Consequently, the Assembly recommends that the Committee of Ministers invite governments of member states and governments of other members of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE), the Group of Seven leading industrialised nations (G7),and the Group of Twenty-four industrialised nations (G24) and the Commission of the European Communities :
3.1 to increase, during the forthcoming winter, emergency food aid to certain republics of the Soviet Union and other Central and East European countries in need, and preferably to buy available surplus stocks from the new democracies in Central Europe. Barter trade agreements should also be envisaged ;
3.2 to set up an agency, or entrust an existing organisation with the responsibility of promoting, co-ordinating and controlling food aid, storage and distribution as well as co-ordinating assistance and investments in the agricultural and food sector in Central and East European countries in transition, with a view to reaching maximum efficiency and effectiveness. The agency should be an operational co-ordination instrument for all countries concerned and it should build on existing experiences in this field. It should fully involve the private sector and it should work in close co-operation with such organisations as the Commission of the European Communities, the Council of Europe, the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), as well as the United Nations and its specialised agencies ;
3.3 to organise assistance in improving fundamentally systems of storage and distribution to ensure an adequate flow of food aid and of food supply on a permanent basis by employing all relevant and available know-how ;
3.4 to give priority to and increase assistance and investments for the revitalisation of the food and agricultural sectors (including fisheries and forestry), with special emphasis on production methods and inputs, the processing systems and training. Of particular importance is the involvement of farmers, their organisations and the food and related industries ;
3.5 to press for and assist in the transformation of military production units to consumer goods production and in particular for the production of machinery and equipment for the food and agricultural sectors ;
3.6 to give special emphasis to the creation of viable family farms in land reform programmes and to the needs of rural regions through assistance and investment programmes ;
3.7 to strengthen the work of organisations such as OECD and the Economic Commission for Europe in their assistance to countries of Central and Eastern Europe, and to make sure that the EBRD will have enough funds to respond to priority needs.
