European Association
of Sugar Manufacturers

European Association
of Sugar Manufacturers

News2023-04-03T11:38:14+00:00
  • CEFS and EFFAT speak out: no response to an unrelenting market decline

    Speaking at today’s plenary meeting of the EU sugar sector social dialogue, representatives of the European Commission Directorate General for Agriculture & Rural Development once again offered no answers to the most pressing question ever faced by the EU beet sugar sector: how to arrest the current serious, unprecedented, and prolonged market decline? Over three […]

  • CEFS calls for a rational debate on the report “Food in the Anthropocene: the Eat-Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems”

    CEFS, the European association of sugar manufacturers, shares the concerns over obesity and non-communicable diseases and strives to ensure that recommendations are based on scientific evidence. This is the way to ensure that efficient solutions will be found to tackle the multifactorial obesity problem. Preventing obesity (and diet-related non-communicable diseases) requires managing calorie intake coming […]

  • Less sugar does not necessarily mean fewer calories - INFOGRAPHIC

    Did you know? Less sugar does not necessarily mean fewer calories. Check out our latest infographic on the topic  

  • CEFS, CIBE and EFFAT reject all market opening to Australia

    The EU sugar sector is in the midst of an unprecedented crisis. Prices have never been as low as they are today. The European Commission has so far ruled out any intervention to help the over 40 operators, 140,000 farmers, and 27,000 employees that directly depend on European sugar. But this same European Commission has […]

  • India, Pakistan, and the world market: the facts

    India and Pakistan are indisputably the two most destructive players active on the world sugar market today. Hiding behind their developing country status, in 2017/18 both countries have offered substantial, trade-distorting export support of questionable legality that could push more than four million tonnes of subsidised sugar onto the world market, 75 per cent more […]

  • THE EU SUGAR MARKET CRISIS – EFFAT AND CEFS RESPOND

    EFFAT, representing employees of the EU sugar sector, and CEFS, representing EU sugar manufacturers, unite to sound the alarm about the extreme crisis on the European sugar market. EU white sugar prices are now at their lowest since records began over twelve years ago. Even the most competitive sugar manufacturers are struggling to cover their […]

  • Corporate Social Responsibility in the EU sugar industry - read the CEFS-EFFAT brochure

    The EU sugar industry is committed to creating added human and social value by incorporating corporate social responsibility (CSR) into all its activities. Established in 1969, just after the creation of the Sugar CMO, social dialogue in the European sugar industry has brought together employers, represented by CEFS, and employees, represented by EFFAT, for almost […]

  • CEFS and CIBE call for caution in the trade negotiations with Australia

    Dear Commissioner Malmström, The European Association of Sugar Manufacturers (CEFS) and the International Confederation of European Beet Growers (CIBE) would like to register our concern with the ongoing free trade negotiations with Australia. First, there is no material need to open up the EU market to Australian sugar imports. EU production combined with existing tariff […]

  • CEFS elects Paul Mesters as new President

    CEFS General Assembly elects Paul Mesters as new President 22 June 2018: During the 2018 CEFS Congress in Valencia the CEFS General Assembly elected Paul Mesters for his first term as President of the association. Paul Mesters has been Chief Executive Officer of the Netherlands’ sole sugar producer Suiker Unie since June 2017. Before that […]

  • BREXIT: the position of the European sugar sector

    CEFS-CIBE POSITION ON BREXIT EU beet sugar manufacturers, represented by CEFS, and sugar beet growers, represented by CIBE, regret the departure of the UK from the EU.[1] We remain convinced that the best option to avoid disruption of EU-UK trade and of the EU sugar market itself would be for the UK to remain in […]

  • The EU-Mercosur negotiations: trade for all?

    Representing European sugar manufacturers, sugar beet growers, and employees respectively, CEFS, CIBE and EFFAT are watching with concern the ongoing EU-Mercosur trade negotiations. We would like to recall the theme of the Commission’s current trade strategy, which is ‘trade for all’. We recognise the importance of opening overseas markets for EU products. But the EU’s […]

  • CEFS, CIBE & EFFAT react to the conclusion of the EU-Mexico negotiations

    CEFS, CIBE and EFFAT take note of the conclusion of the EU-Mexico negotiations, in particular the offer of a sugar import quota to Mexico of 30,000 tonnes of sugar at 49 EUR/tonne duty to be phased in over a period of three years. The unprecedented step the Commission has taken to introduce an in-quota duty […]

  • The EU sugar market situation: an unprecedented price decline