FBT-07-061-ED

Wspólna deklaracja:Wspieranie zatrudnienia

w europejskim przemy le przetwórstwa mi snego

1. Warunki ogólne1

Znaczna cz przemys u mi snego jest jeszcze nadal przemys em wra liwym kosztowo.Bran a ta ca kowicie jest uzale niona od kszta towania si wykazuj cego siln konkurencjrynku zbytu.

W pa stwach cz onkowskich Unii Europejskiej przemys mi sny mo na uzna za wa nyczynnik gospodarczy. Produkcja, przetwórstwo oraz konserwacja mi sa i wyrobów mi snychw 25 krajach UE stanowi 16,0% ca kowitej produkcji artyku ów spo ywczych, napoi itytoniu. W 25 krajach UE export mi sa i wyrobów mi snych wyniós w 2006 roku 10.6%ca kowitej produkcji artyku ów spo ywczych, napoi i tytoniu. Szacowana warto exportuwynios a 5,2 miliardy EUR, warto importu mi sa i wyrobów mi snych jest wielko cipodobn .

W 25 krajach UE zgodnie z danymi z 2003 roku pracowa o w sektorze przetwórstwami snego ponad 1 mln ludzi, wi cej ni jedna pi ta (22,4 %) pracuj cych przy produkcjiartyku ów spo ywczych, napoi i tytoniu.

Niemcy, Francja i Zjednoczone Królestwo razem da y wi cej ni po ow ca kowitej produkcjiprzemys u mi snego 25 krajów UE (w 2003 roku 55,3 %) i zatrudnia y wi cej ni po owzatrudnionych w bran y (w 2003 roku 50,4 %). Znaczna by a równie ilo pracuj cych wprzemy le przetwórstwa mi snego w Polsce (11,9 % zatrudnionych w 25 krajach UE), aleDania by a jedynym krajem cz onkowskim, gdzie w 2003 roku ruszy a w przemy leprzetwórstwa mi snego znaczna specjalizacja (przyczyni a si do warto ci produktówprzemys owych ponad dwukrotnie ni rednia w 25 krajach UE).

2. Cel deklaracji

EFFAT i CLITRAVI, organizacje pracodawców i pracobiorców europejskiego przemys umi snego pragn przyczyni si do rozwoju europejskiego przemys u mi snego, stworzenianowoczesnego, skutecznego, skierowanego na rynek, utrzymywalnego i konkurencyjnego,zatrudniaj cego wykszta conych oraz motywowanych pracowników i oferuj cego takiemo liwo ci pracy przemys u produkcyjnego.

1 Komisja Europejska Commission: European Business Facts and Figures, Wydanie 2006

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Dlatego EFFAT2 i CLITRAVI3 proponuj , aby decyzje maj ce na celu poprawzatrudnienia podejmowa bior c pod uwag poni sze dwa wzgl dy:

• Stworzenie takiego rodowiska, w którym przedsi biorstwa znajdpodstawowe warunki zapewniaj ce stworzenie i utrzymywalno dobrejjako ci miejsc pracy;

• Potrzebne s inicjatywy proaktywne z udzia em ka dej z zainteresowanychstron w tym celu, aby powsta e miajsca pracy by y utrzymywalne,zapewnia y atrakcyjn prac i karier dla pracobiorców, i jednocze nie zyskidla przedsi biorstw.

3. Subsydiarno

EFFAT i CLITRAVI s mocno przekonane, e przy ca kowitym poszanowaniu zasadypomocniczo ci, w poni ej wymienionych bran ach nale y podejmowa dzia ania wspieraj cezatrudnienie na najbardziej odpowiednich poziomach (UE, narodowy, regionalny, miejscowylub przedsi biorstw).

4. Kszta towanie takiego rodowiska, w którym przedsi biorstwa znajdujpodstawowe warunki zapewniaj ce stworzenie i utrzymywalno dobrejjako ci miejsc pracy.

Dzia ania podejmowanie dobrowolnie nale y przedk ada nad dzia aniami obowi zkowymi idlatego przed z o eniem propozycji ustawodawczych nale y je najpierw przemy le .

