CEFS is recruiting a Junior Scientific & Regulatory Affairs Officer for Food Law, Animal Feed and Beet Questions Department
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 […]
CEFS is recruiting a Junior Scientific & Regulatory Affairs Officer for Food Law, Animal Feed and Beet Questions Department
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 […]
Blanket ban on neonicotinoids: a severe blow with huge consequences for EU sugar beet growers and processors
The vote today at the SCoPAFF to ban neonicotinoids, including in pelleted beet seed, is a severe blow for sugar beet growers and for the sustainability of the EU beet sugar sector. It is not a science-based decision as far as sugar beet is concerned. It is highly regrettable that a majority of Member States […]
The EU-Mercosur negotiations: in defence of the 98 EUR/tonne duty
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 […]
CEFS-CIBE Factsheet on Molasses
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 […]
Brazilian support measures for sugar-ethanol sector: CEFS, CIBE & EFFAT respond to UNICA
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 […]
CEFS statement on Brexit
With regards to the negotiations concerning the departure of the UK from the EU, CEFS asks for the following:[1] 1. No disruption of trade After Brexit, the UK will be the EU-27’s most important export market for sugar. It is essential that sugar producers in the EU-27 retain access to the UK market, both as […]
EU-Mercosur negotiations: Stand up for EU sugar and ethanol!
EU sugar and renewable ethanol producers, sugar beet farmers, and workers call for no concessions on sugar and ethanol in the context of the EU-Mercosur trade negotiations. Brazil is the world’s largest producer and exporter of sugar, accounting for a massive 52 per cent of world net sugar exports in 2015. Brazil is also the […]
CEFS and SIX other EU associations stand against temporary market management measures
The EU sugar sector faces its biggest change in decades. On 1 October 2017 EU sugar production quotas will end. At this sensitive and uncertain time, the European Commission has proposed to vote in the Management Committee of 27 April 2017 on the introduction of ‘temporary’ measures (tenders for imports at reduced duties) to increase […]
EU sugar producers react to EFSA’s announcement of an upcoming Scientific Opinion on added sugars
CEFS, the European association of sugar producers, welcomes EFSA’s announcement of an upcoming Scientific Opinion on the health effects of sugars added to food and beverages, with the aim to establish a science-based cut-off value for daily exposure to added sugars from all sources which is not associated with adverse health effects. CEFS continues to […]
CEFS and EFFAT Joint Statement on the end of quotas
On 6 March 2017 representatives of employers (CEFS) and workers (EFFAT - the European Federation of Food, Agriculture and Tourism Trade Unions) in the EU beet sugar sector met in a plenary meeting of the EU Sugar Sector Social Dialogue. The EU beet sugar industry is preparing for one of the biggest changes in its […]
CEFS and CIBE react to the JRC study on the cumulative impact of future FTAs on agriculture
On 15 November 2016 the European Commission presented to the Agriculture and Fisheries Council the results of an economic study carried out by the Joint Research Centre on the “cumulative effects of concessions made in the context of free trade agreements on the EU agricultural sector.” The study covers the impact of 12 future trade […]