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Establishing the Observatory of the industry of the Metal of Catalonia
22/07/2009
July 22, 2009
The Secretary of industry and business, Antoni Soy; the President of the Metal·lúrgica employers Union (UPM), representing also the federations of employers in the metal of Girona, Tarragona and Lleida, Antoni Marsal; the Secretary general of the Federation of industry of Comisiones Obreras (FI-CCOO), Javier Pacheco; and the representative of the Metal, construction and Allied of the UGT (MCA-UGT), Manuel García-Salgado, yesterday signed the founding act of the sectoral Standing Committee of the Metal under the name of the Observatory of the industry of the Metal of Catalonia.
This Observatory is the result, on the one hand, of the commitment made by trade unions and employers in the collective bargaining of the iron and steel industry in the provincial areas of Catalonia and Catalan framework, on the other, the recent creation of the Consell of Industrial policy in Cataloniaunder the law 9/2009 industrial policy. This Act has the main objective of ensuring the participation of employers and trade unions in the definition of objectives and the identification of the most appropriate instruments of industrial policy for each sector of activity and to adapt them to new situations and realities.
The Observatory was established in the Ministry of industry and company with the participation of representatives of the Generalitat, trade unions and employers of the metal. Photo: Federació d'Indústria CC OO in Catalonia.
The Constitution of the Observatory took place in the Ministry of industry and enterprise, given the importance of the metal in the Catalan economy sector and the close link between the objectives envisaged in the framework of the collective of the iron and steel industry and the law of Industrial policy. Its main objective will be to examine, to know and follow the evolution and trends of the activities of the sector of the metal of Catalonia, in order to anticipate the events and make specific proposals to the problems of the companies. During the month of September will begin the work of the Observatory, which will be integrated into the Council of Industrial policy at the time of the adoption of the Decree, as provided for in the law 9/Industrial policy, adopted on 17 June 2009.
