Seal district

Hop seal from Au in the Hallertau

Seal districts are certain areas within the hop growing regions in Germany.

meaning

To carry out the certification procedure for sealing hop in general, the certification body has jurisdiction in whose seal district of the acreage on which the hops produced, is located.

History and legal regulation

In 1538 the Eichstätt prince-bishop awarded the town of Spalt the first German hop seal to document the authenticity of Spalter hops. This certification system was gradually adopted in all of the important growing areas of the German Empire. Increased abuse and forgery of the seal led to the enactment of a provenance law in 1907. In 1929, with the Hop Origin Act, a uniform law was passed for Germany for the first time. It regulated where hops were allowed to be grown and protected the quality of the hops from adulteration by marking growing areas, sealing and sealing. The seal districts were introduced. In 1996 the Hop Law replaced the Hop Origin Law. The European single market for hops has been based on three EU regulations since the 1970s, which are essentially based on the principles of the German Hop Origin Act of 1929. In addition, the Hop Act at federal level and the ordinances for the implementation of the Hop Act at federal state level regulate the certification of the seal hops .

Sealed districts according to growing areas

Hop harvest in gap

Bavaria: Hallertau growing area :

• Abensberg
• Altmannstein
• Au in the Hallertau
• Geisenfeld
• Hersbruck
• Hohenwart
• Langquaid
• Mainburg
• Nandlstadt
• Neustadt an der Donau
• Pfaffenhofen on the Ilm
• Pfeffenhausen
• Rottenburg an der Laaber
• Siegenburg
• Wolnzach

Bavaria: Growing area Spalt:

• Kinding
• gap

Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria: Tettnang growing area:

• Tettnang

Baden-Württemberg: growing area Rottenburg - Herrenberg - Because of the city:

• Seal point in Nagold-Hochdorf

Rhineland-Palatinate: Growing area Rheinpfalz:

• Seal hall in Kapellen-Drusweiler

Rhineland-Palatinate: Bitburg growing area:

• Seal hall in Holsthum

Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia: Elbe-Saale cultivation area:

• for Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia: Wolnzach

Web links

• European Commission: Hops Market Sector Agriculture and Rural Development, as of April 22, 2015
• Heinrich Joh. Barth: 1950–2005: Hop trade - events and trends in the hop market 1950 to today in Germany and the USA

Individual evidence

1. ↑ EU regulation of the council on the common market organization for hops (VO [EEC] No. 1697/71); EU regulation of the commission on the certification of hops (VO [EEC] No. 174/77); EU regulation of the commission on the details of the certification of hops (VO [EEC] No. 890/78)
2. ↑ Hop Origin Act Website of the HVG Hopfenverwertungsgenossenschaft e. G., accessed May 16, 2016
3. ↑ Certification of the hops website of the Hop Growers Association, accessed on May 16, 2016
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Bavarian State Government: Ordinance on the Implementation of the Hops Act (BayHopfDV) of April 29, 1997 (version of July 22, 2014)
5. ↑ Baden-Württemberg: Ordinance of the Ministry of Food and Rural Areas for the Implementation of the Hop Act (HopfenVO) of April 1, 1999, Journal of Laws of 1999, 167
6. ↑ ^{a b c d} European Commission: List of hop certification centers and their code numbers (April 2013), PDF
7. ↑ Rhineland-Palatinate: State Ordinance for the Implementation of the Hops Act in the version of October 16, 2001, BS No. 7821-50
8. ↑ Ordinance of the Saxon State Ministry for the Environment and Agriculture for the implementation of the Hop Act (HopfenDVO) Status: August 1, 2009, Article 3 of the ordinance of July 11, 2009 (SächsGVBl. P. 423. 426)
9. ↑ Thuringian Ordinance for the Implementation of the Hops Act of April 27, 2007. GVBl. No. 4 2007 , issued in Erfurt, May 31, 2007