Industrial cooperation
Article 53
Cooperation shall be aimed at: (a) encouraging or supporting measures designed to promote direct investment and industrial partnership ventures in Algeria; (b) encouraging direct cooperation between the Parties' economic operators, including cooperation in the context of access for Algeria to Community business networks and decentralised cooperation networks; (c) backing the effort to modernise and restructure Algeria's public and private sector industry (including the agri-food industry); (d) fostering the development of small- and medium-sized enterprises; (e) fostering an environment which favours private initiative, with the aim of stimulating and diversifying output for the domestic and export markets; (f) making the most of Algeria's human resources and industrial potential through better use of policy in the fields of innovation and research and technological development; (g) supporting the restructuring of industry and the industrial upgrading programme with a view to the creation of the free trade area so as to make products more competitive; (h) contributing to the development of exports of Algerian manufactures.