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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I shall begin by thanking Commissioner Busquin for coming here today. I should also like to express my appreciation for the high quality of the Commission Communication on the future of the textile industry in an enlarged Europe. We are still very concerned, however, and many questions remain unanswered. I shall now highlight some, as raised by Mrs Ferrer. How will the Commission translate proposals into specific actions? What timetable does it envisage and what budget does it intend to use for implementing these measures? Commissioner Lamy’s optimistic words, regarding the textiles and clothing industry, come to mind at this point. He classified it as a sector with a future in the European Union and of major importance for the European agenda for trade. Commissioner Lamy recently said that ‘by 2005 import quotas will have been abolished, but our commitment to the industry will not waver’.
We have to address current and future challenges, while resolutely guaranteeing jobs in the sector. It is essential to promote companies’ competitiveness through innovation, flexible production practices and by providing the current workforce in the industry with vocational training and further education. I should like to highlight some of the points in the motion for a resolution tabled by Mrs Ferrer:
firstly: the vital role of structural funds. I endorse the request to establish, within the financial framework of the structural funds, a specific regional initiative for the sector in order to address the difficulties that will arise in 2005 and to adapt the workers to the new demands of the employment market;
secondly: creating a textiles and clothing monitoring centre. This will make it possible to analyse the development of trade between China and the EU and to ensure compliance with the rules in force in both regions. Assuming that the Commission agrees, when could such a monitoring centre be created?
thirdly: bilateral trade agreements. All of the EU’s bilateral trade agreements must incorporate the principle of corporate social responsibility, compliance with the fundamental rights laid down by the International Labour Organisation and sustainable development."@en1
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