# Commission Regulation (EC) No 1295/2008 of 18 December 2008 on the importation of hops from third countries (Codified version), Division C: In the case of the attestation of equivalence and its extracts:

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

1..Section 5 shall not be completed for hop products made from blends of hops;
2..Sections 7 and 8 shall be completed for all products made from hops;
3..the description of the products (Section 9) shall be one of the following:
(a)‘unprepared hops’: i.e. hops which have only undergone preliminary drying and packaging,
(b)‘prepared hops’: i.e. hops which have undergone final drying and packaging,
(c)‘hop powder’ (which shall include hop pellets and enriched hop powder),
(d)‘isomerised hop extract’: i.e. an extract in which the alpha acids have been almost totally isomerised,
(e)‘extract of hops’: i.e. other extracts than isomerised extract of hops,
(f)‘mixed hop products’: i.e. a mixture of the products referred to in points (c), (d) and (e) above, excluding hops;
4..the description ‘unprepared hops’ or ‘prepared hops’ shall be followed by the word ‘seedless’ if the seed content is less than 2 % of the weight of the hops, and by the word ‘seeded’ in other cases;
5..in cases where products made from hops are obtained from hops of different varieties and/or different places of production, these different varieties and/or places of production shall be stated in Section 9, followed by the percentage by weight of each variety from each production area making up the blend.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2008/1295/annex/IV/division/IV/division/C (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-1295/annex-IV/division-IV/division-C
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.

