
Article 1 
Only contracts for hops harvested in the Member State concerned shall be registered under Article 14(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1952/2005.
Article 2 
The body designated by the Member State in accordance with Article 14(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1952/2005 shall register all deliveries made, distinguishing between contracts concluded in advance, referred to in Article 14(2) of that Regulation, and other contracts.
Article 3 
Contracts concluded in advance shall be concluded in writing. A copy of each contract concluded in advance shall be communicated by the producer or recognised producer group to the body referred to in Article 2 within one month of its conclusion.
Article 4 
The registration of contracts other than those concluded in advance shall be on the basis of a duplicate of the receipted invoice to be sent by the seller to the body referred to in Article 2.
The seller may send such duplicates either as and when deliveries are made or all together, but must in any event send them by 15 March.
Article 5 
For each harvest, the Member States shall send the Commission the information detailed in the Annex by electronic means by 15 April of the year following the harvest concerned.
Article 6 
Regulations (EEC) Nos 776/73 and 1375/75 are hereby repealed.
Article 7 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 18 October 2006.
For the Commission
Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission
ANNEX
HOPS: Contracts concluded in advance and harvest statement 

 Harvest:
 Member State:


 Bitter hops Aromatic hops Total
(1) (2) (3) (4)
 1. QUANTITY OF HOPS COVERED BY CONTRACTS CONCLUDED IN ADVANCE FOR THE HARVEST CONCERNED (tonnes)
   
2. DELIVERIES OF HOPS:
2.1. Under contracts concluded in advance
 2.1.1. Quantity delivered (tonnes)
   
 2.1.2. Average price (EUR/kg)
   
2.2. Under other contracts
 2.2.1. Quantity delivered (tonnes)
   
 2.2.2. Average price (EUR/kg)
   
 2.3. Total quantity delivered (tonnes)
   
 3. QUANTITY OF HOPS REMAINING UNSOLD (tonnes)
   
4. ALPHA ACID:
 4.1. Alpha-acid production (tonnes)
   
 4.2. Average alpha-acid content (%)
   
5. AREA DOWN TO HOPS (hectares):
 5.1. Total area harvested
   
 5.2. Total area newly sown (year of harvest)
   
 6. NUMBER OF FARMERS GROWING HOPS
   
 7. QUANTITY OF HOPS COVERED BY CONTRACTS CONCLUDED IN ADVANCE FOR THE NEXT HARVEST (tonnes)
   


