Council Regulation (EC) No 1952/2005 (repealed)Show full title

CHAPTER V GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article 12

Save as otherwise provided for in this Regulation, Articles 87, 88 and 89 of the Treaty shall apply to production of and trade in the products referred to in Article 1(1) of this Regulation.

Article 13

In cases where there is a danger of creating surpluses or of a disturbance in the supply structure of the market, the Council, acting by a qualified majority on a proposal from the Commission, may take appropriate measures to prevent market imbalance. Such measures may, for instance, take the form of action affecting:

(a)

the production potential;

(b)

the volume of supply;

(c)

the marketing conditions.

Article 14

1. Any contract to supply hops produced within the Community concluded between a producer or an association of producers and a buyer shall be registered by the bodies designated for that purpose by each producer Member State concerned.

2. Contracts relating to the supply of specific quantities at agreed prices for a period covering one or more harvests and concluded before 1 August of the year of the first harvest concerned shall be known as ‘contracts concluded in advance’. They shall be registered separately.

3. The data on which registration is based may be used only for the purposes of this Regulation.

Article 15

The Member States and the Commission shall send each other such information as is necessary for the implementation of this Regulation.

Article 16

1. The Commission shall be assisted by a Management Committee for Hops (hereinafter the Committee).

2. Where reference is made to this paragraph, Articles 4 and 7 of Decision 1999/468/EC shall apply.

The period laid down in Article 4(3) of Decision 1999/468/EC shall be set at one month.

3. The Committee shall adopt its rules of procedure.

Article 17

The rules for applying this Regulation shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 16(2), in particular those concerning:

• 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.