17. COMMON ORGANISATION OF THE MARKET
IN HOPS (9591/99)
Letter from Lord Tordoff, Chairman of
the Committee, to Lord Donoughue, Parliamentary Secretary Ministry
of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
I am writing to let you know that Sub-Committee
D considered and cleared this proposal at their meeting on 21
July.
The Sub-Committee agreed that most of the proposal
seems sensible, but shared the concern hinted at in paragraph
9 of your memorandum that the removal of the requirement on the
Commission to submit an annual report to the Council would reduce
the Council's ability to monitor the regime effectively. I am
therefore writing to support and reinforce your opposition to
the proposal to remove Article 11 from Regulation 1696/71, and
would be grateful if you could provide an update when negotiations
on the proposals begin.
22 July 1999
Letter from the Rt Hon Joyce Quin MP,
Minister of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food,
to Lord Tordoff, Chairman of the Committee
Thank you for your letter of 22 July to Bernard
Donoughue informing him of the views of your Committee. You acknowledged
the point, raised in paragraph 9 of Explanatory Memorandum 9591/99
of 5 July 1999 concerning hops, that following the deletion of
Article 11 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1696/71 the Council
would have no evidence on which to monitor the effectiveness of
the above regime.
The latest amended proposal includes a new Article
1(2) to replace the existing Article 12(6) of Council Regulation
(EEC) No 1696/71. The text makes any amendment to the aid rate
subject to the consideration of the market situation. The market
situation would be obtained by the continued requirement of Member
States to supply, on an annual basis, harvest data as required
by Commission Regulation 776/73, which is made under Article 18
of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1696/71.
We are now content that the addition of Article
1(2) to the proposal amending Council Regulation (EEC) No 1696/71
provides a pragmatic approach to the problem previously identified.
Your Committee will also wish to note that the
amending regulation, if adopted, will apply from 1 January 2000
in its entirety. Previously, the deletion of Article 11 was to
take effect on the seventh day following the publication of the
Regulation in the Official Journal, whilst other aspects of the
amendment were to have applied from 1 January 2000.
17 January 2000
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