INTERNATIONAL
CONFEDERATION
OF EUROPEAN
BEET GROWERS
CIBE and CEFS alert the EU Institutions to the extremely worrying sugar market situation and call on the European Commission and the Member States to urgently take actions.
Farmers, agri-cooperatives, food processors, traders and fertilizer blenders warn that the small tweaks to the CBAM tax calculation formula introduced by the secondary legislation adopted today will not prevent the risk of fertilizer shortages or the prohibitive production costs threatening EU crop production.
As the EU-Mercosur agreement continued to be pushed by the Commission, key EU agri-food organisations, as well as labour and environmental rights advocates, once again raise a strong, united voice against the severe risks the agreement poses to EU food security, environmental goals, animal welfare, labour standards and farmers' livelihoods.
Despite the European Commission's recent attempt to "operationalise" the bilateral safeguard clause under the EU-Mercosur agreement, the mechanism remains unfit for the EU sugar sector.
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The Mercosur agreement does: NOT ensure fair competition for EU farmers, NOT prioritise consumer protection, NOT include strong safeguards to protect the environment.
✅Ensure productivity gains & competitiveness💪
✅Protect growers from unfair competition⚖️
✅Ensure resilience to rising risks🦠📉
✅Support innovation🧬
2025 will be Congress year! European sugar beet world will meet in Rotterdam from 11 to 13 June.
Read our new brochure highlighting the importance of sugar beet local production in Europe !
Discover our Manifesto ahead of 2024 European elections!
Let's work together to restore European agriculture's ambition. The voice of sugar beet growers is outlining 4 priorities:
See how the beet sugar sector is working hard to develop sustainable alternatives to respond to the ban of some key plant protection products.
Such alternatives will most likely have to consist of a combination of techniques and approaches. To develop and successfully implement these will require time, several years and considerable financial investment.
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In October 2013, the European beet growers (CIBE), sugar producers (CEFS) and trade unions of the food and agriculture sector (EFFAT) have formalised a landmark agreement to jointly highlight and report on representative Good Practices of sustainable production of beet sugar in the EU.
CIBE takes part in the AgroCycle project, a Sino-EU collaborative research venture, funded by the European Commission under its Horizon 2020 programme to create a protocol for the implementation of the 'circular economy' across the agri-food sector.