Przepisy prawne powsta e na poziomie europejskim nale y przekaza przedsi biorstwom wformie atwej do stosowania. W tym celu nale y zapewni aby przepisy prawne:

• By y atwo zruzumia e i mo liwe do adaptacji• Oznacza y mo liwie najmniej dalszych obci e• Bra y pod uwag specyfik przemys u mi snego• Koncentrowa y si raczej na celach ni na rodkach• W ka dym pa stwie cz onkowskim mog y by jednakowo, przejrzy cie i

konsekwentnie realizowane

Bezpiecze stwo artyku ów spo ywczych ma podstawowe znaczenie. Jako i bezpiecze stwomi sa s elementami kluczowymi z punktu widzenia wzrostu utrzymywalno ci przemys umi snego i bezpiecze stwa miejsc pracy w tej bran y.

W dziedzinie bezpiecze stwa artyku ów spo ywczych brak harmonizacji punktówpomiarowych i praktyk narodowych, jak równie ograniczony charakter wymierzanych kar,mog stworzy niebezpieczne okoliczno ci i doprowadzi do niepo danych nast pstw.Dlatego w ka dym pa stwie cz onkowskim nale y zagwarantowa skuteczn i spójnrealizacj przepisów prawnych UE i wyników potrzebnego nadzoru.

2 EFFAT to Europejska Federacja Zwi zków Zawodowych Przemys u Spo ywczego, Rolnictwa i Turystyki. EFFATreprezentuje interesy pracobiorców w instytucjach Unii Europejskiej, wspomaga prac ERZ i jest uznanympartnerem socjalnym, prowadzi owocne dialogi socjalne z europejskimi federacjami pracodawców.3 CLITRAVI to europejskie centrum kontaktów niezale nych narodowych organizacji przemys u mi snego iprzetwórstwa mi snego, które wype nia ró ne zadania. Na poziomie UE, CLITRAVI jest organizacj ochronyinteresów. W swojej dzia alno ci skupia si na kwestiach gospodarczych i regulacyjnych.

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Naszym wspólnym interesem jest walka przeciwko wyst puj cym w przemy le(przetwórstwa mi snego) mi snym dzia a niezgodnych z prawem i zapobieganie tymzjawiskom. Niestety jeszcze wci mo emy do wiadcza w niektórych pa stwachcz onkowskich UE dzia ania, w czasie których nie maj cy oporów biznesmeni w sposóbniezgodny z prawem pomijaj przepisy bezpiecze stwa artyku ów spo ywczych, podatkowe isocjalne, nara aj c przez to image bran y i ryzykuj c zaufanie konsumentów do wyrobówprzemys u mi snego. CLITRAVI i EFFAT stanowczo pot piaj dzia ania niezgodne z prawem i

daj dla ami cych prawo surowszych kar.

CLITRAVI i EFFAT o wiadczaj , e konkurencj w przemy le mi snym nale yoprze na jako ci i innowacji, a nie na podejrzanych dzia aniach, które s u y ybyobni eniu kosztów przedsi biorstwa, ale szkodz konsumentom, konkurentom ipracobiorcom.

W wielu krajach europejskich rynek detaliczny artyku ów spo ywczych jest zdominowanyprzez kilku detalicznych gigantów. Du e firmy multiple retailer (hipermarkety,supermarkety i dyskonty) wywieraj nacisk na dostawców, polegaj cy na obni aniu cen winteresie osi gniecia w asnych celów handlowych (udzia w rynku i/lub maksymalizacjazysku). Obok zni ek uzyskiwanych na tranzakcjach z dostawcami, si a nabywcza mo emanifestowa równie w tych zobowi zaniach kontraktowych, które s wymuszane przezfirmy handlu detalicznego na dostawcach, np. ceny z list, obni ki, wsteczny dyskont na jusprzedane towary, znaczny wk ad w koszty promocji handlu detalicznego oraz obstawanieprzy wy czno ci na dostawy. Zmusza to stale dostawców do obni ki kosztów gdzie jest totylko mo liwe, co w rezultacie ma wp yw na wynagrodzenia i równie wewn trzne warunkiprzedsi biorstw.

Dlatego CLITRAVI i EFFAT wspieraj wszystkie takie inicjatywy, które stwarzajwi ksz przejrzysto i bardziej zrównowa one mo liwo ci zarobkowe w ca o cia cucha dostawców artyku ów spo ywczych.

5. Potrzebne s inicjatywy proaktywne w tym celu, aby stwarzane miejsca pracyby y utrzymywalne, zapewnia y pracobiorcom atrakcyjn prac i karier , ijednocze nie przynosi y zyski przedsi biorstwom.

