Food

This working tool presented in a concrete and pragmatic manner in the form of interactive pages, is accessible to all the players concerned on the joint site of the European social partners in the sugar industry eurosugar.org in three languages (English, French and German).

You can find this article and its documents in several languages on www.effat.org

At the General Assembly of the Food industry, the European trade unions of the food and beverages sector evidenced an increasing variety of new forms of labour, atypical contracts and a worrying rise of precarious work. EFFAT affiliates insisted once again on the need to combat the unsecure, unsafe and dangerous form of work in the meat sector.

EFFAT - CEFS CONFERENCE

In a European conference held on 28 October, the social partners of the sugar sector, EFFAT and CEFS presented, in the presence of the European Commission, their views on the needs of the industry and the actions to secure the future of sugar workers.

European Commission Vice-President Verheugen set up a High Level Group on the Competitiveness of the Agro-Food Industry [19 KB] composed mainly of representatives of selected Member States, the European Community agro-food industry, of professional associations and of civil society. Vice-President Verheugen is leading this exercise together with his fellow Commissioners Mariann Fischer Boel, Meglena Kuneva and Androula Vassiliou.

The members of the High-Level Group on Agro-food competitiveness meeting at the European Commission agreed on the 6^th July the Roadmap of actions to improve the industry’s competitiveness.