Pending implementation of the High Level Group's recommendations, on which Parliament will state its position, the European Union has defined a strategy for coping wit
h changes resulting from the end of quotas, which translates, it would seem, into specific commitments: producing a draft protocol on the rules of origin, adopting guidelines regarding the textiles-specific safeguard clause fo
r China, putting in place the Community preference system, the likely establishment of a 10% threshold with the aim of preserving the market share
...[+++]of traditional providers of the EU, negotiating at the WTO in order to obtain substantial concessions from emerging countries that maintain high tariffs, as well as erecting non-customs barriers in the textiles and clothing sector and, finally, adopting strategic plans at local level to improve the allocation of public funds.