94/117/EC: Council Decision of 21 February 1994 laying down the minimum requirements as regards structure and equipment to be met by certain small establishments ensuring the distribution of fishery products in Greece

COUNCIL DECISION of 21 February 1994 laying down the minimum requirements as regards structure and equipment to be met by certain small establishments ensuring the distribution of fishery products in Greece (94/117/EC)
THE COUNCIL OF THE  EUROPEAN UNION
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Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Directive 91/493/EEC of 22 July 1991 laying down the health conditions for the production and the placing on the market of fishery products (1), and in particular Article 14 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Whereas some islands and certain coastal regions in Greece may, by reason of their isolation or remoteness, be subject to specific constraints as far as their supply is concerned;
Whereas, on these islands and in these regions, there are small smoking and salting establishments for fishery products which play a vital role in supplying the local market of the place in which they are situated;
Whereas it is necessary, in order to prevent these small establishments from disappearing, that less stringent minimum structural and equipment requirements be applied to them than those laid down in Directive 91/493/EEC, until those specific  constraints disappear from those islands and regions of Greece;
Whereas, in order to avoid distortions of competition within the Community, to these minimum requirements must be added limits as regards the establishments' production volume and the marketing area of the products in question;
Whereas the fishery products processed by these small establishments are to be reserved for the supply of the local market and are not to bear the identification mark referred to in Article 3 (1) (f) of Directive 91/493/EEC,