Article 7

Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 1299/2007 is replaced by the following:

‘Article 5

1.

The producing Member States shall notify the Commission by 31 January each year of a list of the recognized producer groups for hops in their Member State. The notification shall specify for each group:

(a)

the name of the group,

(b)

the legal address,

(c)

the date of recognition,

(d)

number of members, and

(e)

the area of hops cultivated by the members of the group in the year preceding the notification.

2.

The notification to the Commission referred to in paragraph 1 shall be made in accordance with Commission Regulation (EC) No 792/2009^f1.

3.

The list of recognized producer groups containing the names and the addresses of the groups shall be made available to the Member States and to the public by every appropriate means via the information systems put in place by the Commission, including publication on the Internet.’