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2012 Response to the Commission Green Paper on Restructuring
Against the background of the importance of the topic Ceemet welcomes the opportunity given with the Green paper on “Restructuring and anticipation: what lessons from recent experience” to share its views on some of the questions raised in the latter. In its response Ceemet will comment primarily on issues which are of particular importance for the Metal, Engineering and Technology-based (MET) industries.
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Ceemet key messages
- Ceemet would like to underline that it if companies are to maintain and increase their competitiveness it is essential that they are able to adapt quickly to change, including being able to carry out restructuring swiftly when a need for this arises.
- This is particularly true for companies in the MET sector which compete on a global market. The sectoral Social Partners Ceemet and EMF have jointly concluded in their joint statement to the Commission regarding the Communication on “Industrial Policy for the globalization era”, that companies in the European MET sector must be equipped to meet the challenge of international competition and the need to cope with ever faster technological and organizational changes, and to see these changes as opportunities.
- Against the background of the importance of the topic Ceemet welcomes the opportunity given with the Green paper on “Restructuring and anticipation: what lessons from recent experience” to share its views on some of the questions raised in the latter.
- Considering that the Green Paper to a large extent deals with issues which are of particular importance to and within the remit of the Social Partners, Ceemet would expect that the Commission would give priority to opinions presented by Social Partners where and as appropriate.
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