Structure

CIBE delegates meet to collect and exchange information, present and discuss
problems and to draw up common positions. The working languages are: English, French, German and Polish.

General Assembly (GA):

The General Assembly (GA) is chaired by the President of CIBE. The President and First Vice-President are elected for a 2-year mandate, renewable once. It is composed of CIBE members - each member country has voting rights. It votes on the budgets and the major policy decisions and is held at least once a year.

The President is Guillaume GANDON (FR)

The First Vice-President is Arwin BOS (NL)

Vice Presidents are Krzysztof NYKIEL (PL), Bernhard CONZEN (DE), Fiorentina IACOB (RO), Hendrik VANDAMME (BE), Ernst KARPFINGER (AT), Jan KŘOVÁČEK (CZ), Troels FRANDSEN (DK)

PRESIDENT:

Guillaume GANDON (FR)

Economic Committee (EC):

The Chair of the Economic Committee (EC) is Bernhard CONZEN (DE).

The EC works on different subjects:

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.

Technical and Reception Control Committee (TRCC):

The Chair of the Technical and Reception Control Committee (TRCC) is Krzysztof NYKIEL (PL).

The Vice-Chair is Luigi MACCAFERRI (IT) and the Secretary is Benoit CARTON (FR).

Topics discussed by the TRCC include:

Agronomic issues concerning sugar beet growing,
Technical and economic issues linked to the harvest, transport and beet reception,
Environmental issues and the monitoring of the regulatory frameworks for plant protection product,
The emergence of non-food and energy uses for beet and its co-products.

It meets once a year (except during Congress years).

CHAIR:

Bernhard CONZEN (DE)

CIBE delegates meet to collect and exchange information, present and discussproblems and to draw up common positions. The working languages are: English, French, German and Polish.

CIBE delegates meet to collect and exchange information, present and discuss
problems and to draw up common positions. The working languages are: English, French, German and Polish.