04/05/2007 (Agence Europe) - The social partners of the services sector in rural areas - CEETTAR (employers) and EFFAT (employees) - have suggested creating a common continuous training section for rural services specialists. The aim of the training is to meet the need for specialised workers in this sector which represents 7,500 companies in Europe with around 380,000 employed and an annual turnover of €80 billion. For further information see: www.effat.org (gb)