ANNEX IV U.K.RULES GOVERNING THE FORMS REFERRED TO IN ARTICLES 4 AND 6

IV. COMPLETION OF THE FORMS U.K.

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. U.K.

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. U.K.

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

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.