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Consolidated text: Commission Regulation (EC) No 1295/2008 of 18 December 2008 on the importation of hops from third countries (Codified version)

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1295/2008

of 18 December 2008

on the importation of hops from third countries

(Codified version)

(OJ L 340 19.12.2008, p. 45)

Amended by:

 

 

Official Journal

  No

page

date

 M1

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 267/2009 of 1 April 2009

  L 90

3

2.4.2009

 M2

COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 117/2012 of 10 February 2012

  L 38

33

11.2.2012

 M3

COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 631/2012 of 12 July 2012

  L 182

27

13.7.2012

 M4

COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 519/2013 of 21 February 2013

  L 158

74

10.6.2013

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COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2015/2000 of 9 November 2015

  L 292

4

10.11.2015

 M6

COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2020/2103 of 15 December 2020

  L 425

87

16.12.2020

►M7

COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2022/700 of 4 May 2022

  L 131

1

5.5.2022




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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1295/2008

of 18 December 2008

on the importation of hops from third countries

(Codified version)



Article 1

1.  
Entry into free circulation in the Community of the products from third countries referred to in point (f) of Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 shall be conditional upon proof being furnished that the requirements specified in Article 158(1) of that Regulation have been met.
2.  
The proof referred to in Article 1(1) of this Regulation shall be furnished by production of the attestation provided for in Article 158(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007, hereinafter referred to as an ‘attestation of equivalence’.

Article 2

For the purposes of this Regulation, ‘consignment’ means a quantity of a product having the same characteristics and sent by the same consignor at the same time to the same consignee.

Article 3

Attestations accompanying hops and hop products imported from third countries issued by an agency authorised by the third country of origin and appearing in Annex I shall be recognised as attestations of equivalence.

Annex I shall be revised on the basis of information communicated by the third countries concerned.

Article 4

1.  
The attestation of equivalence shall be made out for each consignment and shall consist of an original and two copies to be drawn up on a form corresponding to the model set out in Annex II and in accordance with the rules set out in Annex IV.
2.  
An attestation of equivalence shall be valid only if it is duly completed and authenticated by one of the agencies referred to in Annex I.
3.  
A duly authenticated attestation of equivalence is one which shows the place and date of issue and which has been signed and bears the stamp of the issuing agency.

Article 5

1.  

Each unit of packaging covered by an attestation of equivalence shall bear the following particulars in one of the official languages of the Community:

(a) 

the description of the product;

(b) 

the variety or varieties;

(c) 

the country of origin;

(d) 

the marks and numbers indicated in section 9 of the attestation of equivalence or the extract.

2.  
The particulars provided for in paragraph 1 shall appear in legible, indelible characters of uniform size on the outside of the package.

Article 6

1.  
Where, before its entry into free circulation, a consignment covered by an attestation of equivalence is split up and redispatched an attestation extract shall be drawn up in respect of each new consignment resulting from such splitting.

The attestation shall be replaced by the necessary number of attestation extracts.

Each extract shall be drawn up by the party concerned in one original and two copies on a form corresponding to the model given in Annex III and in accordance with the rules set out in Annex IV.

2.  
The customs authorities shall endorse accordingly the original and the two copies of the attestation of equivalence, and shall countersign the original and the two copies of each extract.

They shall retain the original of the attestation of equivalence, send the two copies to the competent authority as referred to in Article 21 of Regulation (EC) No 1850/2006 and return the original and the two copies of each extract to the person concerned.

Article 7

On completion of customs formalities required for release for free circulation in the Community of the product to which the attestation of equivalence or the extract relates, the original and the two copies shall be submitted to the customs authorities who shall countersign them, retaining the original. One copy shall be forwarded by the customs authorities to the competent authority, as referred to in Article 21 of Regulation (EC) No 1850/2006, of the Member State where the product enters into free circulation. The second copy shall be returned to the importer, who must keep it for at least three years.

