Council Regulation (EEC) No 1612/89 of 29 May 1989 introducing provisional measures to improve the conditions under which forestry products are processed and marketed

COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 1612/89 of 29 May 1989 introducing provisional measures to improve the conditions under which forestry products are processed and marketed
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
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Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Communitiy, and in particular Articles 42, 43 and 235 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission (1),
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament (2),
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social Committee (3),
Whereas Community efforts to decrease, through the creation and development of alternative forestry activities for farmers, the output of products which are in surplus can produce the desired effects only if they are accompanied by measures to promote  certain activities involving the primary processing and the marketing of forestry products;
Whereas the eighth indent of Article 2 (2) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 4256/88 of 19 December 1988 laying down provisions for implementing Regulation (EEC) No 2052/88 as regards the EAGGF Guidance Section (4) provides that the contribution by the  EAGGF Guidance Section to measures to speed up the adjustment of agricultural structures with a view to the reform of the common agricultural policy may concern measures to improve the marketing and processing of agricultural and forestry products;
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 355/77 (5), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1760/87 (6), at present concerns only the improvement of the conditions under which agricultural and fishery products are processed and marketed;
Whereas Article 10 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 4256/88 requires Regulation (EEC) No 355/77 to be adapted by the
Council with a view to implementing the common measure referred to in the latter Regulation; whereas such adaptation should take place before 31 December 1989; whereas pending that adaptation provisional measures should be adopted to render Article 10  (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 4256/88 effective,