EFFAT i CLITRAVI mocno wierz w skuteczno narodowych minimalnych standardów p acy iwarunków pracy. Te standardy stanowi wa ny rodek w zmniejszeniu socjalnych nadu y izniekszta ce uczciwej konkurencji gospodarczej pomi dzy przedsi biorstwami i pa stwamicz onkowskimi, jak równie s niezb dne do stopniowego wprowadzania standardów oszerokim zakresie we wszystkich pa stwach cz onkowskich Wspólnoty.

Wolny przep yw si y roboczej jest jedn z za o ycielskich idei Unii Europejskiej od TraktatuRzymskiego. Pi te poszerzenie UE umo liwi o przedsi biorstwom w 15-tu krajach UE naprzyci gni cie z nowych pa stw cz onkowskich wykwalifikowanych i motywowanychpracobiorców. Ci pracobiorcy cz sto zarabiaj swoj prac znacznie wi cej ni zarobki w ichkrajach ojczystych. Mimo to, po czenie tej doktryny z zasad wolnego przep ywu us ugdoprowadzi o w Europie bez granic do nadu y .

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Zatrudnianie mobilnych, migracyjnych pracobiorców w statusie samozatrudnienia mia onegatywne skutki zarówno dla przedsi biorstw jak i dla pracobiorców, oraz spowodowa ozniekszta cenia w konkurencji na podstawie sk adek socjalnych. Na podstawie sytuacji„zdanych na ask migracyjnych pracobiorców” otworzy a si mo liwo p acenia im ni szychzarobków ni pracobiorcom miejscowym. Wszystko to doprowadzi o to negatywnej spiraliwarunków pracy i uzupe niania pracy z najta szych róde .

Dlatego nale y wzmacnia walk z nielegalnym zatrudnianiem. Nale y wymierza surowszekary na ami cych prawo. Szukaj cych pracy poza granicami nale y informowa oobowi zuj cych w kraju podejmowania pracy prawach pracobiorców.

EFFAT i CLITRAVI proponuj niezale ny system pozwole dla agencji po rednictwapracy i pracobiorców pracuj cych w statusie samozatrudnienia. Poprzez to,mo naby stworzy „bia list ” agencji/pracobiorców, z której mo naby korzystaw ca ej UE.

Gdzie jest to mo liwe nale y poprawia wykszta cenie. W przemy le mi snym nale yrównie zwi ksza poziom automatyzacji. Obok problemów higieny i bezpiecze stwazwi zanych z artyku ami spo ywczymi (biologiczne czynniki dzia aj ce, substancjechemiczne itp.) równie wiele innych niebezpiecze stw zagra a zdrowiu oraz fizycznemusamopoczuciu pracobiorców (powtarzaj ca si praca, stres itp.)

Mimo, e mo na udowodni , e higiena i bezpiecze stwo w miejscu pracy s czynnikamimaj cymi wp yw na wydajno , inwestycje poprawiaj ce jako rodowiska pracy nie sta ysi jeszcze rozpowszechnion praktyk w pa stwach cz onkowskich. Jako nale ytraktowa jako nap d – wytycznych strategii lizbo skiej - kwitn cej godspodarki, wi kszejilo ci i lepszej jako ci miejsc pracy oraz przyjmuj cego spo ecze stwa.

EFFAT i CLITRAVI inicjuj do sk aniania i wzmacniania poprawy sytuacjiwarunków pracy przemys u mi snego w pa stwach cz onkowskich.

Nale y uczyni bardziej skutecznym i zharmonizowa w ca o ci a cucha artyku ówspo ywczych kontrole weterynaryjne i inne, które przeprowadzaj wykwalifikowani iniezale ni nadzoruj cy, od gospodarstwa do sklepu. Poprzez pomiary standardów, struktur ipraktyk narodowych (benchmarking) b dzie mo na rozpocz kszta towanie wspólnycheuropejskich praktyk i standardów.

Bezpiecze stwo artyku ów spo ywczych nale y zapewni w trakcie produkcji, niemo na tym kierowa . Dlatego utrzymywalny przemys mi sny potrzebuje wi cej,dobrze wykwalifikowanych, osi galnych pracobiorców, i jest to podstawowpotrzeb utrzymywalnego europejskiego przemys u artyku ów spo ywczych.Zagadnienie szkolenia zawodowego i wykszta cenia jest wspólnodpowiedzialno ci pracodawców i pracobiorców.

