1. In order to stabilise the market and facilitate the marketing of the products in question, the conclusion of contracts between buyers and producers of flax straw and hemp straw should be encouraged and Community standard provisions should be laid down to govern contractual relations between them.
2. The next stage in fibre-production is breaking. The straw is passed between fluted rollers (...) so that the wooden core is broken into fragments (...) the broken straw is then subjected to (...) scutching.
