[Transition countries] Among the objectives underlying the restructuring of industries in the countries in transition after 1989 is the need to modernize and reorient production in order to improve the availability of quality consumer goods and reduce imports; strengthen export potential and increase exports; develop and strengthen the private sector and entrepreneurship; and increase investment activity. A further objective in some countries is to convert military establishments which comprise communications, engineering, electronics and aircraft plants in order to reorient the production of these establishments to the manufacture of consumer goods for domestic and export markets.