CELEX: 31964D0018
Language: en
Date: 1963-12-19 00:00:00
Title: 64/18/EEC: Commission Decision of 19 December 1963 setting up an Advisory Committee on Social Questions affecting Farmers

88                                  Official Journal of the European Communities
10.1.64                      OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN ■ COMMUNITIES                                          25/64
                                               COMMISSION DECISION
                                                   of 19 December 1963
                      setting up an Advisory Committee on Social Questions Affecting Farmers
                                                       ( 64/ 18 /EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC                            social questions affecting agricultural employers and
COMMUNITIES ,                                                     paid agricultural workers as the two sides of the
                                                                  industry    should    be    discussed  within   a   joint
Whereas under point V of its final resolution, the                 Committee set up by the Commission Decision of 17
Agricultural Conference of Member States which met                May 1963 1 and that social questions affecting farmers
at Stresa from 3 July to 12 July 1958 noted with                   and members of their families working on the farm
satisfaction 'the intention expressed by the                      can more suitably be discussed within a Committee
Commission     to   maintain     close   and   continuous          set up specially for that purpose on which seats
co-operation    with . . .    trade    organisations,    in       would be apportioned differently, the two
particular for the implementation           of the tasks           Committees being required to consider questions
provided for in this resolution';                                  both in themselves and in relation to their effect on
                                                                   the agricultural population as a whole;
Whereas under point 4 of its Opinion of 6 May 1960
the Economic and Social Committee requested the                    Whereas the various representative bodies in the
Commission to       ensure the      active   and regular           agricultural industry and those of rural families have
participation of interested trade organisations in the             formed organisations at Community level;
formulation and implementation of the common
agricultural policy as regards its theory and practice,
and in particular of agricultural social policy :'                HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS :
Whereas it is necessary that the Commission obtain                                         Article 1
the views of the various sections of the industry on
social questions arising in agriculture and whereas all            1.    There shall be attached to the Commission an
sections directly affected by those questions should               Advisory Committee on Social Questions Affecting
have the possibility of participating in the                       Farmers (hereinafter called the 'Committee').
formulation of opinions requested by the
Commission ;                                                      2 . Farmers, paid agricultural workers and rural
                                                                   families shall be represented on the Committee.
Whereas the Advisory Conference on Social Aspects
of the Common Agricultural Policy, organised by the
Commission in Rome from 28 September to 4                                                  Article 2
October 1961 , adopted the conclusions proposed by
its Working Parties and in particular those of
                                                                   The Committee may be consulted by the Commission
Working Party II requesting the Commission to refer
                                                                   on any social question affecting farmers and members
'social questions arising in agriculture to an Advisory
Committee consisting of equal numbers of                           of their families working on the farm, all such
                                                                   questions being considered both in themselves and in
representatives of organisations set up at European
level by agricultural employers and paid agricultural              relation to their effect on the agricultural population
                                                                   as a whole.
workers '   and   to   ' discuss   with    the  interested
organsiations the work to be done by such                         The Chairman of the Committee may, in particular at
Committee';                                                       the request of at least five members             of the
Whereas the outcome of this discsiision between the
Commission and the trade organisations was that                   1 OJ No 80, 29.5.1963 , p. 1534/63 .
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Committee,      indicate   to    the  Commission      the                               Article 6
 desirability of consulting the Committee on any
 matter within the latter's competence but on which              1.   The Committee shall be convened by the
 its opinion has not been sought.                               Commission      and    shall   meet     at  Commission
                                                                headquarters .
                         Article 3
                                                                2 . Representatives of the Commission departments
                                                                concerned shall take part in meetings of the
1.     The Committee shall consist of twenty-three               Committee .
 members .
2.     Seats on the Committee shall be apportioned as                                   Article 7
follows :
                                                                1 . Every year the Committee shall, by a two-thirds
— seventeen to farmers' representatives ;                       majority of members present, elect a Chairman and
— five to representatives of paid agricultural                  Vice-Chairman .
     workers ;
— one to a representative of rural families .                   2. Secretarial services shall be provided for the
                                                                Committee by the Commission .
                         Article 4
                                                                                        Article 8
 1 . Members of the Committee shall be appointed
                                                                The Committee shall discuss matters on which the
by the Commission on proposals from the following
organisations set up at Community level :                       Commission has requested an opinion. No vote shall
                                                                be taken .
Committee of Agricultural Organisations in the                  The views expressed by each of the groups
European Economic Community (COPA), Working                     represented shall be included in a report of the
Party of the European Federation of Agricultural                proceedings forwarded to the Commission.
Workers of the European TU Secretariat of the
International Confederation of Free Trade Unions                In the event of unanimous agreement being reached
(IFCTU), Working Party on 'Agriculture and Food'                in the Committee on the opinion to be given, the
of the International Federation of Christian Trade              Committee shall formulate joint conclusions and
Unions (IFCTU), European Secretariat of the                     attach them to the report.
International Union of Family Organisations, 'Rural
Families' Section .
                                                                                      • Article 9
2.     The term of office for a Committee member
                                                                Without prejudice to the provisions of Article 214 of
shall be three years. His appointment may be                    the Treaty, where the Commission informs them that
renewed. The duties performed shall be                          the opinion requested is on a matter of a confidential
u n remunerated .
                                                                nature, persons attending meetings of the Committee
                                                                shall not disclose information which has come to
3.     The list of members shall be published by the            their knowledge through the work of the Committee.
Commission for information purposes in the Official
Journal of the European Communities.                            In such cases, only Committee members and the
                                                                representatives of the Commission departments shall
                                                                be present at the meetings.
                         Article 5
At the request of any of the groups represented, the                                   Article 10
Chairman may invite a representative of the central
body of one of the organsiations represented to be              After hearing the Committee, the Commission may
present at meetings. He may likewise request any                amend this Decision in the light of. experience.
person with special qualifications in a subject on the
agenda to take part in an expert capacity in meetings           Done at Brussels, 19 December 1963 .
of the Committee.
                                                                                                  For the Commission
Experts shall be present only at the discussion of
                                                                                                     The President
those questions on account of which they were
invited .                                                                                         Walter HALLSTEIN