Article 8

If the consignment is resold or split up after it has been released for free circulation, the product must be accompanied by an invoice or other commercial document drawn up by the vendor, giving the reference number of the attestation of equivalence or of the extract, together with the name of the authority which issued them.

The following information from the attestation of equivalence or, as the case may be, the extract shall also be included on the invoice or commercial document:

(a) 

for hop cones:

(i) 

the description of the product;

(ii) 

the gross weight;

(iii) 

the place of production;

(iv) 

the year of harvest;

(v) 

the variety;

(vi) 

the country of origin;

(vii) 

the markings and identification numbers given in Section 9 of the attestation;

(b) 

for products manufactured from hops, in addition to the particulars listed under point (a): the place and date of processing.

Article 9

1.  
The Member States shall regularly carry out checks on a random basis to verify whether hops which are imported pursuant to Article 158 of Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 comply with the minimum marketing requirements set out in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1850/2006.
2.  
The Member States shall report to the Commission, every year by 30 June, the frequency, type and result of the checks which were carried out over the year preceding that date. The checks shall cover at least 5 % of the number of hop consignments expected to be imported from a third country into the Member State in question during the year.
3.  
If the competent authorities of the Member States find that the samples examined do not satisfy the minimum marketing requirements referred to in paragraph 1, the corresponding consignments may not be marketed in the Community.
4.  
If a Member State discovers that the characteristics of a product do not conform to the details listed on the attestation of equivalence accompanying the product it shall notify the Commission thereof.

In accordance with the procedure provided for in Article 195(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007, a decision may be taken to withdraw the agency having issued the attestation of equivalence for such products from the list in Annex I.

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5.  
The notifications referred to in paragraphs 2 and 4 shall be made in accordance with Commission Regulation (EC) No 792/2009 ( 1 ).

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Article 10

By way of derogation from this Regulation, neither the production of the attestation referred to in Article 1(2) nor compliance with the provisions of Article 5 shall be required for the release for free circulation of the following hops and hop products where the weight per individual package does not exceed 1 kg in the case of hop cones and hop powder and 300 g in the case of hop extracts:

(a) 

small packages for sale to private individuals for their own use;

(b) 

for scientific and technical experiments;

(c) 

for fairs covered by the special customs arrangements for fairs.

The description, weight and final utilisation of the product must appear on the packaging.

Article 11

Regulations (EEC) No 3076/78 and (EEC) No 3077/78 are repealed.

References to the repealed Regulations shall be construed as references to this Regulation and shall be read in accordance with the correlation table in Annex VI.

Article 12

This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

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

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ANNEX I

AGENCIES AUTHORISED TO ISSUE ATTESTATIONS IN RESPECT OF:

Hop cones CN code: ex 12 10

Hop powders CN code: ex 12 10

Saps and extracts of hops CN code: 1302 13 00



Country of origin

Authorised agencies

Address

Code

Telephone

Fax

email (optional)

(AR) Argentina

Coordinación Regional Temática de Protección Vegetal (CRTPV).

Servicio Nacional de Sanidad y Calidad Agroalimentaria (SENASA)

Centro Regional Patagonia Norte

Calle 9 de Julio 933. General Roca, Provincia de Río Negro, Cod 8334

(54-298)

44 28 594

44 32 190

44 28 594

44 32 190

groca@senasa.gov.ar

cpaulovich@senasa.gov.ar

jesparza@senasa.gov.ar

Servicio Nacional de Sanidad y Calidad Agroalimentaria (SENASA)

Av. Pasco Colon 367 Ciudad Aut. de Buenos Aires, C1063ACD

(54-11)

41 21 50 00

41 21 50 00

webmaster@senasa.gob.ar

cdei@senasa.gob.ar

(AU) Australia

Biosecurity Tasmania -Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment

13 St John’s Avenue, New Town TAS 7008

Hobart TAS 7000, Australia

(61-3)

62 33 33 52

03 6165 3777

Biosecurity.Tasmania@dpipwe.tas.gov.au

or

Export.Enquiries.Tas@dpipwe.tas.gov.au

(CA) Canada

Pacific Agricultural Certification Society (PACS)

