Proposal for a Council Regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 1098/98 introducing special temporary measures for hops
Date: 2002-09-10
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: agricultural production policy, fallow, grubbing premium, hops

C 331 E/194

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

31.12.2002

Proposal for a Council Regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 1098/98 introducing special
temporary measures for hops

(2002/C 331 E/36)

COM(2002) 493 final

(Submitted by the Commission on 10 September 2002)

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

It is proposed that the Council adopt the annexed proposal for a Regulation the purpose of which is to
extend for one year application of the special temporary measures for hops introduced in 1998. Those
measures are of two types: temporary resting and grubbing-up.

The aim of the measures is to reduce the amount of land under hops in the European Union so as to
better balance supply and demand and thus stabilise the market.

Although the area of land has been reduced by 10 % (by comparison with 1997), the balance has yet to be
achieved and it is therefore necessary to continue to reduce the amount of land for another year.

The evaluation report which the Commission is obliged to present to the Council by 31 December 2003 at
the latest will, of course, cover all provisions under the common market organisation, including the special
measures.

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

(3) Articles 2 and 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1098/98

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

should therefore be amended,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Article 1

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1696/71 of
26 July 1971 on the common organisation of the market in
hops (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1514/2001 (2),
and in particular Article 16a thereof,

Whereas:

(1) To rectify a surplus on the market in hops Council Regu-
lation (EC) No 1098/98 of 25 May 1998 (3)
introduces
special temporary measures under the procedure provided
for in Article 16a of Regulation (EEC) No 1696/71. Thus,
in the Member States deciding to apply those special
measures, producer groups may, up to and including the
2002 harvest, have recourse to temporary resting and/or
permanent grubbing-up of land under hops.

(2) Although

of

the

special

resting

application

programme

and
four years of
the
grubbing-up measures over the first
the Council has
by
adopted
five-year
permitted a reduction in land under hops of 10 % by
comparison with 1997, efforts to balance the market are
still required and the measures should be retained for
another year.

Regulation (EC) No 1098/98 is amended as follows:

1. In Article 2(1):

— in the first subparagraph ‘2002 harvest’ is replaced by

‘2003 harvest’,

— in the second subparagraph ‘2003 harvest’ is replaced by

‘2004 harvest’.

2. In Article 4,
following:

the second paragraph is replaced by the

‘It shall apply from the 1998 harvest up to and including
the 2004 harvest’.

Article 2

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

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

(1) OJ L 175, 4.8.1971, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 201, 26.7.2001, p. 8.
(3) OJ L 157, 25.5.1998, p. 7.