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GUIDE SERIES TECHNOLOGIES No. 10

Centre for the Development of Industry
ACP - EU

This document was originally prepared on the basis of information provided by the institutions profiled. Despite all efforts made for updating and verification, the Centre for the Development of Industry does not accept responsability for the accuracy or completeness of the information. The inclusion of any institution in this document does not imply any commitment on the part of that institution to provide any of the services described.

CDI

Centre for the Development of Industry

52 avenue Hermann Debroux
B-1160 BRUSSELS
BELGIUM
Telephone +32 2 679.18.11
Telecopie +32 2 675.26.03
Tx 61427 cdi b

Since it was founded in 1977, the Centre for the Development of Industry (CDI) has acquired extensive technical and commercial know-how in the creation, development and rehabilitation of small and medium-sized industries in the ACP countries (Africa, Caribbean and Pacific), particularly through the establishment of lasting partnerships with companies in the European Union.

In publishing this collection of "Practical Guides", the CDI is meeting a clearly expressed need by ACP promoters and companies in the EU wishing to lay the foundations for industrial co-operation. The purpose of these guides is to enable them to adapt to the technical, commercial, financial, administrative and legal environment of the different countries. Designed to ease their task by providing detailed information -in simple practical terms - on a specific aspect or field of their activities, these guides are intended above all to be effective tools which managers can use on a day-to-day basis.

To prepare the guides, the CDI calls upon the services of consultants, researchers and businessmen - in both the ACP countries and the European Union - with extensive experience in the field concerned, in the practical problems actually encountered by entrepreneurs and in the solutions to be applied. Whenever circumstances allow, the CDI co-operates with partners (consultancy bureaux, research bodies, specialised institutions, etc.) to ensure that the guides are circulated as widely as possible.

This CDI guide has been compiled by Jean-Luc Voisin, food engineer, in collaboration with CDI experts.