PART 2Amendments to legislation relating to the Common Market Organisation

Amendment of Regulation 1299/2007I12

1

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1299/2007 on the recognition of producer groups for hops is amended as follows.

2

In Article 1—

a

in paragraph 1—

i

for “Article 122 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007” substitute “ Article 152 of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 ”;

ii

for the words from “Member State” to the end substitute “ Secretary of State ”.

b

in paragraph 2, in the first subparagraph—

i

in the words before point (a), for “Member States” substitute “ The Secretary of State ”;

ii

in point (a), for “under national legislation” substitute “ in law ”;

iii

in point (e), for “Community” substitute “ United Kingdom ”;

iv

in point (g), for “the national” substitute “ any ”;

v

in point (i), for “Community” substitute “ United Kingdom ”;

c

in paragraph 4, in point (b), for “them” substitute “ the ”.

3

In Article 2—

a

in paragraph 1, omit the second subparagraph;

b

omit paragraph 2.

4

In Article 4, in paragraphs 1 and 3, for “Member States” substitute “ The Secretary of State ”.

5

In Article 5—

a

omit paragraphs 1 and 2;

b

in paragraph 3—

i

for “The” substitute “ A ”;

ii

for “to the Member States and” substitute “ by the Secretary of State ”;

iii

omit “via the information systems put in place by the Commission”.

6

After Article 7, omit “This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.”.