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lpv:speaker	lp:Francisco Assis2
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lpv:translated text	". Mr President, I shall start by commending Mrs Saïfi on her outstanding work. The issue before us is the need to draw up and implement a trade and industry strategy to ensure the viability of the European textiles and clothing industry in the context of the major opening up of the international markets. For such a strategy to succeed, it will require both defensive and more proactive measures to be adopted. The defensive measures relate to the need to help to regulate international trade in the sector, and in this regard, we welcome all initiatives aimed at ensuring reciprocal conditions of access to markets and at invoking all ethical, social and environmental clauses guaranteeing such proper regulation of the international markets. This is not about protectionism. It is about ensuring that international trade in this sector can take place on the basis of justice and fair play. Proactive measures must be adopted, because this is also about the worldwide competitiveness of this industrial sector. Such proactive measures entail the EU adopting a more aggressive industrial policy for this sector, which is a hugely important sector. In this context, we also welcome all initiatives aimed at fostering greater investment in research and development, at promoting innovation and at improving access to funding, which is one of the key problems that these businesses have to face. Over 95% of this business landscape is made up of small- and medium-sized enterprises, and one of the most serious problems that they face is precisely that of access to funding. Against this backdrop, we feel that it is vitally important that steps are taken to invest in technological progress in manufacturing, to create mechanisms for fashion and new services, to invest in technical textiles and in non-technological innovation and to set up a technology platform with a view to strengthening this industrial area. In this respect, there are, from our point of view, two components that should be brought to the fore: the trade component and the industry component. If the two go hand in hand, it may be possible to make the EU textiles and clothing sector viable. To conclude, I wish to repeat our call for the international markets in this sector to be regulated and the EU must table clear proposals in the context of the Doha Round, and when we say this we are not calling for protectionist measures to be adopted. This is a sector that must be opened up, and that must strengthen its capacity to compete in international markets. Yet we are only talking about regulation of international trade in this sector that has very specific characteristics. It is essential that this take place."@en1

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