Whereas, in connection with the modernisation and restructuring of the Community fleets to create a context favourable to the environment and safety, social measures should be envisaged to help workers who wish to leave the inland waterway industry or to retrain for jobs in another sector, together with measures to encourage the establishment of groupings of undertakings, to improve operators' skills and to promote adaptation of the vessels to technical progress,
ker naj se v zvezi s posodabljanjem in prestrukturiranjem flot Skupnosti, da bi bile okolju prijazne in varne, predvidijo socialni ukrepi, ki bi pomagali delavcem, ki želijo izstopiti iz plovbe po celinskih plovnih poteh ali se usposobiti za druga dela v drugem sektorju, skupaj z ukrepi za spodbujanje ustanavljanja skupin podjetij, da bi izboljšali usposobljenost upravljavcev ladij in pospešili prilagajanje plovil tehničnemu napredku,