Regulation 2 Amendment of Regulation 1299/2007

(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.”.