CELEX: 31972D0286
Language: en
Date: 1972-07-20 00:00:00
Title: 72/286/EEC: Commission Decision of 20 July 1972 setting up an Advisory Committee on Hops

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7.8.72                             Official Journal of the European Communities                        No L 179 / 13
                                             COMMISSION DECISION
                                                   of 20 July 1972
                                     setting up an Advisory Committee on Hops
                                                    (72/286/EEC)
THE    COMMISSION       OF   THE    EUROPEAN      COM­        Whereas the various representative bodies in the
MUNITIES,                                                     agricultural industry and consumer associations in
                                                               the Member States have formed organizations at
                                                              Community level :
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the
European Economic Community;
                                                              HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS :
Whereas, under point V of its final resolution, the
Agricultural Conference of the Member States which                                   Article 1
met at Stresa from 3 to 12 July 1958 noted with
satisfaction 'the intention expressed by the                  1.    There shall be attached to the Commission an
Commission     to   maintain   close   and   continuous
                                                              Advisory Committee on Hops (hereinafter called the
cooperation with . . . trade organizations, in                'Committee').
particular for the implementation of the tasks
provided for in this resolution';
                                                              2. The following groups shall be represented on
                                                              the Committee : hop producers, hop producers'
Whereas in its Opinion of 6 May 1960, the Economic            cooperatives, the hop trade the brewing industry,
and Social Committee requested the Commission 'to             workers in agriculture, and consumers.
involve at Community level interested producers',
traders' arid employees' organizations and consumers
in the work of each of these offices and funds within                                Article 2
an Advisory Committee';
                                                              1.    The Committee may be consulted by the
Whereas it is necessary that the Commission obtain            Commission      on   any    problem  concerning    the
the views of the various sections of the industry and         implementation of Council Regulation (EEC) No
of consumers on problems arising from the                     1696/711 of 26 July 1971 on the common
establishment of a common organization of the                 organization of the market in hops and in particular
market in hops ;                                              on measures adopted within the framework of that
                                                              Regulation.
Whereas all sections of the industry directly affected        The Chairman of the Committee may, in particular at
by the introduction of that common organization of            the request of any of the groups represented, indicate
the market, and also consumers, should have the               to the Commission the desirability of consulting the
possibility of participating in the formulation of            Committee on any matter within the latter's
opinions requested by the Commission ;                        competence but on which its opinion has not been
                                                              sought.
Whereas representatives of the industry processing
                                                              2. In respect of problems concerning the method
hops into derived products should be able to take
part in the work of the Committee and whereas                 of selling hops covered by the provisions of Article 6
under present circumstances it is possible for them to
do so through the groups existing at Community
level;                                                        1 OJ No L 175, 4.8.1971, p. 1 .
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of Regulation (EEC) No- 1696/71 and in particular                                        Article 5
the registration of contracts provided for in that
Article, the Commission may, acting in accordance                1 . There shall be set up within the Committee a
with the procedure laid down in Article 5 of this                joint working party consisting of four producers'
Decision, consult only the representatives of hop                representatives and four trade and industry
producers and of the hop and brewing industries.               . representatives appointed by the Commission on
                                                                 proposals from the trade organizations concerned in
                                                                 accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 4.
                        Article 3
                                                                 The trade and industry representatives shall include :
1.    The Committee shall consist of twenty-four                 — two representatives of the hop trade,
members .                                                        — two representatives of the brewing industry.
2.    Seats on the Committee shall be apportioned as             2. In the event of a member of the joint working
follows :                                                        party being unable to attend a meeting, and in this
                                                                 event only, his alternate may replace him. Alternates,
— twelve to representatives of hop producers and                 who need not be members of the Committee, shall be
    hop cooperatives, of whom at least two shall                 appointed by the Commission on proposals from the
    represent hop cooperatives ;                                 trade organizations concerned in accordance with the
— four to representatives of the hop trade, including            procedure laid down in Article 4.
    processing into derived products ;                           If a full member attends a meeting, his alternate shall
-— four to representatives of the brewing industry ;             not also attend.