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6. Dalsze kroki CLITRAVI i EFFAT

Dwie organizacje wspólnie wzywaj do realizacji powy szych dzia a oraz za o e , i dlategomi dzy innymi:

• Systematycznie prowadz wymian informacji i opinii• Wydaj wspólne o wiadczenia• Uruchamiaj wspólne projekty• Organizuj wspólne seminaria na temat aktualnych zagadnie celem wymiany

informacji i opinii.

EFFAT i CLITRAVI ycz sobie pe nej konsultacji od Komisji Europejskiej w obu fazachartyku ów 138 i 139 Traktatu Amsterdamskiego zwi zanej z rozwojem wypadkówoddzia ywania socjalnego na poziomie Wspólnoty.

Podpisano: Budapest, 02.07.2007.*

Podpisuj cy Podpisuj cyHarald Wiedenhofer Jan Heemskerk

* Prawnie obowi zuj ca jest wy cznie wersja w j zyku angielskim.

FBT-08-116-DA

Równe traktowanie wszystkich pracowników agencjiDyrektywa 2008/104/KE z 19 listopada 2008 roku dotycz ca agencji pracy

tymczasowej

Dnia 22-go pa dziernika 2008 roku Parlament zatwierdzi propozycj dyrektywydotycz cej Agencji Pracy Tymczasowej. Parlament Europejski przeg osowa wsparcie dlawspólnego stanowiska Rady – zaadoptowanego w czerwcu 2008 roku – bez dodatkowychpoprawek.

Uzgodniony tekst, który jest ci ko wywalczonym kompromisem pomi dzy Parlamentem, arz dami poszczególnych krajów, zako czy dyskryminacj pracowników agencji pracytymczasowej i zapewni, e b d oni, od pierwszego dnia, traktowani na równi zpracownikami zatrudnionymi na sta e, w zakresie wynagrodzenia, prawa do urlopumacierzy skiego i urlopu wypoczynkowego. Celem jego jest równie uznanie legalnegowk adu sektora pracy tymczasowej w tworzenie miejsc pracy, jak te odpowiedzialno ciagencji, jako pracodawców. Zapewni to wi ksz przejrzysto i zwi kszy zaufanie wsektorze pracy tymczasowej.

1 Uzgodniony tekst

• Równe traktowanie, od pierwszego dnia, pracowników agencji pracy tymczasowej,w odniesieniu do pracowników zatrudnionych na czas nieokre lony, w zakresiepodstawowych warunków pracy i zatrudnienia (wliczaj c, w to p ac , urlopywypoczynkowe, czas pracy, przerwy w pracy i urlop macierzy ski).

Ka de odst pstwo od tej zasady musi zosta uzgodnione przez partnerówsocjalnych, w trakcie negocjacji zbiorowych lub poprzez umowy zpartnerami socjalnymi na poziomie krajowym (Artyku 5).

• Równy dost p do wspólnych udogodnie (takich, jak kantyny, opieka nad dzie milub us ugi transportowe).

• Lepszy dost p, dla pracowników tymczasowych, do szkole , zarówno w czasiewykonywania zada , jak i pomi dzy nimi.

• Pracownicy agencji tymczasowych informowani s o mo liwo ciach sta egozatrudnienia w przedsi biorstwie klienta.

2 Nast pne kroki:

Dyrektywa opublikowana zosta a w Dzienniku Oficjalnym L 327 z 5 grudnia 2008 roku imo na j znale , klikaj c na nast puj cy link (strona internetowa w j zyku angielskim):http://eur-lex.europa.eu/JOHtml.do?uri=OJ:L:2008:327:SOM:PL:HTML

Po tej publikacji, od krajów UE wymaga si w czenia postanowie Dyrektywy dokrajowego ustawodawstwa. Wejdzie ono w ycie w ci gu trzech lat.

Dyrektywa zapewnia, i wprowadzone zostan , w Krajach Cz onkowskich, praktyki relacjiprzemys owych dla ró nych warunków rynku pracy. Utworzy to pole dla odst pstw odzasady równego traktowania poprzez rodki umów zbiorowych lub – wed ug okre lonychwarunków – poprzez umow mi dzy krajowymi partnerami socjalnymi. Jednak e,

odst pstwo nie mo e, w adnym przypadku, wykorzystane by , jako pretekst do obni eniaistniej cego poziomu ochrony pracowników tymczasowych.

