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.

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

1. 1.

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

2. 2.

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

3. 3.

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

   1. (a)

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

   2. (b)

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

   3. (c)

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

   4. (d)

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

   5. (e)

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

   6. (f)

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

4. 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. 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.