Commission Regulation (EC) No 81/2005
of 19 January 2005
amending Regulation (EEC) No 3077/78 on the equivalence with Community certificates of attestations accompanying hops imported from non-member countries

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1696/71 of 26 July 1971 on the common organisation of the market in hops, and in particular Article 5(2) thereof,
OJ L 175, 4.8.1971, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2320/2003 (OJ L 345, 31.12.2003, p. 18).
Whereas:
(1) Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3077/78 lays down for non-member countries the agencies which are authorised to issue the attestations accompanying hop products imported from non-member countries recognised as equivalent to the certificate laid down in Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 1696/71.
OJ L 367, 28.12.1978, p. 28. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 539/98 (OJ L 70, 10.3.1998, p. 3).
(2) Following the accession of the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia to the European Union, the agencies of these new Member States should no longer appear on the list in the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 3077/78.
(3) Regulation (EEC) No 3077/78 should therefore be amended accordingly.
(4) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Hops,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1 The Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 3077/78 is hereby replaced by the text in the Annex to this Regulation.
Article 2 This Regulation shall enter into force on the third 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.
Done at Brussels, 19 January 2005.
For the Commission
Mariann Fischer Boel
Member of the Commission
ANNEX

ORGANISATIONS AUTHORISED TO ISSUE ATTESTATIONS IN RESPECT OF
Hop cones	CN code: ex 1210
Hop powders	CN code: ex 1210
Saps and extracts of hops	CN code: 1302 13 00
Country of origin	Organisations authorised	Address	Code	Telephone	Fax
Australia	Quarantine and Quality Assurance Branch Department of Primary Industry and Fisheries	GPO Box 192B Hobart TAS 7001	+.61.02.	33-8011	34-6785
	Ovens Research Station Department of Agriculture	PO Box 235 Myrtleford, Victoria 3737	+.61.57.	51-1311	51-1702
Bulgaria	Institute of Brewing and Hop Production	Gorubljane Sofia 1738	+.359.2.	75-4153	75-6194
Canada	Plant Protection Division Animal and Plant Health Directorate Food Production and Inspection Branch Agriculture and Agri-food Canada	Floor 2, West Wing 59, Camelot Drive Napean, Ontario, Canada K1A OY9	+.1.613	952-8000	991-5612
People’s Republic of China	China Tianijn Import & Export Commodity Inspection Bureau	33, Youyi Road Tianijn 300201	+.86.22.	432-4143	832-0842
	China Xinjiang Import & Export Commodity Inspection Bureau	Fu 6, Beijing Nan Lu Wulumuqi 830011	+.86.991.	484-2708	484-0050
	China Neimenggu Import & Export Commodity Inspection Bureau	Zhaowuda Road Huhehaote 010010	+.86.471.	45-1156	45-1163
New Zealand	Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries	PO Box 2526 Wellington	+.64.4.	472-0367	474-424 472-9071
	Gawthorn Institute	Private Bag Nelson	+.64.3.	548-2319	546-9464
Romania	Cluj-Napoca University of Agricultural Sciences	Strada Manastur no. 3 Cluj-Napoca	+.406.	419-8792	419-3792
	Bucharest Institute of Food Chemistry	Strada Garlei no. 1 Sector 1 Bucharest	+.40.1.	230-5090	230-0311
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro)	Institut za Ratarstvo I Povrtlarstvo/Zavod sa Hmelj	Yu-21470 Backi Petrovac	+.381.21.	780-365	621-212
South Africa	CSIR Food Science and Technology	PO Box 395 0001 Pretoria	+.27.12	841-3172	841-3594
Switzerland	Versuchsstation Schweizerischer Brauereien (VSB)	Engimattstrasse 11 8059 Zürich	+.41.1.	201-4244	201-4249
Ukraine	Productional-Technical Centre (PTZ) Ukrhmel	Hlebnaja 27 262028 Zhitomie	+.7.0412	37-2111	36-7331
United States of America	Washington Department of Agriculture State Chemical and Hop Lab	2017 South First Street Yakima, WA	+.1.509.	575-2759	454-7699
	Idaho Department of Agriculture Hop Inspection Lab	2270 Old Penitentiary Road PO Box 790 Boise, ID 83701	+.1.208	334-2623	334-2170
	Oregon Department of Agriculture Commodity Inspection Division	635 Capital Street NE Salem, OR 97310	+.1.503.	986-4620	373-1479
	USDA, GIPSA, FGIS	1100 NW Front Avenue PO Box 3837 Portland, OR 97208	+.1.503.	231-2056	231-6199
	USDA, GIPSA, FGIS Commodity Testing Laboratory	Building 306, Room 209 BARC-East Beltsville, MD 20705-2325	+.1.301	504-9328	504-9200
Zimbabwe	Standards Association of Zimbabwe	Northern Close Northbridge Park PO Box 2259-Borrowdale Harare	+.263.4.	88-2021/2	88-2020