No L 45/46 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 Social Questions affecting Farmers and the Members of their Families (87/85/EEC) Article 2 1. The Committee may be consulted by the Commission Economic Community, Whereas the Advisory Committee on Social Questions affecting Farmers and the Members of their Families was set up by Commission Decision 64/18/EEC (1), replaced by Commission Decision 76/410/EEC (?), as last amended by Decision 83/77/EEC (3); 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 Social Questions affecting Farmers and the Members of their Families 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 rural families on social questions affecting agriculture; Whereas representatives of the various interests directly concerned by the abovementioned questions must have an opportunity to participate in the drafting of the opinions requested by the Commission; Whereas the trade associations concerned and the associations of rural families 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 Social Questions affecting Farmers and the Members of their Families (hereinafter called ‘the Committee’). 2. The Committee shall be composed of representatives of the following interests: farmers, paid agricultural workers and rural families. (') O No 2, 10. 1. 1964, p. 25/64. (2) OJ No L 106, 23 4. 1976, p. 36. (*) OJ NoL 51, 24. 2. 1983, p. 34. on any social questions affecting farmers and members of their families working on the holding, all such questions being considered both in themselves and in relation to their repercussions on the agricultural population as a whole. 2. At the request on one of the interests referred to in Article 1 (2), the Committee may on its own initiative and in regard to a matter within its terms of reference forward opinions and reports to the Commission. Article 3 1.  The Committee shall consist of 32 members. 2. Seats on the Committee shall be apportioned as follows: — 22 to farmers’ representatives, including four to representatives of young farmers, — seven to representatives of paid agricultural workers, — three to representatives of rural families. Article 4 1. Members of the Committee shall be appointed by the Commission on proposals from the following organizations set up at Community level: Committee of Agricultural Organizations in the EEC (COPA), European Federation of Agricultural Workers’ Unions within the Community (EFA), Committee of Family Organizations for the European ' Communities (COFACE). For each seat to be filled, these bodies shall put forward the names of two candidates of different nationality. 2. Thetérm of office for members of the Committee shall be three years. Their appointments may be renewed. Members shall not be remunerated for their services. After the expiry of the three years members of the Committee shall remain in office until they are replaced or until their appointments are renewed. -