Wed ug Dyrektywy, Kraje Cz onkowskie musz kontrolowa i uzasadnia istniej cerestrykcje lub zakazy dotycz ce korzystania z agencji pracy tymczasowej. Restrykcje takiemog by utrzymane tylko, zgodnie z Dyrektyw , je li s uzasadnione dla dobra ogólnegointeresu.

Historia

W maju 2000 roku, partnerskie organizacje socjalne ETUC, UNICE i CEEP rozpocz yrozmowy dotycz ce umowy odno nie pracy tymczasowej, ale po roku negocjacji sta o sijasne, e pracodawcy nie zaakceptuj faktu, i warunki pracowników agencji pracytymczasowej powinny by równe z warunkami personelu przedsi biorstwa klienta.

Z powodu braku porozumienia pomi dzy dwoma stronami, Komisja Europejskaprzedstawi , w 2002 roku, swoj w asn propozycj Dyrektywy dotycz cej Agencji PracyTymczasowej.

Jednak e, dyrektywa nigdy nie wesz a w ycie, g ównie z powodu sprzeciwu kolejnychrz dów Wielkiej Brytanii. Powodowa o to obawy, i mocno rozregulowany rynek pracy tegokraju mo e nie skorzysta z przyznanych, ustawowych praw dla agencji pracytymczasowej.

Ko ci niezgody, w ci gu 25 lat dyskusji, by a zawsze kwestia mo liwych wyj tków odregu y równego traktowania pracowników agencji pracy tymczasowej w zakresiepodstawowych warunków pracy i zatrudnienia. Ró nice dotycz ce nast puj cych pyta ,by y szczególnie trudne do przezwyci enia:

• W jaki sposób zajmowa si do odst pstwami

• D ugo trwania okresu wdro enia zasady równego traktowania pracownikówsta ych i tymczasowych.

• Okre lenie p acy

Jednak od momentu rozszerzenia, w maju 2004 roku, pojawi o si wi cej mo liwo ci dlapracowników agencji pracy tymczasowej z nowych Krajów Cz onkowskich UE w 15 krajachUE. Spowodowa o to, i niezwykle istotnym sta o si okre lenie minimalnych standardówmaj cych na celu unikanie obni ania p acy i warunków pracy. W maju 2008 roku,partnerzy socjalni w Wielkiej Brytanii i rz d, prze amali lody i uzgodnili uznanie równegotraktowania pracowników agencji, przecieraj c drog dla dyrektywy UE w tej sprawie.

W czasie przygotowywania drugiego czytania raportu, skontaktowano si zprzedstawicielami wszystkich zainteresowanych stron, a w szczególno ci z EuropejskKonfederacj Zwi zków Zawodowych (ETUC), jak te z cz onkami Eurociett i Uni-Europa,którzy reprezentuj agencje pracy tymczasowej na poziomie europejskim. Wszyscy trzejpartnerzy wyrazili swoje poparcie, w komunikatach prasowych, w czerwcu 2008 roku.

W czerwcu 2008 roku, Ministrowie Pracy i Polityki Socjalnej UE osi gn li, wi kszo cig osów w Radzie Pracy, polityczne porozumienie w sprawie Wspólnego Stanowiska.

W pa dzierniku 2008 roku, Parlament Europejski, przeg osowa w Strasburgu wsparcie,bez poprawek, dla propozycji przedstawionej przez Rad i Komisj .

Rada osi ga kompromis w sprawie dyrektywy “sankcji”

Dnia 23 grudnia 2008 roku, stali przedstawiciele Unii Europejskiej osi gn li wymaganwi kszo w sprawie dyrektywy “sankcji”, która zapewnia harmonizacj pewnychzobowi za na o onych na pracodawców i sankcji podejmowanych przeciwko nim, abywalczy z nielegalnym zatrudnieniem obywateli krajów trzecich.

Kompromisowy tekst wskazuje, i pracodawcy b d przede wszystkim musielizweryfikowa , czy potencjalny pracownik ma klarown sytuacj prawn , tzn. wa nepozwolenie na pobyt lub równowa ne potwierdzenie i, po drugie, i poinformowane zosta ykrajowe w adze.

