, therefore, blends of hop cones should be authorizedonly if they consist of certified products of the same variety coming
from the same harvest and the same production area; whereas, to
ensure compliance with this provision, it should also be specified thatblending must be done under supervision and that blends must besubject to the same certification procedure as their constituents;
Whereas, inview of users' requiremen ts, it should be permissible to
blend certified hops which are not of the same variety and do notcome from the same productionarea inthe man ufacture of powder
and extracts; whereas, therefore, the inspection and certification
requirements should be the same as for the blends of hop conesreferred to above,1977R1784 — EN — 01.05.2004 — 002.001 — 2
(1) OJ No L 175, 4. 8. 1971, p. 1.
(2) OJ No L 137, 3. 6. 1977, p. 7.
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
1. This Regulationshall apply to products referred to inArticle 1 of
Regulation(EEC) No 1696/71 whenharvested inthe Commun ity orwhenprepared from such products which have either beenharvestedin the Community or imported from third countries in accordancewith Article 5 of the said Regulation, with the exception of:
(a) hops harvested on land owned by a brewery and used by that
brewery inthe n atural or processed state;
(b) isomerized hop extract;
(c) isomerized hop powder;
(d) a list of isomerized products to be drawnup inaccordan ce with the
procedure referred to inArticle 19 of Regulation(EEC) No 1696/
71;
(e) products derived from hops and processed under contract on behalf
of a brewery, provided that those products are used by the breweryitself;
(f) hops and products derived from hops put in small packets for sale
to private individuals for their own use.
The products referred to in(a) to (f) shall be subject to a con trol proce-
dure to be determined.
2. The certificationprocedure shall in clude the issue of certificates
and the marking and sealing of the packages.
3. Certification shall be carried out under official surveillance by the
Member States at the first marketing stage, that is to say before theproduct is offered for sale, and, in any event, before processing. In thecase of hop cones, it shall take place not later than 31 March of theyear following the year of harvesting. However, where disposal
problems arise for a given harvest, the above deadline may be extended
beyond 31 March to 31 July of the same year at the latest, in accor-dance with the procedure laid down in Article 20 of Regulation (EEC)No 1696/71.
Without prejudice to the time limits set out above, for hops grownin
the territory of the former GermanDemocratic Republic, prepared an dprocessed on the farms producing hops referred to in the Annex to thisRegulation and until ►
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be carried out after processing of the hops into granules but before
any other processing, provided that compliance with the minimummarketing requirements referred to in the Annex to Commission Regu-lation(EEC) No 890/78 canbe guaran teed. Certificationof hopgranules processed on the abovementioned farms shall be carried out
inthe certificationcen tres inthe territory of the former GermanDemo-
cratic Republic.
4. Certificationprocedures shall take place at the farm or inestab-
lishments approved by the Member States and known as ‘certificationcentres’ or ‘certification warehouses’.
5. If, after certification, the packaging of one of the products speci-
fied in paragraph 1 is changed, with or without further processing, theproduct shall be subject to a new certification procedure.
6. Member States shall designate the official bodies or departments
authorized to carry out certification and those responsible for ensuringcompliance with the certification system.1977R1784 — EN — 01.05.2004 — 002.001 — 3
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Article 2
1. The stage of marketing referred to in Article 2 (2) of Regulation
(EEC) No 1696/71 for which the minimum marketing requirements
shall be valid shall be the stage at which the certificate is issued.
2. The factors to which the requirements referred to in paragraph 1
shall relate, the moisture content and the foreign bodies content, shallbe determined for each product in accordance with the procedure laiddowninArticle 20 of Regulation(EEC) No 1696/71.
Article 3
The particulars appearing on each package and the certificate which
accompanies the product shall constitute proof of certification.
Article 4
Each package shall bear at least the following particulars in one of the
Community languages:
(a) the description of the product including, in the case of hops, with
or without seeds, the words ‘prepared hops’ or ‘unprepared hops’,as the case may be;
(b) the variety or varieties;
(c) an indication identifying the reference number of the certificate.
These particulars shall appear inlegible, in delible characters of
uniform size.
Article 5
The certificate shall include at least the following particulars:1. inthe case of hops:
(a) the descriptionof the product;
(b) the reference number of the certificate;
(c) the net and/or gross weight;
(d) the hop productionarea;
(e) the year of harvesting;
(f) the variety.
2. inthe case of products prepared from hops:
inadditionto the particulars listed inparagraph 1, the place an d date
of processing.
Article 5a
In the case of hops from experimental strains in the course of develop-
ment and produced by a research institute on its own premises or by a
producer onbehalf of such anin stitute, particulars of the variety orvarieties referred to inArticle 4 (b) an d Article 5 (1) (f) may bereplaced by a name or number identifying the strain in question.
Article 6
1. Hop production areas shall mean the zones or regions of produc-
tion in the list prepared by the Member States concerned.
2. The Commissionshall en sure that the list of hop productionareas
is published inthe Official Journal of the European Communities .1977R1784 — EN — 01.05.2004 — 002.001 — 4
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Article 7
With the exceptionof the case provided for inArticle 1 (1) (a), on ly
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prepared therefrom ◄and hops imported from third countries in
accordance with Article 5 of Regulation (EEC) No 1696/71 may beused inthe man ufacture of products prepared from hops.
Article 8
1. While they are incirculation , the products covered by this Regu-
lation may be blended only under supervision in certification centres orcertificationwarehouses.
2. Hops for blending must come from the same production area and
the same harvest and be of the same variety.
3. However, certified hops of Community origin and certified hop
products prepared therefrom which are from the same harvest but of
different varieties and from different production areas may be blendedin the manufacture of powder and extracts provided that the certificateaccompanying the product states:
(a) the varieties used, the production areas and the year of harvesting;
(b) the percentage weight of each variety used in the blend; if hop
products have been used in combination with cone hops for themanufacturing of hop products, or if different hop products havebeenused, the percen tage weight of each variety based onthequantity of cone hops which was used for the preparation of the
input products;
(c) the reference numbers of the certificates issued for the hops and the
hop products used.
Article 9
Within three months following the entry into force of this Regulation
Member States shall communicate to the Commission, who shall
inform the Member States thereof, the names and addresses of the
bodies or departments designated pursuant to Article 1 (6) and themeasures taken to implement this Regulation. ►
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communicate that information within 3 months from its accession. ◄
►A2The Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania,
Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia shall communicate
that information within four months from the date of accession. ◄
Article 10
This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 August 1978.However, hop powder and hop extracts manufactured before 1 August
1978 may be marketed without certificates until 31 March 1979. The
latter date may be deferred inaccordan ce with the procedure laiddowninArticle 20 of Regulation(EEC) No 1696/71.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable
inall Member States.1977R1784 — EN — 01.05.2004 — 002.001 — 5
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ANNEX
Farmsonwhichcertificationmaybecarriedoutafterprocessingintogran-
ules:
LAND OF SAXONY-ANHALT: Eichenbarleben (formerly Irrleben)
OsterweddingenBlumenberg (formerly Langenwed-
dingen)
LAND OF THURINGIA: Kutzleben (formerly Bad Tennstedt)
Heringen
Kindelbrück
Vogelsberg (formerly Großbrembach)Großenehrich
Hohenebra.1977R1784 — EN — 01.05.2004 — 002.001 — 6