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Commission Regulation (EC) No 1850/2006 of 14 December 2006 laying down detailed rules for the certification of hops and hop products
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1.The certificate shall be issued at the stage of marketing for which the minimum marketing requirements shall apply.
2.In the case of hop cones, the certificate shall include at least the following entries:
(a)the description of the product;
(b)the reference number of the certificate;
(c)the net and/or gross weight;
(d)the hop production area or the place of production as referred to in Article 4(3) (a) of Regulation (EC) No 1952/2005;
(e)the year of harvesting;
(f)the variety;
(g)the mention ‘seeded hops’ or ‘seedless hops’, as appropriate;
(h)at least one of the entries listed in Annex V, applied by the competent certification authority.
3.In the case of products prepared from hops, the certificate shall include, in addition to the entries listed in paragraph 2, the place and date of processing.
4.The reference number of the certificate referred to in paragraph 2(b) shall be made up of codes designating, in accordance with Annex VI, the certification centre, the Member State, the year of harvesting and the relevant consignment.
The reference number shall be the same for all packages in a consignment.
Each package shall bear at least the following entries in one of the Community languages:
the description of the product, including the mentions ‘seeded hops’ or ‘seedless hops’, as appropriate, and ‘prepared hops’ or ‘unprepared hops’, as the case may be;
the variety or varieties;
the reference number of the certificate.
These entries shall appear in legible, indelible characters of uniform size.
In the case of hops from experimental strains in the course of development and produced by a research institute on its own premises or by a producer on behalf of such an institute, entries referred to in Article 16(2)(f) and Article 17(b) may be replaced by a name or number identifying the strain in question.
The entries appearing on each package and the certificate which accompanies the product shall constitute proof of certification.
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