Mr Luke Chatel, Secretary of State charged with industry and with consumption, spokesperson of the Government. Mister deputy, ( ) the North is a big industrial region, the second for textile industry, first one for remote sale, two affected sectors by crisis and which are more on the whole victims of technological mutations.

I could determine on the ground, at home, beside the president of the Textile group to the National Assembly, Christian Vanneste, difficulties which meets textile course of study and effectiveness of some measures in favour of competitiveness which we took, especially the reform of the tax credit searches and the abolition of the professional tax for the new investments to this day, and from now on final.

We offered yesterday more directed measures aimed at textile industry, first by accompanying the pole of competitiveness UPTEX and in labellisant two new plans, but also by allowing to the firms to improve their management of production to accomplish productivity gains, or by throwing a cluster of the insubstantial, that is to say by supporting all that is not technological innovation design, marks, all that characterises French-style know-how.

Finally, in the sector of remote sale, I offered to support the pole of competitiveness PICOM, which works on the innovation in domain, to accompany firms also in training. Job evolves with the advent of e-trade. Firms, organisations of professional training and State need to meet around a charter, as we made it in the motorised sector.

You see him, we completely rallied in favour of these two sectors in trouble. As said it the President of the Republic, a country without industry, it is a country without economy. It justifies that we are completely mobilised for the industry of the North. (Applauses on the benches of the group UMP.)