1 21, 12. 88 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 351/23 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3975/88 of 20 December 1988 amending Regulation (EEC) No 3077/78 on the equivalence with Community certificates of attestations accompanying hops imported from non-member countries THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty estabhshmg the European Economlc Commumty, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1696/71 on the common organization of the market in hops ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3998/87 (3, and in particular Article § (2) thereof, 4 Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3077/78 (3), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1835/87 (¥, recognizes the equivalence with . Community certificates of attestations accompanying hops imported from certain third countries and establishes the list of organizations HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : authorized in those countries to 1ssue attestations of equivalence ; ‘ - Whereas since then the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics has undertaken to comply with the requirements laid down for the marketing of hops and, hop products and has authorized a new organization to issue attestations of equivalence; whereas those attestations should accordingly be recognized as equivalent to Community certificates and the products which they cover should be admitted in free circulation ; whereas the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 3077/78 should be supplemented accordingly ; Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Hops, Article 1 The following entries are ﬁereby added to the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 3077/78 for the country of origin, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics : Organizations authorized e . to issue attestations Description CN code L ‘ ‘2. Hopfenanbauinstitut Hop cones, fresh or dried, whether or Leninstr., 289 not ground, powdered or in the form of Zitomir 26 2007, pellets ; lupulin 1210 Union of Soviet , Socialist Republics Saps and extracts of hops 130213 00 Article 2 This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its pubhcatlon in the Official Journal of the European Communities. : This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. Done at Brussels, 20 December 1988. 1) OJ No L 175, 4. 8. 1971, p. 1 % OJ No L 377, 31. 12. 1987, p. 40. % OJ No L 367, 28. 12. 1978, p. 28. 9 OJ No L 174, 1. 7. 1987, p. 14. For the Commission Frans ANDRIESSEN Vice-President