Proposal for a Council Regulation amending Regulation (EEC) No 1696/71 on the common organisation of the market in hops (COM(2000) 834 final — 2000/0330(CNS))
Date: 2001-03-27
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU aid, aid per hectare, aid system, common organisation of markets, hops, producer organisation

27.3.2001

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

C 96 E/345

Proposal for a Council Regulation amending Regulation (EEC) No 1696/71 on the common organi-
sation of the market in hops

(2001/C 96 E/34)

COM(2000) 834 final (cid:151) 2000/0330(CNS)

(Submitted by the Commission on 14 December 2000)

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community, and in particular Articles 36 and 37 thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament,

Article 1

Regulation (EEC) No 1696/71 is amended as follows:

1. Article 12(5)(a) is replaced by the following:

(cid:145)(a) The aid per hectare shall be the same for all groups of
varieties. For seven years from the 1996 harvest, it shall
amount to EUR 480/ha.(cid:146)

Having regard to the opinion of
Committee,

the Economic and Social

2. Article 12(5)(d) is replaced by the following:

(cid:145)(d) The aid withheld may be accumulated for a maximum
period of two years; at the end of that period all aid
withheld must have been spent.(cid:146)

3. In the second paragraph of Article 18, (cid:145)1 September 2000(cid:146)

is replaced by (cid:145)31 December 2002(cid:146).

4. Article 19 is deleted.

5. Article 20 is replaced by the following:

(cid:145)Article 20

The Commission shall be assisted by a management
for Hops,
the Member States and

1.
committee,
composed of representatives of
chaired by the representative of the Commission.

the Management Committee

2. Where reference is made to this paragraph,
the
management procedure laid down in Article 4 of Decision
1999/468/EC shall apply and Article 7(3) of that Decision
shall be complied with.

The period laid down in Article 4(3) of Decision

3.
1999/468/EC shall be one month.(cid:146)

Article 2

into force on the third day
This Regulation shall enter
following its publication in the Official Journal of the European
Communities.

It shall apply from 1 January 2001.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly
applicable in all Member States.

Whereas:

(1) Article 12(5) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1696/71 (1)
stipulates that the amount of aid for hops produced in the
Community is fixed for a period of five years from the
1996 to the 2000 harvests.

(2) As laid down in Article 18 of the above Regulation, the
Commission presented to the Council a report assessing the
hops sector in the European Union. The report shows that
production is gradually being adapted to the requirements
of demand, from the points of view of quantity, by means
of a reduction in land under hops and in quantities
produced, and quality, by moving towards the varieties
most in demand by the brewing industry.

(3) In view of current developments in the sector and of the
expiry of the period of application of the special measures
in 2002, and taking account of
the accession to the
European Union of certain major producer countries, the
amount of aid currently valid should be continued for a
period of
the
common organisation of the market should be reviewed
before 31 December 2002.

two years and the overall operation of

(4) The measures required to implement this Regulation are
management measures within the meaning of Article 2
of Council Decision 1999/468/EC of 28 June 1999 laying
down the procedures for the exercise of
implementing
powers conferred on the Commission (2), so they should
be
the management
accordance with
procedure laid down in Article 4 of that Decision,

adopted

in

(1) OJ L 175, 4.8.1971, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation

(EC) No 191/2000 (OJ L 23, 28.1.2000, p. 4).

(2) OJ L 184, 17.7.1999, p. 23.