One of the things that I think we've always worried about was, when we go into these high-tech production systems, are we going to get to a point where farmers can't handle it and are we going to be asking them to manage complicated situations that they really won't have the wherewithal to manage?

7. Calls on major international garment brands to investigate their supply chains with a critical eye, to cooperate with their subcontractors to improve occupational health and safety standards, and to ensure that an adequate level of safety standards is applied in the production of goods exported from Bangladesh;

18. Stresses in this context the great importance of initiatives at the local level, such as reforestation and afforestation, in order to actively participate in the fight against climate change and points out the important role of exchange of information on good practices and appropriate information campaigns, e.g. on how coastal and mountain areas, islands and lowlands should adapt to climate change, in coordination with the more extensive initiatives undertaken by national authorities and by the EU with a view to the more effective implementation of Community legislation, strategies and programmes in this area; also points out that outlying regions can make a major contribution through decentralised energy ...[+++]production, helping to achieve greater energy efficiency through reduced grid wastage and better demand management;

So the band-aid of a safeguard from China when worldwide capacity is twice worldwide demand.And you're not talking about the car industry, where it is heavily capital intensive. You're talking clothing, which is so easy to move from one country to another.

Three measures aim at managing production potential, by limiting planting rights and by supporting structural improvement through (a) permanent grubbing-up and (b) restructuring/reconversion programmes focusing on adapting quality and quantity to consumer demand.

In the area of technological research and development, the report raises the question of whether, with a view to speeding up the automations of the later stages of production, the time has not come to look at the possibility of a more ambitious approach bringing together, in a form yet to be defined, representatives of the textile and clothing industry and textile machinery manufacturers and using suitables forms of joint or cooperative research backed by Community financial aid.