► ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE

 

       

       - General Assembly

 

 

       - Economic and General Affairs

         Committee (EGAC)

 

 

       - Technical and Reception Control 

         Committee (TRCC)

 

 

       - Board of Directors (BOD)

 

 

       - Presidium

 

 

       - CIBE staff

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chair: Bernhard CONZEN (DE)   Vice-Chair: Dirk de LUGT (NL)

 

 

 

 

During its General Assembly in 2010, CIBE decided to merge its Common Market Countries Committee and Co-operatives Committee to better reflect the current situation for European Beet Growers.    

 

The Common Market Countries Committee had been set up when the Treaty of Rome was signed in 1957 to deal with issues specific to the Common Market in sugar. It was then involved in drawing up the Sugar Regulation (1967) and continued to defend beet growers' interests on issues arising from policy developments in the EU in the field of sugar, sugar products, and co-products.

 

The Cooperatives Committee had been set up to deal with issues specific to the cooperative sector (such as beet growers' participation in the sugar industry) but also with issues such as the concentration and diversification of the sugar Industry, alternative uses for sugar beet (bioethanol, biogas) and beet co-products (e.g. beet pulp, animal feed legislation, etc...)

 

 
  

The EGAC continues this work and adopts positions, in particular with regards to:

 

  • Statistics and annual reports on: the harvest, Interprofessional agreements, analysis of sugar, ethanol and co-product markets,

 

  • Monitoring, analysis and management of the Common Market Organisation and its regulations,

 

  • Monitoring preferential agreements with ACP and LCD countries (annual report on trade),

 

  • Monitoring of EU trade policies: bi-lateral free trade agreement negotiations, WTO negotiations,

 

  • Monitoring of regulatory framework for biofuels and their development.

 

Delegates from this Committee meet whenever it is considered necessary - on average 4 times a year.