Niespe nienie tych wymaga , spowoduje na o enie na nich kar, wliczaj w to kosztypowrotu obywateli krajów trzecich, których sytuacja niezgodna jest z prawem i wyp atka dego nale nego wynagrodzenia, podatków i sk adek na ubezpieczenie spo eczne. Innesankcje mog równie zosta na nich na o one, na przyk ad, odebranie prawa dosubsydiów publicznych i wykluczenie z realizowania kontraktów publicznych na okres, dopi ciu lat, jak te tymczasowe lub definitywne zamkni cie ka dego zak adu, którywykorzystany zosta do pope nienia wykroczenia lub definitywne odebranie licencji naprowadzenie rzeczonej dzia alno ci.

Zak adaj c, i kary pieni ne i administracyjne nie s zawsze wystarczaj cozniech caj cymi dla niektórych pracodawców, kraje cz onkowskie stosowa powinnysankcje karne dla wi kszo ci powa nych, zamierzonych wykrocze takich, jakpowtarzaj ce si naruszanie prawa, jednoczesne wykorzystywanie znacz cej liczbynielegalnych pracowników lub fakt, i pracodawca zdaje sobie spraw , i pracownik jestofiar handlu lud mi.

Zasady te maj zastosowanie, w odniesieniu do wszystkich pracodawców, zarówno firm,jak i osób indywidualnych. W przypadku korzystania z us ug podwykonawców, wykonawcai wszystkie firmy w a cuchu podwykonawców mog , indywidualnie lub wspólnie, podlegakarze finansowej, je li podwykonawca, na ko cu a cucha zatrudnia nielegalnie obywatelikrajów trzecich.

Kraje cz onkowskie powinny zapewni , i osoby prawne mog podlega karze. Abyzapewni stosowanie dyrektywy, kraje cz onkowskie powinny podlega obowi zkowidokonywania minimalnej ilo ci inspekcji przedsi biorstw za o onych na ich terenie, wzale no ci od analizy ryzyka sektora przygotowanej przez w adze krajowe.

W sektorach, w których wyst puje nielegalne zatrudnienie, kraje cz onkowskie powinnypoinformowa Komisj Europejsk , do dnia 1 lipca ka dego roku, o wynikach tychinspekcji. Kraje Cz onkowskie zapewni powinny, i istniej efektywne mechanizmy, dzi kiktórym obywatele krajów trzecich, zatrudnieni nielegalnie, mog sk ada skargi przeciwswoim pracodawcom bezpo rednio lub poprzez wyznaczone strony trzecie takie, jakzwi zki zawodowe lub inne organizacje.

Parlament Europejski g osowa b dzie nad tekstem w lutym 2009 roku.

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FBT-09-004-ED

European Meat Industry’s developmentsSeptember -January 2009

SECTORAL INFORMATIONGermany becomes EU’s leadingpigmeat exporterPigprogress.net - 09 Jan 2009

Denmark lost its crown as the EU's leadingpigmeat exporter to Germany over the courseof 2008, states LandbrugsAvisen. Figuresreleased by German state secretary Gerd Muellershow that Germany exported over 1.5 million tonnesof pigmeat in the first three quarters of last year,superseding Denmark, which for many years hadheld the leading export position.

German exports to non-EU countries increased by74% in the first three quarters of 2008 to reach300,000 t; this was an increase in value terms of124% to reach €336m, contributing substantially tothe overall rise.

New veterinary agreements secured by the Germanfood ministry with non-EU markets may have pavedthe way for the increase, according to some reports.Germany’s export success comes despite a 2.7% fallin the nation's pig production compared to theprevious year.

Brazil faces problems in meat industrymeat international.com - 8 Jan 2009

Brazil’s second largest meat processor and largestpoultry processor faced 32% wiped off its shares inDecember. According to reports, the loss of US $406million in currency trading saw the dismissal of thecompany’s chief financial officer Adriano Ferreira onFriday now the company COE Isaac Zagury, alongwith the resignation of the CEO.

The loss of more than four hundred million dollars ina few days, proved more than the total profits of2007. The company has been forced to take out aline of credit, but has declined to comment on detailsof the source. Sadia operates 12 meat and poultryprocessing plants in Brazil, as well as a global meatempire.

Sadia has been downgraded by two credit ratingagencies. Moody’s have given the company a BA3from a BA2 Rating, followed by Standard & Poorgiving the company a BBX Rating, which hasnegative implications. The problems were foundwhen it was discovered that Sadia had lost US $407million on currency exchanges.

