Basically, it's in industry's best interest to offer training spots, to make sure they have skilled labour. In difficult economic times, of course, we have to have certain agreements between the government and the employers' associations. They sign a training pact to make sure we have a sufficient number of training spots. This is also funded with financial support from the European Union. There are programs that promote new training spots in companies, to give incentives to companies to make room for apprentices.
On February 5th, 2013. See this statement in context.