3402 32nd Avenue, Vernon, British Columbia, Canada, V1T2N1

(1-613)

1-250- 558-7927

1- 250-558-7947

admin@pacscertifiedorganic.ca

(CH) Switzerland

Labor Veritas

Engimattstrasse 11, Postfach 353, CH-8027 Zürich

(41-44)

283 29 30

201 42 49

admin@laborveritas.ch

(CN) China

Tianjin Airport Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau of the People’s Republic of China

No 33 Youyi Road, Hexi District Tianjin 300201

(86-22)

28 13 40 78

28 13 40 78

ciqtj2002@163.com

Tianjin Economic and Technical Development Zone Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau of the People’s Republic of China

No 8, Zhaofaxincun 2nd Avenue, TEDA Tianjin 300457

(86-22)

662 98-343

662 98-245

zhujw@tjciq.gov.cn

Inner Mongolia Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau of the People’s Republic of China

No 12 Erdos Street, Saihan District, Huhhot City Inner Mongolia 010020

(86-471)

434-1943

434-2163

zhaoxb@nmciq.gov.cn

Xinjiang Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau of the People’s Republic of China

No 116 North Nanhu Road Urumqi City Xinjiang 830063

(86-991)

464-0057

464-0050

xjciq_jw@xjciq.gov.cn

(NZ) New Zealand

Ministry for Primary Industries

P.O. Box 2526, Wellington 6140

(64-4)

830 1574

894 0300

 

(RS) Serbia

Institut za ratarstvo i povrtarstvo/

Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops

21000 Novi Sad Maksima Gorkog 30.

(381-21)

780 365

Operator:

4898 100

780 198

institut@ifvcns.ns.ac.rs

(UA) Ukraine

Productional-Technical Centre (PTZ)

Ukrhmel

Hlebnaja 27262028 Zhitomir

(380)

37 21 11

36 73 31

 

(GB) United Kingdom (1)

Rural Payments Agency (RPA)

Lancaster House, Hampshire Court, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE4 7YH

United Kingdom

(44)

3300 416 500

-

hops.exports@rpa.gov.uk

(US) United States

Washington Department of Agriculture

State Chemical and Hop Lab

21 N. 1st Ave. Suite 106 Yakima, WA 98902

(1-509)

225 76 26

454 76 99

 

Idaho Department of Agriculture

Division of Plant Industries

Hop Inspection Lab

2270 Old Penitentiary Road P.O. Box 790 Boise, ID 83701

(1-208)

332 86 20

334 22 83

 

Oregon Department of Agriculture

Commodity Inspection Division

635 Capital Street NE Salem, OR 97310-2532

(1-503)

986 46 20

986 47 37

 

California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA-CAC)

Division of Inspection Services

Analytical Chemistry Laboratory

3292 Meadowview Road Sacramento, CA 95832

(1-916)

445 00 29 or 262 14 34

262 15 72

 

USDA, GIPSA, FGIS

1100 NW Naito Parkway Portland, OR 97209-2818

(1-503)

326 78 87

326 78 96

 

USDA, GIPSA, TSD, Tech Service Division, Technical Testing Laboratory

10383 Nth Ambassador Drive Kansas City, MO 64153-1394

(1-816)

891 04 01

891 04 78

 

(ZA) South Africa

CSIR Food Science and Technology

PO Box 3950001 Pretoria

(27-12)

841 31 72

841 35 94

 

(ZW) Zimbabwe

Standards Association of Zimbabwe (SAZ)

Northend Close, Northridge Park Borrowdale, P.O. Box 2259 Harare

(263-4)

88 20 17, 88 20 21, 88 55 11

88 20 20

info@saz.org.zw

saz.org.zw

(1)   

In accordance with the Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community, and in particular Article 5(4) of the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland in conjunction with Annex 2 to that Protocol, for the purposes of this Annex references to the United Kingdom do not include Northern Ireland.

