(ix)
Textile and leather industries;
(x)
Transport and communications industries; and
(xi)
Biotechnology industries;
(b)
Ensure the promotion of small-scale industries with a view to
enhancing the generation of employment opportunities in Member
States;
(c)
Promote intermediate industries that have strong linkages to the
economy in order to increase the local component of industrial output
within the Community;
(d)
Prepare master plans at regional and Community levels for the
establishment of African multinational industries particularly those
whose construction cost and volumes of production exceed national
financial and absorptive capacities;
(e)
Strengthen and establish, where they do not exist, specialised
institutions for the financing of African multinational industrial
projects;
(f)
Facilitate the establishment of African multinational enterprises and
encourage and give financial and technical support to African
entrepreneurs;
(g)
Promote the sale and consumption of strategic industrial products
manufactured in Member States;
(h)
Promote technical co-operation and the exchange of experience in the
field of industrial technology and implement technical training
programmes among Member States;
(i)
Strengthen the existing multinational institutions, particularly, the
African Regional Centre for Technology, the African Regional Centre
for Design and Manufacture and the African Industrial Development
Fund;
(j)
Establish a data and statistical information base to serve industrial
development at the regional and continental levels;
(k)
Promote South-South and North-South co-operation for the
attainment of industrialisation objectives in Africa;
(l)
Promote industrial specialisation in order to enhance the
complementarity of African economies and expand the intraCommunity trade base, due account being taken of national and
regional resource endowments; and
(m)
Adopt common standards and appropriate quality control systems,
which are crucial to industrial co-operation and integration.
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