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Source: Dr. Zeller, Auernhofen, Franconia SZVG
| The 450,000 sugar beet growers
represented by CIBE produce on average just under 20 million
tonnes of white sugar per year from around 2 million hectares,
intended mainly for the 600 million inhabitants of the CIBE
member countries. The EU is the world's third producer. It is
also the world's leading sugar consumer and one of the leading
importers. |
When
CIBE was created in 1927, there was a sugar shortage
in Europe. Since then, enormous efforts have enabled the constant
development of this sector up to its present level. However,
due to successive reforms in the European Union and due to international
negotiations, European production has had to continually adjust
to the opening of the EU market to other trade partners (Balkans,
LDCs). |
Members of CIBE are national and regional associations. At present
CIBE represents sugar beet growers from 18 European beet-producing
countries; this includes 170,000 growers from 16 EU countries (Austria,
Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany,
Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, the Slovak
Republic, Sweden, the United Kingdom) as well as 240,000 growers
from 2 non-EU countries (Switzerland
and Turkey).
CIBE represents
and defends the interests of beetgrowers within the European Institutions
and international organisations on fundamental issues such as:
- The EU Sugar
Regulation
- The Common
Agricultural Policy
- International
and bilateral negotiations on free trade agreements
- Agronomic
and technical beet issues
- Sugar, sugar
by-products and bio-fuel market issues
- Environmental
issues
- CIBE delegates
meet to collect and exchange information, present and discuss
problems and to draw up common positions
- CIBE represents
the beet/sugar sector at the European Institutions (the Commission,
the Council, & the Parliament)
- CIBE is a
permanent expert observer at the EU Committee of Professional
Agricultural Organisations (COPA/COGECA)
- CIBE also
holds a seat on the Executive Committee of the World Association
of Sugar Beet and Cane Growers (WABCG)
- CIBE is a
non-governmental organisation recognised by the United Nations
(UNCTAD, FAO, ISO)
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