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ANNEX II

ATTESTATION OF EQUIVALENCE

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ANNEX III

EXTRACT OF ATTESTATION

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ANNEX IV

RULES GOVERNING THE FORMS REFERRED TO IN ARTICLES 4 AND 6

I.   PAPER

The paper to be used is a white paper weighing at least 40 g/m2.

II.   SIZE

The size is: 210 × 297 mm.

III.   LANGUAGES

A. The attestation of equivalence must be printed in one of the official languages of the Community; it can also be printed in the official language or one of the official languages of the issuing country.

B. The extract of the attestation of equivalence must be printed in one of the official languages of the Community designated by the competent authorities of the issuing Member State

IV.   COMPLETION OF THE FORMS

A. The forms shall be completed by typewriter or by hand; in the latter case, they shall be completed legibly in ink and in printed characters.

B. Each form is individualised by a number given by the issuing authority, this number being the same for the original and its two copies.

C. In the case of the attestation of equivalence and its extracts:

1. 

Section 5 shall not be completed for hop products made from blends of hops;

2. 

Sections 7 and 8 shall be completed for all products made from hops;

3. 

the description of the products (Section 9) shall be one of the following:

(a) 

‘unprepared hops’: i.e. hops which have only undergone preliminary drying and packaging,

(b) 

‘prepared hops’: i.e. hops which have undergone final drying and packaging,

(c) 

‘hop powder’ (which shall include hop pellets and enriched hop powder),

(d) 

‘isomerised hop extract’: i.e. an extract in which the alpha acids have been almost totally isomerised,

(e) 

‘extract of hops’: i.e. other extracts than isomerised extract of hops,

(f) 

‘mixed hop products’: i.e. a mixture of the products referred to in points (c), (d) and (e) above, excluding hops;

4. 

the description ‘unprepared hops’ or ‘prepared hops’ shall be followed by the word ‘seedless’ if the seed content is less than 2 % of the weight of the hops, and by the word ‘seeded’ in other cases;

5. 

in cases where products made from hops are obtained from hops of different varieties and/or different places of production, these different varieties and/or places of production shall be stated in Section 9, followed by the percentage by weight of each variety from each production area making up the blend.




ANNEX V



Repealed Regulations with list of their successive amendments

Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3076/78

(OJ L 367, 28.12.1978, p. 17)

 

Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1465/79

(OJ L 177, 14.7.1979, p. 35)

Article 2 only concerning the references to Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 3076/78

Commission Regulation (EEC) No 4060/88

(OJ L 356, 24.12.1988, p. 42)

Article 1 only

Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2264/91

(OJ L 208, 30.7.1991, p. 20)

 

Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2940/92

(OJ L 294, 10.10.1992, p. 8)

 

Commission Regulation (EEC) No 717/93

(OJ L 74, 27.3.1993, p. 45)

 

Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2918/93

(OJ L 264, 23.10.1993, p. 37)

 

Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3077/78

(OJ L 367, 28.12.1978, p. 28)

 

Commission Regulation (EEC) No 673/79

(OJ L 85, 5.4.1979, p. 25)

 

Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1105/79

(OJ L 138, 6.6.1979, p. 9)

 

Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1466/79

(OJ L 177, 14.7.1979, p. 37)

 

Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3042/79

(OJ L 343, 31.12.1979, p. 5)

 

Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3093/81

(OJ L 310, 30.10.1981, p. 17)

 

Commission Regulation (EEC) No 541/85

(OJ L 62, 1.3.1985, p. 57)

 

Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3261/85

(OJ L 311, 22.11.1985, p. 20)

 

Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3589/85

(OJ L 343, 20.12.1985, p. 19)

Article 1(2)

Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1835/87

(OJ L 174, 1.7.1987, p. 14)

 

Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3975/88

(OJ L 351, 21.12.1988, p. 23)

 

Commission Regulation (EEC) No 4060/88

(OJ L 356, 24.12.1988, p. 42)

Article 2 only

Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2835/90

(OJ L 268, 29.9.1990, p. 88)

