CNA Emilia-Romagna is National Confederation of Crafts and Small and Medium Sized businesses is the VOICE of craft, small and medium sized firms and specialised workers. It represents and safeguards the interests of Provincial and Sectorial Associations and of its entire membership, with public and private institutions, Public Administration, and with regional political, social and economic organizations. CNA Emilia Romagna together with the Provincial Associations, the National Sectorial Associations and all other Regional Associations, is part of the system of the National Confederation of Crafts and Small and Medium Sized businesses. The function of CNA Emilia Romagna is to provide integration among the Provincial Associations. It defines regional financial policy, promotes industrial relations and drafts industrial agreements. It works out legislative proposals to present to the regional government. It also carries out and manages European Community policy in the regional area. CNA Emilia Romagna is involved as an independent political player in the setting up of economic development policies aimed at increasing the competitiveness of the region’s economic and social system. In addition, CNA acknowledges and defends the EC’s own values of political freedom, social cohesiveness and economic development, as values of the Craft industries and of Small and Medium Sized businesses. CNA offers reliabilty, opportunity and competence to its entrepreneurs. Knowledge, research and innovative technology are strategic lines followed by CNA to achieve economic development and to compete in every system from local level to the new global level