PART 2Amendments to legislation relating to the Common Market Organisation

Amendment of Regulation 1299/20072

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.”.