L 157/104 Official Journal of the European Communities 30. 5. 98 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1136/98 of 29 May 1998 amending Regulation (EC) No 1350/72 on rules for granting aid to hop producers THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1696/71 of 26 July 1971 on the common organisation of the market in hops (*), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1554/97 (3, and in particular Article 13(4) thereof, Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1098/98 of 25 May 1998 introducing special temporary measures for hops (°), and in particular Article 3 thereof, Whereas Regulation (EC) No 1098/98 provides for compensation to be granted for areas put into temporary rest and/or grubbed up; whereas those areas should be declared on the same basis as planted areas; whereas for the 1998 harvest the data have to be communicated not later than 30 June 1998; whereas the new provisions should therefore be incorporated into Commission Regu- lation (EEC) No 1350/72 (*), as last amended by Regula- tion (EC) No 317/98 (); Whereas Article 1(1) of Regulation (EEC) No 1350/72 lays down that areas planted must be declared not later than 31 May of the year of harvest; whereas that poses problems in the United Kingdom because of develop- ments in production methods whereby propagated plants can be harvested within the same year as planting (for the first time); whereas such planting will not be completed in May but in June; whereas the harvesting of propagated hops by this method is expected to be limited to a small percentage of the total hop area in the United Kingdom; whereas discrimination against the producers concerned in the form of loss of aid should nevertheless be avoided; whereas to that end provsion should be made for a dero- gation for the United Kingdom by postponing the date for declaring areas until 30 June of the year of harvest; () () () () 0) OJ L 175, 4. 8. 1971, p. 1. OJ L 208, 2. 8. 1997, p. 1. See page 7 of this Official Journal. OJ L 148, 30. 6. 1972, p. 11. OJ L 33, 7. 2. 1998, p. 10. 5 Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Hops, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Article 1 Regulation (EEC) No 1350/72 is amended as follows: 1. in Article 1: — paragraph 1 is replaced by the following: ‘1. All hop producers shall declare the areas which they have planted and the areas which are the subject of special temporary measures for resting and/or grubbing-up provided for in Regula- tion (EC) No 1098/98 not later than 31 May of the year of harvest or, in the case of the United Kingdom, not later than 30 June 1998’ — paragraph 2 is replaced by the following: 2. The declaration shall include at least: (a) the name and address of the person making the declaration; (b) for each variety or experimental strain: — the area planted or subject to special resting and/or grubbing-up measures; — the land-register reference for the area or, if no such reference is available for the area in question, an equivalent official indication and, if necessary, a further indication making it possible to locate the variety or the experimental strain; (c) the name of the recognised hop producers’ group if the person making the declaration belongs to such a group.; 2. Article 2 is replaced by the following: Article 2 1. The application for aid in those Member States that decide to apply temporary resting and/or defin- itive grubbing up for compensation within the