COLIPED argued that in the Union there are about 300 factories which are supplying components to the bicycle producers which employ about 7 300 people and that the further existence of the supplier industry was therefore inevitably depending on the continuation of the bicycles production in Europe.
Il a fait valoir que l’Union compte environ 300 usines fournissant des composantes aux producteurs de bicyclettes et employant quelque 7 300 personnes, et que leur survie dépend inévitablement du maintien de la production de bicyclettes en Europe.