a to pursue the forestry objectives by multiple use management, taking into account the relative importance of different objectives ;
b to review forest policies with regard to the utilisation and expansion of their indigenous resources, as well as to their trade with overseas and overland suppliers ;
c to seek the optimum degree of self-sufficiency in Europe by improving productivity in existing forests through the establishment of long-term programmes designed to put European sylviculture and harvesting on a competitive basis, and to increase the availability of forest products in Europe from indigenous sources ;
d to take steps to avoid losses of wood, and to reduce wastage in sylviculture, harvesting and processing, by increasing recycling of waste paper, use of residues and more rational use of forest products ;
e to seek legislative ways and means to prevent undue fragmentation of private forests ;
f to encourage technological and economic co-operation between forest owners and concentration of small and medium-sized holdings, by providing free technical and commercial advice to improve their management and marketing ;
g to encourage the establishment of owners' and/or forest management associations, particularly to promote the mechanisation of sylviculture and harvesting operations ;
h to provide aid to forest owners by direct and/or indirect subsidies, especially in certain regions and for special purposes ;
i to ensure that the purposes of nature conservation as well as access to and maintenance of recreational opportunity are increasingly served in both public and private forestry enterprise ;
j to consider the ecological functions of forests more systematically, first as water regulators and reservoirs, but also as windbreaks and, in mountain regions, as a protection against landslides and avalanches ;
k to exploit with prudence the potentialities of forests as an energy resource through timber combustion and other uses of wood.
