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►BCOUNCILREGULATION (EEC)No1784/77
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 C 241 21 29.8.1994(adapted by Council Decision 95/1/EC, Euratom, ECSC) L 1 1 1.1.1995
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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 on the common organization of the market in hops(1), aslas t
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1170/77(2), and in particular Article
2 (4) thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,WhereasRegulation (EEC) No 1696/71 providesfor the certification of
the productsreferred to in Article 1, harves ted or prepared in theCommunity; whereasthe general rulesthereof relating to thiscertifica-
tion should be laid down;
Whereas, in view of their special nature and their use, certain products
should be excluded from the certification procedure;
WhereasMember Statess hould be allowed to certify productsmeeting
the conditionslaid down in thisRegulation 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 requirementsare obs erved from the initial
marketing stage onwards;
Whereasin order to ens ure that certified productscan be identified,
rules should be laid down to the effect that the packaging should bearthe necessary particulars for official inspection purposes and for theinformation of buyers;
Whereasthe Member Statesconcerned s hould be allowed to define the
zones or regions to be considered as hop production areas;
Whereasthe certification principle impliess trict rulesgoverning
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, in view of users' requirements, it should be permissible to
blend certified hopswhich are not of the s ame variety and do notcome from the same production area in the manufacture 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 — 01.01.1996 — 001.001 — 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. ThisRegulation s hall apply to productsreferred to in Article 1 of
Regulation (EEC) No 1696/71 when harvested in the Community orwhen prepared from such products which have either been harvestedin the Community or imported from third countriesin 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 in the natural or processed state;
(b) isomerized hop extract;
(c) isomerized hop powder;
(d) a list of isomerized products to be drawn up in accordance with the
procedure referred to in Article 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) hopsand productsderived from hopsput in s mall packetsfor s ale
to private individualsfor their own us e.
The products referred to in (a) to (f) shall be subject to a control proce-
dure to be determined.
2.Thecertificatio nprocedur eshallincludetheissueofcertificates
andthemarkingandsealingofthepackages.
3.Certificatio nshallbecarriedoutunderofficialsurveillanc ebythe
Membe rStatesatthefirstmarketingstage,thatistosaybeforethe
productisofferedforsale,and,inanyevent,beforeprocessing .Inthe
caseofhopcones,itshalltakeplacenotlaterthan31Marchofthe
yearfollowin gtheyearofharvesting .However ,wheredisposal
problem sariseforagivenharvest,theabovedeadlin emaybeextended
beyond31Marchto31Julyofthesameyearatthelatest,inaccor-
dancewiththeprocedur elaiddowninArticle20ofRegulatio n(EEC)
No1696/71.
Without prejudice to the time limitss et out above, for hopsgrown in
the territory of the former German Democratic Republic, prepared andprocessed on the farms producing hops referred to in the Annex to this
Regulation 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 can be guaranteed. Certification of hop
granules processed on the abovementioned farms shall be carried out
in the certification centresin the territory of the former German Demo-cratic Republic.
4.Certificationproceduresshalltakeplaceatthefarmorinestab-
lishmentsapprovedbytheMemberStatesandknownas‘certification
centres’or‘certificationwarehouses’.
5.If,aftercertification,thepackagingofoneoftheproductsspeci-
fiedinparagraph1ischanged,withorwithoutfurtherprocessing,the
productshallbesubjecttoanewcertificationprocedure.
6.MemberStatesshalldesignatetheofficialbodiesordepartments
authorizedtocarryoutcertificationandthoseresponsibleforensuring
compliancewiththecertificationsystem.
Article 2
1. The stage of marketing referred to in Article 2 (2) of Regulation
(EEC) No 1696/71 for which the minimum marketing requirementsshall be valid shall be the stage at which the certificate is issued.1977R1784 — EN — 01.01.1996 — 001.001 — 3
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2. The factorsto which the requirementsreferred to in paragraph 1
shall relate, the moisture content and the foreign bodies content, shallbe determined for each product in accordance with the procedure laid
down in Article 20 of Regulation (EEC) No 1696/71.
Article 3
The particularsappearing 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’,asthe cas e may be;
(b) the variety or varieties;
(c) an indication identifying the reference number of the certificate.
These particulars shall appear in legible, indelible characters of
uniform size.
Article 5
The certificate shall include at least the following particulars:1. in the case of hops:
(a) the description of the product;
(b) the reference number of the certificate;
(c) the net and/or gross weight;
(d) the hop production area;
(e) the year of harvesting;
(f) the variety.
2. in the case of products prepared from hops:
in addition to the particularslis ted in paragraph 1, the place and 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 aproducer on behalf of such an institute, particulars of the variety orvarietiesreferred to in Article 4 (b) and Article 5 (1) (f) may bereplaced by a name or number identifying the strain in question.
Article 6
1. Hop production areass hall mean the zonesor regionsof produc-
tion in the list prepared by the Member States concerned.
2. The Commission shall ensure that the list of hop production areas
ispublis hed in the Official Journal of the European Communities .
Article 7
With the exception of the case provided for in Article 1 (1) (a), only
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prepared therefrom ◄and hopsimported from third countriesin
accordance with Article 5 of Regulation (EEC) No 1696/71 may beused in the manufacture of products prepared from hops.1977R1784 — EN — 01.01.1996 — 001.001 — 4
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Article 8
1. While they are in circulation, the productscovered by thisRegu-
lation may be blended only under supervision in certification centres or
certification warehouses.
2. Hops for blending must come from the same production area and
the same harvest and be of the same variety.
3. However, certified hopsof Community origin and certified hop
products prepared therefrom which are from the same harvest but ofdifferent varietiesand from different production areasmay be blendedin the manufacture of powder and extractsprovided that the certificate
accompanying 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
productshave been us ed in combination with cone hopsfor themanufacturing of hop products, or if different hop products have
been used, the percentage weight of each variety based on the
quantity of cone hopswhich wasus ed for the preparation of theinput products;
(c) the reference numbers of the certificates issued for the hops and the
hop productsus ed.
Article 9
Within three monthsfollowing the entry into force of thisRegulation
Member States shall communicate to the Commission, who shallinform the Member States thereof, the names and addresses of thebodies 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. ◄
Article 10
This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 August 1978.However, hop powder and hop extractsmanufactured before 1 Augus t
1978 may be marketed without certificatesuntil 31 March 1979. The
latter date may be deferred in accordance with the procedure laiddown in Article 20 of Regulation (EEC) No 1696/71.
ThisRegulation s hall be binding in itsentirety and directly applicable
in all Member States.1977R1784 — EN — 01.01.1996 — 001.001 — 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 — 01.01.1996 — 001.001 — 6