COMMISSION DECISION of 21 April 1976 setting up a Committee on Waste Management (76/431/EEC) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Whereas the Programme of Action of the European Communities on the Environment (1), stresses the need for a Community policy on industrial and consumer wastes; Whereas special attention should be given to the protection of natural resources by making a sustained effort to avoid waste and