ECOWAS b) REVISED TREATY promote joint industrial development projects as well as the creation of multinational enterprises in priority industrial sub-sectors likely to contribute to the development of agriculture,transport and communications, natural resources and energy. In order to create a solid basis for industrialisation and promote collective selfreliance, Member States shall: a) ensure, on the one hand, the development of industries essential for collective self-reliance and, on the other, the modernisation of priority sectors of the economy especially: i) food and agro-based industries; ii) building and construction industries; iii) metallurgical industries; iv) mechanical industries; v) electrical, electronics and computer industries; vi) pharmaceutical, chemical and petrochemical industries; vii) forestry industries; viii) energy industries; ix) textile and leather industries; x) transport and communications industries; xi) bio-technology industries; tourist and cultural industries. b) give priority and encouragement to the establishment and strengthening of private and public multinational industrial projects likely to promote integration; c) ensure the promotion of medium and small-scale industries; d) promote intermediateindustriesthat have strong linkages to the economy in order to increase the local component of industrial output within the Community; e) prepare a regional master plan for the establishment of industries particularly those whose construction cost and volume ofproduction exceed national, financial and absorptive capacities; 18