1. For hops grown by a brewery on their own land or grown on contract for a brewery to be used by the brewery, the brewer shall, by 15 November of each year at the latest, send to the competent certification authority a harvest declaration of the varieties grown, the quantities harvested, the places of production and the areas planted, together with the land register references or an official equivalent thereof.
2. In the case of hops processed under contract on behalf of a brewery, before the hops enter the establishment where they are to be processed, the brewery shall provide the processor and the competent certification authority with a processing document with the following information:
a unique reference number identifying the contract;
the recipient brewery;
the name and address of the processing establishment;
the unique reference number of the certificate of the hops or hop products to be processed and/or, in case of imported hops, the attestation of equivalence provided for in Article 190(2) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 and/or a copy of the harvest declaration of the hops to be processed.
3. The following entries shall be entered by the processor in the processing document after the processing operation:
a description of the processed product;
the weight of the processed product.
4. The processing document referred to in paragraph 2 shall be given a unique reference number, which shall also appear on the packaging. The following additional indication shall be included on the document and on the package: ‘hops/hop products for own use; may not be marketed’.