ROMA (ITALPRESS) – Rome and Paris together to relaunch European industrial competitiveness, strengthen the chains of value and defend and value the key productive chains of the continent, starting from the fashion industry. A strategic alliance between the two main countries of luxury in the world, founded on the sharing of an industrial and creative ecosystem and the desire to unite visions and responsibilities, destined to represent a model of cooperation also for other sectors in which Italy and France share a strongly integrated production system. It is shared in the course of the National Table for Fashion at Mimit, by the Minister of Enterprises and Made in Italy, sen. Adolfo Urso, and the French Minister Delegate for Industry, Sébastien Martin, exceptional guest of the meeting, attended by Vice Minister Valentino Valentini, Undersecretary Mara Bizzotto, the representatives of the Dicasteries involved, the respective Chambers of Fashion and Confindustri, representatives of the supply chain and economic world, representatives of the Conference of Regions, trade union associations and the most representative national category.
“This must be the industrial renaissance season of Europe,” Minister Urso said. “Today more than ever – he added – we must work together to protect the industry of our continent, through radical and organic reforms that restore centrality to the European productive dimension. We have shown this in the many meetings in a few months, in the preparatory work carried out for the bilateral summit of Antibes, in France, and in the final document indicating the common road that Italy and France intend to travel, both in bilateral and European collaboration. Now together to strengthen our strategic sectors: from fashion to household appliances, from automotive to steel, from chemistry to microelectronics, from raw materials to space. ”
“Italy and France want to build an industrial and sovereign Europe,” Minister Martin said. “With Adolfo Urso, a few days after the 36th Italian-French Summit, we are strengthening our cooperation in the field of luxury and fashion. It must become a model for other strategic industrial sectors. Faced with unfair competition, France and Italy mobilize to defend Made in Europe. In order for Europe to be competitive and sovereign, we must produce Europeans, buy Europeans and defend our interests from Europeans. France can count on Italy to carry out this political ambition awaited by our fellow citizens in the coming months.”.
In detail, during the meeting Urso and Martin focused on the impetus that the two countries gave to the European Commission in contrast to the phenomenon of ultra fast fashion, favouring the entry into force, in the European Union, from 1 July last, of a fixed customs duty of 3 euro on packages of value less than 150 euro coming from non-EU countries. A measure that, Urso reiterated, protects European consumers from products that jeopardize their health because they do not comply with health and environmental standards, and protects businesses from unfair competition that passes through e-commerce and that in recent months has seriously jeopardized the European fashion system. Last year, in fact, almost 5.9 billion items contained in packages under 150 euros, for more than 90% coming from China, invaded the European market without paying any duty.
On the other hand, in the second part of today’s Table, measures have been taken for the sector that the government is putting in place in the national field. Regarding the tax credit design and aesthetic design – intended to support creativity and manufacturing capacity of enterprises supporting the production of samples – the success of the measure that has reached in a few hours from the opening of the platform the available endowment of 60 million euros, with over 400 practices presented. In this regard, the Minister pointed out that the Mimit is at work for the refinancing of the measure given the great appreciation of the instrument.
The Annual SME Law has allocated to the Fashion Sectors up to 100 million euros for the Mini Development Contracts, aimed at supporting investment programmes of not less than 1 million euros and not more than 20 million euros. In this sense, Urso announced that the preparatory work, with the involvement of the associations of category of the sector, for the definition of the actuative decree that will have to establish the conditions and modalities for the concessions.
The minister then recalled the refinancing of the New Sabatini and the success of the New Transition Plan 5.0, which can count on almost 10 billion concessions and on a three-year programming. In just one month, over 9,000 projects submitted by enterprises, for more than 3 billion euros of investments. Data confirming the confidence in the measure and the desire for innovation by the production system, in the wake of the success of the previous Transition Plans 4.0 and 5.0, which have activated altogether beyond 10,5 billion euros of concessions, supporting more than 30 billion investments.
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