Commission Regulation (EC) No 1557/2006 of 18 October 2006 laying down detailed rules for implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 1952/2005 as regards registration of contracts and the communicaiton of data concerning hops
Date: 2006-10-18
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: contract, delivery, disclosure of information, documentary reference recording, electronic document, harvest, hops, producer organisation

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1557/2006

of 18 October 2006

laying down detailed rules for implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 1952/2005 as regards
registration of contracts and the communicaiton of data concerning hops

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

must be concluded in writing and notified to the bodies
designated by each Member State.

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1952/2005 of 23
November 2005 concerning the common organisation of the
market in hops and repealing Regulations (EEC) No 1696/71,
(EEC) No 1037/72, (EEC) No 879/73 and (EEC) No 1981/82 (1),
and in particular the fourth and fifth indents of Article 17
thereof,

Whereas:

the

in the

adoption

of Regulation

Following
(EC) No
clarity and logic,
interests of
1952/2005,
Commission Regulation (EEC) No 776/73 of 20 March
1973 on registration of contracts and communication of
to hops (2) should be repealed and
data with respect
replaced by a new Regulation.

(5)

(6)

(7)

In the absence of other supporting documents, contracts
than those concluded in advance should be
other
registered on the basis of duplicates of
the receipted
invoices for the deliveries made.

Article 15 of Regulation (EC) No 1952/2005 lays down
that the Member States and the Commission must send
each other such information as is necessary for the
implementation of that Regulation. Rules should be laid
down for sending that information.

Hops are no longer grown in Ireland and therefore, in
the interests of clarity and logic, Commission Regulation
(EEC) No 1375/75 of 29 May 1975 on the provisions of
recognition of producer groups for hops in Ireland (3)
should be repealed.

(8)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of
the Management
Committee for Hops,

Article 14 of Regulation (EC) No 1952/2005 requires
to supply hops produced within the
any contract
Community concluded between a producer or an asso-
ciation of producers and a buyer to be registered. The
rules for such registration should consequently be laid
down.

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Deliveries made under contracts concluded in advance,
referred to in Article 14(2) of Regulation (EC) No
1952/2005, might not comply with the agreed terms,
particularly as regards quantities. Deliveries under those
contracts must therefore also be registered so as to have
accurate information on the disposal of hops.

contracts
the
In order
concluded in advance, it should be laid down that they

registration of

to facilitate

(1) OJ L 317, 3.12.2005, p. 29.
(2) OJ L 74, 22.3.1973, p. 14. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 1516/77 (OJ L 169, 7.7.1977, p. 12).

Article 1

for hops harvested in the Member State
Only contracts
concerned shall be registered under Article 14(1) of Regulation
(EC) No 1952/2005.

Article 2

The body designated by the Member State in accordance with
Article 14(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1952/2005 shall register all
deliveries made, distinguishing between contracts concluded in
advance, referred to in Article 14(2) of that Regulation, and
other contracts.

(3) OJ L 139, 30.5.1975, p. 27.

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

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Article 3

Article 5

Contracts concluded in advance shall be concluded in writing. A
copy of each contract concluded in advance shall be commu-
nicated by the producer or recognised producer group to the
its
body referred to in Article 2 within one month of
conclusion.

Article 4

The registration of contracts other than those concluded in
advance shall be on the basis of a duplicate of the receip-
ted invoice to be sent by the seller to the body referred to in
Article 2.

The seller may send such duplicates either as and when
deliveries are made or all
in any event
send them by 15 March.

together, but must

For each harvest, the Member States shall send the Commission
the information detailed in the Annex by electronic means by
15 April of the year following the harvest concerned.

Article 6

Regulations
repealed.

(EEC) Nos 776/73 and 1375/75 are hereby

Article 7

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following
the European
that of
Union.

its publication in the Official

Journal of

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

Done at Brussels, 18 October 2006.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

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ANNEX

HOPS: Contracts concluded in advance and harvest statement

Information to be sent to the Commission by 15 April of the year following that of the harvest concerned

Harvest:

....................................................................................

Member State:

....................................................................................

Bitter
hops

(2)

Aromatic
hops

(3)

Total

(4)

(1)

1.

QUANTITY OF HOPS COVERED BY CONTRACTS
CONCLUDED IN ADVANCE FOR THE HARVEST
CONCERNED (tonnes)

2.

DELIVERIES OF HOPS:

2.1. Under contracts concluded in advance

2.1.1. Quantity delivered (tonnes)

2.1.2. Average price (1) (EUR/kg (2))

2.2. Under other contracts

2.2.1. Quantity delivered (tonnes)

2.2.2. Average price (1) (EUR/kg (2))

2.3.

Total quantity delivered (tonnes)

3.

4.

QUANTITY OF HOPS REMAINING UNSOLD (tonnes)

ALPHA ACID:

4.1. Alpha-acid production (tonnes)

4.2. Average alpha-acid content (%)

5.

AREA DOWN TO HOPS (hectares):

5.1.

Total area harvested

5.2.

Total area newly sown (year of harvest)

6.

7.

NUMBER OF FARMERS GROWING HOPS

QUANTITY OF HOPS COVERED BY CONTRACTS
CONCLUDED IN ADVANCE FOR THE NEXT HARVEST
(tonnes)

(1) Farm-gate price.
(2) Member States using their national currency must use the conversion rate applicable on 1 January of the year following the harvest.