— three to representatives of agricultural workers ;             3 . The Chairman of the joint working party may,
— one to a consumers' representative.                            in particular at the request of either of the two
                                                                 groups represented on the working party, indicate to
                                                                 the Commission the desirability of consulting the
                                                                 working party on any matter referred to in Article 2
                        Article 4
                                                                 (2) on which it has not been consulted.
1 . Members of the Committee shall be appointed
by the Commission on proposals from the trade or                                         Article 6
consumers' organizations set up at Community level
which are most representative of the groups referred             1.    The Committee shall, by a two-thirds majority
to in Article 1 (2) and whose activities come within             of members present, elect a Chairman and two
the scope of the common organization of the market               Vice-Chairmen for a period of three years.
in hops .
                                                                 It may, by the same majority, elect other members as
These organizations shall put forward the names of .             officers. In that case, the officers other than the
two candidates of different nationalities for each place         Chairman     shall   include    not more    than   one
to be filled.                                                    representative of each group represented on the
                                                                 Committee.
2.    The     term of   office  for  members     of  the
                                                                 The officers shall prepare and organize the work of
Committee shall be three years. Their appointments               the Committee .
may be renewed. The duties performed shall be
unremunerated.
                                                                 2 . The joint working party shall, by a two-thirds
After expiry of the three years members of the                   majority of members present,- elect a Chairman and
Committee shall remain in office until they are                  Vice-Chairman for a period of one year.
replaced or until their appointments are renewed.                The Chairman and Vice-Chairman may not both
In the event of the death or resignation of a member             come from the same group.
of the Committee or of his ceasing to belong to the              They shall be chosen alternately from the two groups
organization which he represents, he shall be replaced           represented.
for the remainder of his term of office in accordance
with the procedure laid down in paragraph 1 .
                                                                                         Article 7
3 . The list of members shall be published by the
Commission for information purposes in the Official              1 . At the request of any of the groups represented,
Journal of the European Communities.                             the Chairman may invite a representative of the
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central body of the group concerned to be present at
meetings. He may in the same manner request any              3 . The views expressed by the groups represented
person with special qualifications in one of the             shall be included in a report of the proceedings
subjects on the agenda to take part in an expert             forwarded to the Commission.
capacity in meetings of the Committee.
                                                             In the event of unanimous agreement being reached
2.    The Chairman of the joint working party may            in the Committee on the opinion to be given, the
invite any person with special qualifications in one of      Committee shall formulate joint conclusions and
the subjects on the agenda to take part in an expert         attach them to the report.
capacity in meetings of the working party.                   The outcome of the Committee's discussions shall be
3 . Experts shall be present only at the discussion          communicated by the Commission to the Council
in the Committee or in the joint working party of            and to the Management Committee on request.
those questions on account of which they were
invited.
                                                                                     Article 11
                       Article 8
                                                             The Chairman of the joint working party shall
                                                             inform the Committee of its work.
The Committee may set up internal working parties.
                       Article 9                                                     Article 12
1 . The Committee and the joint working party                Without prejudice to the provisions of Article 214 of
shall be convened by the Commission and shall meet            the Treaty, where the Commission informs them that
at Commission headquarters. Meetings of the officers         the opinion requested is on a matter of a confidential
shall be convened by the Chairman in agreement               nature, members of the Committee and of the joint
with the Commission .                                        working party shall not disclose information which
                                                              has come to their knowledge through the work of the
2. Representatives of the Commission departments              Committee or of the joint working party.
concerned shall take part in meetings of the
Committee, its officers, its working parties and the         In such cases, only Committee members and the
joint working party.                                          representatives of the Commission departments shall
                                                              be present at the meetings.
3.     The Commission shall provide secretarial
services for the Committee, its officers, its working
parties and the joint working party.                                                 Article 13
                                                              This Decision may be amended by the Commission
                       Article 10
                                                              in the light of experience.
 1.    The Committee and the joint working party              Done at Brussels, 20 July 1972.
 shall discuss matters on which the Commission has
 requested an opinion. No vote shall be taken .                                                 For the Commission
2.     The Commission may, when seeking the                                                         The President
 opinion of the Committee, set a time limit within
which such opinion shall be given.                                                               S. L. MANSHOLT