The Polish meat industry is boomingwww.meatandmeal.nl - 07-01-2009

WARSAW – The meat industry in Poland is booming.Five years after the Eastern European country joinedthe EU, the meat industry is worth €15 billion. Polandcurrently has 33,000 meat companies and meatconsumption in the country has risen by 25 percentsince 2004. In addition, the Polish economy isflourishing and Poland has becoming one of theleading pork exporting countries.

Much less South American beef sent tothe EUwww.meatandmeal.nl - 28-12-2008

ZOETERMEER – The European Union importedsignificantly less beef from South America last year.Calculated by carcass weight, there was a 43 percentdrop between January and September 2008.

This was revealed by figures issued by the EuropeanUnion and Productschap Vee & Vlees (PVV – theLivestock and Meat Marketing Board). Up to the endof October this year, no certificates of authenticitywere used for imports of Brazilian beef into Europe.

The Agrarisch Dagblad reports that certificates wereissued for five thousand tonnes of beef in total, butBrazil evidently still has difficulty in satisfying thestrict European import requirements linked to footand mouth disease.

Certificates were issued for the import of 28,000tonnes of Argentine beef. Of these, certificates were

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used for just 2,500 tonnes. The situation regardingUruguayan meat is similar. Certificates ofauthenticity were issued for five thousand tonnes,but these were used for just one thousand tonnes ofimports.

Incidentally, the certificates for the import ofAmerican and Canadian Hilton Beef were only usedto a limited extent. Certificates were issued for theimport of 11,500 tonnes, but only 3,600 tonnes wereimported.

Hormone-grown beef battle continuesmeat international.com -02 Jan 2009

The EU is now with confidence willing to engage inthe next steps to solve this long-standing tradedispute.

Europe does not like hormone-grown beef. Thereforethis type of beef from the US is banned in the EU.

In retaliation the US banned imports of Europeanbeef some ten years ago.

At the time, the EU ban impacted in particular onthe potential importation of US and Canadian beef.

Australia, at the time, had to adapt cattle trace backand certification to ensure compliance with the EUrestrictions - export documentation which is still inplace today.

The legitimacy of the EU beef import ban has nowbeen formally recognised by the World TradeOrganisation (WTO) Appellate Body, following someminor modifications made by the EU, to comply withWTO regulations.

And so the long-standing EU ban on hormone-treatedbeef is unlikely to be relaxed any time soon.

According to an EU press release this week, the WTOAppellate Body findings recommends that the US,Canada and the EU start talking again to resolve theexisting disagreement on trade sanctions.

At the time, WTO gave the US and Canadaauthorisation to impose those trade sanctions on theEU.

The EU has now convinced the WTO that there aresufficient scientific grounds for EU's restrictions onimports of hormone treated cattle and beef - a standwith which the US did not, and still does not, agree.

The report states that in regard to the ban that“....with one of the six hormones in question(oestradiol 17ß), there was substantial evidence thatit causes and promotes cancer and that it harmsgenes.

The EU has permanently banned the use of thishormone for growth promotion purposes.”

In confirming that the 1999 WTO ruling, whichendorsed the US trade sanctions, was flawed, theWTO's Appellate Body has stated that a former WTOpanel made a wrong decision based on incorrectinformation.

WTO rules again on US and EU beef tradespatmeat international.com - 22 Dec 2008

In the latest ruling made public on 31 March, theWTO ruled that the European Union’s de facto ban onimported US and Canadian beef raised with growthhormones goes against global trade rules. The EU

was forced several years ago to adjust its tradepolicies because of its illegal ban. New rules werethen introduced in 2003 based on new science. TheWTO, however, ruled that the science now used bythe EU was not in fact enough to continue the ban.

The EU says that the WTO – at least in this instance -didn’t have the right to judge whether or not the EU’snew ban was legal. The dispute, which ironically theEU brought against the US and Canada, was onlymeant to look at whether or not the US and Canadahad the right to continue imposing tariffs on itsproducts in retaliation for its earlier ban on hormone-treated beef that dated back to the 1980s. Both theUS and Canada introduced 100% tariffs on dozens ofEuropean products such as chocolate and truffles in1999 to the tune of US $116.8 million and CAN $11.3million. In the ruling at the end of March, the WTOruled that even though those tariffs were appropriatebecause of the EU’s old ban, they weren’t valid forthe ban the EU introduced in 2003.

