‘marketing of agricultural products’ means holding or display with a view to sale, offering for sale, delivery or any other manner of placing on the market, except the first sale by a primary producer to resellers or processors and any activity preparing a product for such first sale; a sale by a primary producer to final consumers shall be considered as marketing if it takes place in separate premises reserved for that purpose.

“marketing of agricultural products” means holding or display with a view to sale, offering for sale, delivery or any other manner of placing on the market, except the first sale by a primary producer to resellers or processors and any activity preparing a product for such first sale; a sale by a primary producer to final consumers shall be considered as marketing if it takes place in separate premises reserved for that purpose.

An estimated 115 million hectares or 12% of Europe’s total land area are subject to water erosion, and a further 42 million hectares by wind erosion.

the waste facility is suitably located, taking into account in particular Community or national obligations relating to protected areas, and geological, hydrological, hydrogeological, seismic and geotechnical factors, and is designed so as to meet the necessary conditions for, in the short and long‐term perspectives, preventing pollution of the soil, air, groundwater or surface water, taking into account especially Directives 76/464/EEC , 80/68/EEC and 2000/60/EC, and ensuring efficient collection of contaminated water and leachate as and when required under the permit, and reducing erosion ...[+++] caused by water or wind as far as it is technically possible and economically viable.

Desertification results from changes in climate, the deterioration of vegetation due to over exploitation, over grazing, deforestation and burning, through wind and water erosion due to poor cultivation practices (1410 ) Desertification is more serious in Africa and Asia, but is also impacting our prairies.

The Commission further concluded, on the basis of the following facts, that the Community industry had suffered material injury: - imports of audio cassettes from Japan, Korea and Hong Kong have increased at a more rapid rate than the rate of global consumption, from 154 million units in 1985 to 212 million units in 1988 (some US$ 450 million), namely by 38%; - the market share of the exporters found to have practised dumping increased by 10% while the market share of the total dumped imports increased by 3%; - the complainant producers' selling prices in the Community suffered a significant erosion between 1985 and 1988; - Community ...[+++]producers were unable to increase significantly their production between 1985 and 1988 and their sales fell by 8.5% over this period, despite an increase in total consumption of 30%; - between 1985 and 1988 return on sales of the Community industry showed a constant negative trend, which has been improved in 1988 mainly because of the withdrawal of the loss-making models; - these rationalization measures involved a loss of employment in the Community of some 23% of the audio cassettes workforce between 1985 and 1988.