| CN code | Description of goods |
|---|---|
| Hop cones, fresh or dried, whether or not ground, powdered or in the form of pellets; lupulin |
| CN code | Description of goods |
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| Vegetable saps and extracts of hops |
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
Corrected by
(a) " hops" means the dried inflorescences, also known as cones, of the (female) climbing hop plant (Humulus lupulus ); these inflorescences, which are greenish yellow and of an ovoid shape, have a flower stalk and their longest dimension generally varies from 2 to 5 cm;(b) " hop powder" means the product obtained by milling the hops, containing all the natural elements thereof;(c) " hop powder with higher lupulin content" means the product obtained by milling the hops after mechanical removal of a part of the leaves, stalks, bracts and rachides;(d) " extract of hops" means the concentrated products obtained by the action of a solvent on the hops or on the hop powder;(e) " mixed hop products" means a mixture of two or more of the products referred to in points (a) to (d).
(a) the place(s) of production of the hops; (b) the year(s) of harvesting; (c) the variety or varieties.
(a) in order to satisfy the trade requirements of certain third countries; or (b) for products intended for special uses.
(a) not prejudice the normal marketing of products for which the certificate has been issued; (b) be accompanied by guarantees intended to avoid any confusion with those products.
(a) concentrating supply and helping to stabilise the market by marketing all the produce of the members or, if necessary, by purchasing hops at a higher price in accordance with Article 7(4)(a); (b) adapting such production jointly to the requirements of the market and improving the product, in particular by converting to other varieties, reorganising hop gardens, carrying out promotion, and conducting research into production, marketing and integrated protection; (c) promoting the rationalisation and mechanisation of cultivation and harvesting operations in order to render production more profitable and better protect the environment; (d) deciding what varieties of hops may be grown by its members and adopting common rules on production.
(a) they have legal personality or sufficient legal capacity to be subject, under national legislation, to rights and obligations; (b) they apply common rules for production and placing on the market (first stage of marketing); (c) their statutes include an obligation for producers who are members of groups to: (i) comply with the common rules on production and decisions on the varieties to be grown; (ii) market all their produce through the group;
(d) they provide proof of economically viable activity; (e) they exclude throughout their field of activity any discrimination between Community producers or groups in respect of, in particular, their nationality or place of establishment; (f) they guarantee all producers who undertake to comply with the statutes, without discrimination, the right to belong to a group; (g) their statutes include provisions aimed at ensuring that the members of a group who wish to give up their membership may do so after having been a member for at least three years and provided that they inform the group of their intention at least one year before they leave, without prejudice to the national laws or regulations designed to protect, in specific cases, the group or creditors thereof against the financial consequences which might arise from a member leaving, or to prevent a member from leaving during the financial year; (h) their statutes include the obligation to keep separate accounts for the activities in respect of which they have been recognised; (i) they do not hold a dominant position in the Community.
(a) replace the obligation to have all their production marketed by the producer group provided for in paragraph 2(c)(ii) with marketing in accordance with common rules incorporated in the statutes, in order to ensure that the producer group has the right to monitor selling prices, which it must approve, failure to do so requiring the group to buy back the hops concerned at a higher price; (b) market, through the offices of another producer group chosen by their own group, products which by virtue of their characteristics are not necessarily covered by the commercial activities of the latter.
(a) the levying of any charge having equivalent effect to a customs duty; (b) the application of any quantitative restriction or measure having equivalent effect.
(a) the production potential; (b) the volume of supply; (c) the marketing conditions.
the minimum quality characteristics referred to in Article 4(2), the placing on the market within the meaning of Article 7(2)(b), the provisions laid down in Article 7(2)(g), the registration of contracts to supply hops as referred to in Article 14, the rules for sending the information referred to in Article 15.