No L 45/62 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Official Journal of the European Communities - 14. 2. 87 COMMISSION DECISION of 7 January 1987 on the setting-up of an Advisory Committee on Beef and Veal (87/91/EEC) Article 2 1.  The Committee may be consulted by the Commission Economic Community, Whereas the Advisory Committee on Beef and Veal was set up by Commission Decision 64/434/EEC (1), as last amended by Decision 83/77/EEC (2); Whereas, following the accession of new Member States to the Community, the number of seats on the Committee should be increased and they should be reallocated; whereas the procedure for the replacement of members should also be adjusted; Whereas the provisions concerning the Advisory Committee on Beef and Veal have been amended several times and have therefore become difficult to apply; whereas they should therefore be consolidated; Whereas the Commission should seek the views of producers, traders and consumers on matters arising in connection with the operation of the common orgamzatlon of the market in beef and veal; Whereas all the occupations directly involved in the implementation of the market organization in question, and also consumers, must have an opportunity to participate in the drafting of the opinions requested by the Commission; Whereas the trade associations concerned and the consumer groups in the Member States have set up organizations at Community level which are in a position to represent those concerned in all the Member States, HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS: Article 1 1. Thereshall be attached to the Commission an Advisory Committee on Beef and Veal, hereinafter called the ‘Committee’. 2.  The Committee shall be composed of representatives of the following interests: farmers, cooperatives, the " processing and food-manufacturing industries, traders in agricultural produce and foodstuffs, agricultural workers and workers in the processing and food-manufacturing industries and consumers. (1) OJ No 122, 29.7. 1964, p. 2047/64. 2) OJ No L 51,24.2.1983, p. 34. on any problem concerning the operation of Regulations on the common organization of the market in beef and veal and in particular on measures to be adopted by the Commission under those Regulations. 2. The chairman of the Committee may indicate to the Commission the desirability of consulting the Committee on any matter within the latter’s competence on which its opinion has not been sought. He shall do so, in particular, at the request of one of the interests represented. Article 3 1.  The Committee shall consist of 50 members. 2. Seats on the Committee shall be apportioned as follows: — 25 to agricultural producers and cooperatives in the sector, ’ — four to representatives of the meat and animal fat processing industries, — three to representatives of the livestock trade, — three to representatives of the wholesale meat trade, — three to butchers/traders in preserved meats (including one to supermarkets), — six to representatives of agricultural workers and of workers in the processing and food-manufacturing’ industries, — six to consumers’ representatives. “Article 4 1. Members of the Committee shall be appointed by the Commission on proposals from the trade workers’ organizations set up at Community level which are most tepresentative of the interests specified in Article 1 (2) and whose activities come within the scope of the common organization ‘of the market in beef and veal; consumers’ representatives shall be appointed on proposals from the Consumers’ Advisory Committee. Those bodies shall for each seat to be filled put forward the names of two candidates of different nationality.