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Mr President, the European Commission shares the concerns expressed about the use of child labour in general and, particularly, in the production of sports equipment.
The Commission is establishing a strategic partnership with the ILO as a follow-up to the communication on building an effective partnership with the United Nations in the fields of development and humanitarian affairs and the communication on promoting core labour standards and social governance. In that context, careful attention will be given to possible support for the ILO's International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour.
Annual high-level meetings between the Commission and the ILO are held in the framework of the cooperation between the two organisations agreed in May 2001. The next high-level meeting will take place on 8 July 2003 – a week from now.
The Community is increasing its support for universal and compulsory primary education in all developing countries. It sees this as one of the most efficient means currently at its disposal to draw children out of the vicious circle of exploitation.
We place great emphasis on working with the ILO on this issue, both because of the problem of child labour as such, and because this is an area in which most people understand the whole rationale of strengthening governance and the rights that the ILO is working for."@en1
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