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United Kingdom

Commission Regulation (EC) No 495/2007

of 4 May 2007

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 (EC) No 1952/2005 of 23 November 2005 concerning the common organisation of the market in hops and repealing Regulations (EEC) No 1696/71, (EEC) No 1037/72, (EEC) No 879/73 and (EEC) No 1981/82^f1, and in particular Article 17 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3077/78^f2 lays down the list of the agencies in third countries which are authorised to issue the attestations accompanying hop products imported from those countries. Those attestations are recognised as equivalent to the certificate laid down in Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 1952/2005.

(2)

Following the accession of Bulgaria and Romania to the European Union, the agencies of those new Member States should no longer appear on the list in the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 3077/78.

(3)

Some of the names and addresses of the agencies listed in the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 3077/78 have changed.

(4)

Regulation (EEC) No 3077/78 should therefore be amended accordingly.

(5)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Hops,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

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Footnotes

f1: OJ L 314, 30.11.2005, p. 1, corrected by OJ L 317, 3.12.2005, p. 29.
f2: OJ L 367, 28.12.1978, p. 28. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 81/2005 (OJ L 16, 20.1.2005, p. 52).