European Association
of Sugar Manufacturers

European Association
of Sugar Manufacturers

8 05, 2018

CEFS is recruiting a Junior Scientific & Regulatory Affairs Officer for Food Law, Animal Feed and Beet Questions Department

By |2018-05-08T15:32:23+00:00May 8th, 2018|

Junior Scientific & Regulatory Affairs Officer for Food Law, Animal Feed and Beet Questions Department CEFS – Comité Européen des Fabricants de Sucre (European Association of Sugar Manufacturers) Brussels – Belgium CEFS stands for le Comité Européen des Fabricants de Sucre, or in English: the European Association of Sugar Manufacturers. CEFS is an international non-profit organisation [...]

20 03, 2018

The EU-Mercosur negotiations: in defence of the 98 EUR/tonne duty

By |2018-03-20T10:43:56+00:00March 20th, 2018|

CEFS, CIBE and EFFAT understand that in the context of the ongoing trade negotiations the European Commission has offered the Mercosur countries an annual tariff-rate quota of 100,000 tonnes of sugar at 98 EUR/tonne duty. This is a substantial quantity that is higher than the annual output of some factories. The Commission has so far [...]

27 02, 2018

Sustaining livelihoods - the EU sugar industry CSR report 2017 is now available

By |2018-02-28T09:17:21+00:00February 27th, 2018|

The plenary meeting of the EU sectoral social dialogue committee for sugar on 26 February was the occasion for the publication of the EU sugar industry's CSR report for 2017. The meeting brought together representatives of the European-level social partner organisations in the sector: CEFS, representing employers, and EFFAT, representing trade unions. The report [...]

14 11, 2017

CEFS-CIBE Factsheet on Molasses

By |2018-02-28T10:43:58+00:00November 14th, 2017|

Molasses is a thick, sweet syrup obtained during the transformation of beet or cane into sugar. It constitutes the remaining syrup from the crystallisation stage of the sugar production process, making it an inevitable final material arising from sugar production. In the case of the EU beet sugar sector, the processing of beet into sugar [...]

27 07, 2017

Brazilian support measures for sugar-ethanol sector: CEFS, CIBE & EFFAT respond to UNICA

By |2018-02-27T09:30:36+00:00July 27th, 2017|

CEFS, CIBE and EFFAT represent 61 sugar producing companies, 28,000 workers, and 140,000 sugar beet growers. To coincide with the last round of trade negotiations between the EU and Mercosur, our organisations published a press release calling for the exclusion of sugar from the discussions. The Brazilian sugarcane association – UNICA – issued a response [...]

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