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17.1) Boosting research, development and innovation activities and collaboration on that (ndlr: reducing dependency of EU foreign policy actors in economically strategic sectors) between public and private partners.

17.2) Maintaining an ambitious trade negotiation agenda that can contribute to building resilience and diversification of supply chains, in particular for raw materials, while also sharing the benefits of trade more equally and with more partners, thereby limiting our exposure and dependency on a small number of potentially risky suppliers.

17.3) Increasing the resilience of EU supply chains through fostering investment in strategic sectors in the EU, stockpiling critical productions and devices and diversifying the supply sources of critical raw materials.

17.4) Investing further in the completion of the internal market, creating a level-playing field to make it more attractive to produce and buy these items in the European Union.

17.5) Support to keep such products available and affordable to European consumers and reduce dependencies from outside, for example through the use of structural and regional policies, tax breaks, subsidies, infrastructure and research investments, boosting the competitiveness of SMEs as well as education programmes to keep related qualifications and jobs in Europe that are relevant to secure basic needs.

17.6) European-wide programme to support small local producers from strategic sectors across all Member States16, making greater use of the EU programmes and financial instruments, such as InvestEU.

17.7) Better cooperation between Member States to handle the management of supply chain risks.