Translation of "Textile Industry Training Board " (English → French) :

A further project, ADVOTTEX, has set up an interface between the textile and clothing industry and the relevant universities and training institutes (some of which were already organised into the AUTEX network [51]) to establish an inventory of the information and communication technology (ICT) training needs and opportunities of the sector.

In order to clarify the state aid policy in these areas, the Commission has adopted a number of guidelines and frameworks, including areas of high importance for the textile and clothing industry such as research and development, employment and training, SMEs, protection of the environment and rescue and restructuring of firms in difficulty.

Actions are needed to support enterprises in those industrial sectors, such as textiles and clothing, which require new skills and training programmes.

While companies are responsible for establishing adequate strategies and adapting to a changing competitive environment, Member States and European Union authorities need to ensure a coherent policy mix and the adequate availability of instruments which - by promoting improvements in the areas of research and innovation, quality and creation and training - would enhance the competitive capabilities of the EU textiles and clothing industry.

International fisheries agreements also include specific actions designed to aid the development of the local fishery sector and ancillary industries such as: measures geared to the conservation and study of marine resources; creation and operation of infrastructure for monitoring the fleets operating in these fisheries; training programmes for officials and local agents involved in the fishery sector, including the cost of participation by the administration of these countries in international fisheries organisations; provisions designed to guarantee food security through the compulsory landing of part of the catch; provisions geare ...[+++]d to promoting an emerging local processing industry whose market is the European Union itself, by granting generous customs concessions for imports from these third countries, which mostly enter the Community with zero duty; strengthening the small-scale coastal fishing sector and, where appropriate, the existing processing industry; training for observers, inspectors and seamen on board vessels operating in the country, etc.

In the textile and clothing sector, the 2003 Communication clearly identified the key issues in the sector: innovation, RD, training, and industrial policy cooperation with China.