 

Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2238/91

(OJ L 204, 27.7.1991, p. 13)

 

Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2915/93

(OJ L 264, 23.10.1993, p. 29)

 

Commission Regulation (EC) No 812/94

(OJ L 94, 13.4.1994, p. 4)

 

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1757/94

(OJ L 183, 19.7.1994, p. 11)

 

Commission Regulation (EC) No 201/95

(OJ L 24, 1.2.1995, p. 121)

 

Commission Regulation (EC) No 972/95

(OJ L 97, 29.4.1995, p. 62)

 

Commission Regulation (EC) No 2132/95

(OJ L 214, 8.9.1995, p. 7)

 

Commission Regulation (EC) No 539/98

(OJ L 70, 10.3.1998, p. 3)

 

Commission Regulation (EC) No 81/2005

(OJ L 16, 20.1.2005, p. 52)

 

Commission Regulation (EC) No 495/2007

(OJ L 117, 5.5.2007, p. 6)

 




ANNEX VI



Correlation Table

Regulation (EEC) No 3076/78

Regulation (EEC) No 3077/78

This Regulation

Article 1(1) and (2)

 

Article 1(1) and (2)

Article 1(3)

 

Article 2

 

Article 1, first sentence

Article 3, first paragraph

 

Article 1, second sentence

Article 3, second paragraph

Article 2

 

Article 4

Article 3(1), introductory sentence

 

Article 5(1), introductory sentence

Article 3(1), first to fourth indents

 

Article 5(1), points (a) to (d)

Article 3(2)

 

Article 5(2)

Article 4

 

Article 5(1), first sentence

 

Article 6(1), first subparagraph

Article 5(1), second sentence

 

Article 6(1), second subparagraph

Article 5(1), third sentence

 

Article 6(1), third subparagraph

Article 5(2), first sentence

 

Article 6(2), first sentence

Article 5(2), second sentence

 

Article 6(2), second sentence

Article 6

 

Article 7

Article 7, first paragraph, except last five words

 

Article 8, first paragraph

Article 7, last five words of first paragraph and point 1

 

Article 8, second paragraph, introductory words

Article 7, point 1(a), introductory words

 

Article 8, second paragraph point (a), introductory words

Article 7, point 1(a), first indent

 

Article 8, second paragraph, point (a)(i)

Article 7, point 1(a), second indent

 

Article 8, second paragraph, point (a)(ii)

Article 7, point 1(a), third indent

 

Article 8, second paragraph, point (a)(iii)

Article 7, point 1(a), fourth indent

 

Article 8, second paragraph, point (a)(iv)

Article 7, point 1(a), fifth indent

 

Article 8, second paragraph, point (a)(v)

Article 7, point 1(a), sixth indent

 

Article 8, second paragraph, point (a)(vi)

Article 7, point 1(a), seventh indent

 

Article 8, second paragraph, point (a)(vii)

Article 7, point 1(b)

 

Article 8, second paragraph, point (b)

Article 7(2)

 

Article 7a, first paragraph, first sentence

 

Article 9(1)

Article 7a, first paragraph, second sentence

 

Article 9(2)

Article 7a, second paragraph

 

Article 9(3)

Article 7a, third paragraph, first sentence

 

Article 9(4), first subparagraph

Article 7a, third paragraph, second sentence

 

Article 9(4), second subparagraph

Article 8

 

Article 10

Article 9

 

Article 10

 

Article 11

Article 12

 

Annex

Annex I

Annex I

 

Annex II

Annex II

 

Annex III

Annex III

 

Annex IV

 

Annex IV

Annex V

Annex VI



( 1 ) Commission Regulation (EC) No 792/2009 of 31 August 2009 laying down detailed rules for the Member States' notification to the Commission of information and documents in implementation of the common organisation of the markets, the direct payments' regime, the promotion of agricultural products and the regimes applicable to the outermost regions and the smaller Aegean islands (OJ L 228, 1.9.2009, p. 3).

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