CELEX: 51983PC0444
Language: en
Date: 1983-07-13
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) AMENDING REGULATION ( EEC ) NO 1784/77 CONCERNING THE CERTIFICATION OF HOPS

21.9.83                               Official Journal of the European Communities                             No C 253/3
                                                              II
                                                      (Preparatory Acts)
                                                COMMISSION
              Proposal for a Council Regulation amending Regulation (EEC) No 1784/77 concerning
                                                  the certification of hops
                              (Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 18 July 1983)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                        1. The following Article 5a is inserted:
COMMUNITIES
Having regard to the Treaty              establishing   the            Article 5a
European Economic Community,
                                                                      In the case of hops from experimental strains in
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                          the course of development and produced by a
1696/71 of 26 July 1971 on the common organi-                         research institute on its own premises or by a
zation of the market in hops ('), as last amended by                  producer on behalf of such an institute, particulars
the Act of Accession of 1979, and in particular Article               of the variety or varieties referred to in Article 4
2 (4) thereof,                                                        (b) and Article 5 (1) (f) may be replaced by a name
                                                                      or number identifying the strain in question.'
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1784/77 (2),                   2. Article 8 (2) and (3) are replaced by the following:
as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3041/
79 (3), lays down general rules relating to certi-                    2.     Hops for blending must come from the same
fication; whereas Articles 4 and 5 of that Regulation                 production area and the same harvest and belong
provide that each package and certificate shall bear                  to the same group of varieties.
particulars of the variety or varieties of hop; whereas
this requirement cannot be met in the case of
experimental strains which must occasionally be                       3.     However, certified hops of Community
marketed where those products are being tested on a                   origin and from the same harvest, but from
large scale in the brewing industry; whereas there                    different groups of varieties and production areas,
should be added to the abovementioned Regulation                      may be blended in the manufacture of hop powder
special provisions relating to the description of the                 and extracts.
hops on packages and certificates;
                                                                      4.     In the case of the blends referred to in
Whereas Article 8 of Regulation (EEC) No 1784/77                      paragraphs 2 and 3, the certificate accompanying
provides that only hops from the same production                      the product shall contain particulars of:
area, the same harvest and of the same variety may be
blended; whereas this latter requirement is liable to                 (a) the varieties used, the production areas and the
make it more difficult to form large consignments in                       year of harvesting;
response to demand; whereas in order to permit                        (b) the percentage weight of each variety used in
wider possibilities for blending, the abovementioned                       the blend;
Article should be amended by authorizing the
blending of hops from the same varietal group while                   (c) the reference numbers of the certificate issued
requiring particulars of the varieties used to be shown                    for the hops used.
on the certificate accompanying the product obtained,
 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:                                                               Article 2
                          Article 1
 Regulation (EEC) No 1784/77 is hereby amended as                  This Regulation shall enter into force on the third
 follows:                                                          day following its publication in the Official Journal of
                                                                   the European Communities.
 (*) OJ No L 175, 4. 8. 1971, p. 1.
 (2) OJNoL200, 8. 8. 1977, p. 1.                                   This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and
 O OJ No L 343, 31. 12. 1979, p. 4.                                directly applicable in all Member States.