COLIPED argued that in the Union there are about 300 factories which are supplying components to the bicycle producers which employ about 7300 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 7300 personnes, et que leur survie dépend inévitablement du maintien de la production de bicyclettes en Europe.