So, in essence, the US and Canada are meant tocome up with new tariffs against the EU that areappropriate for the new 2003 ban.

The EU’s new rules came about in October 2003 witha scientific report that it claims proves that one ofthe six most commonly used growth hormones inbeef cattle causes cancer and damages humangenes. For the other five hormones, which it wasunable to find conclusive proof of specific harm tohuman health, the EU invoked the ‘precautionaryprinciple’. The EU uses the precautionary principle forits ban on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) aswell. Yet, despite the retaliatory tariffs on EUproducts, the EU is not about to back away from itsstance on growth hormones. According to a sourceinside the European Commission, the EU has noplans to change its policy, nor is it likely to do sodespite the new ruling - even if the US and Canadainstitute more retaliation measures.

So the stage is set to get even more complicated andthe trade spat between the three countries willcontinue for several years to come, without anyresolution. The US, EU and Canada have the optionto appeal the decision made in March, and Canadahas hinted that it might.

'2008 an excellent year for the meattrade'www.meatandmeal.nl - 23-12-2008

ZOETERMEER – Last year was an excellent year forinternational trade in pork and poultry meat, asreported by PVE after the GIRA Meat Club annualconference. However, this growth cannot be ascribedto the EU.

PVE has been part of the GIRA Meat Club for over 20years. The club is named after market research firmGIRA, which makes an estimate of developments inthe meat market for the coming year at the end ofeach year.

PorkIn 2008, worldwide production of pork rose by 2.4percent to over 93 million tonnes. The biggestportion of the rise was accounted for by China andthe US. However, production dropped slightly in theEuropean Union. While the price level for pigs was

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not bad in 2008, the operating results were negativedue to the sharp increase in feed costs.

PoultryGlobal production of poultry meat rose by 5 percentto 77 million tonnes in 2008, according to GIRA. Thegrowth took place in the US (up 4 percent to 20.4million tonnes), Brazil (up 6 percent to 11.5 milliontonnes) and China (up 11 percent to 12.7 milliontonnes). Russian production has risen sharply inrecent years: in 2005, it was 1.4 million tonnes andthis has increased to 2.2 million tonnes in 2008.Production also increased in the EU, but growth wasmarginal.

BeefGlobal beef production declined by 1.5 percent in2008. Production only rose in China. The biggestdecreases were in Brazil, where cattle breedersreduced the number of cows under the influence ofthe low yield prices.

EU continues its import ban on USchickenwww.meatandmeal.nl - 22-12-2008

BRUSSELS – The EU agriculture ministers aremaintaining the import ban on poultry from the USdue to contamination with chlorine.

On Thursday, the Council of Ministers rejected aproposal from the European Commission in Brussels.Of the 26 agriculture ministers, 18 were in favour ofmaintaining the import ban which has existed for thepast ten years.

The Commission wanted to allow ‘chlorine chicken’ tobe imported from the US for two years under strictconditions, provided that the label clearly stated thatthe product had been disinfected with chlorine. Italso wanted to carry out further research on healthrisks during this period.

European policy does not focus on decontaminatingmeat that has salmonella, for example, but onpreventing contamination.

Germany reaches the million mark in pigslaughteringwww.meatandmeal.nl - 18-12-2008

BERLIN – German abattoirs have reached a newvolume record: more than a million pigs wereslaughtered for the first time last week. TheAgrarisch Dagblad reported that according toagricultural market office ZMP, this is the first time inhistory that the magic million mark has beenexceeded in a week. The increase in volume ismainly linked to the approaching Christmas season.

German pig numbers continue to dropPigprogress.net - 29 Dec 2008

German markets and price reporting agency – ZMP –reports that German pig numbers are continue todrop. The number of swine dropped to 26.4 million inNovember 2008. The total number of animalsavailable for slaughter in 2009 is therefore unlikely tobe any higher than in 2008. The most significantdeclines were seen in the sow herds, where numbershave fallen by 143,600 animals or 5.9% in the past

year. Since May, the total number of motheringanimals has fallen by 94,000, a drop of 4%.

Farmers quit businessAlso in decline is the number of producers within theGerman pig industry, with 16.7% of German pig-rearing businesses closing down in the past year.

Decline in other countriesFalling pig numbers have been reported in manyother EU nations, most notably in Denmark, wherethe global credit crunch has hit the industry hard.Eastern European pig herds are also declining, withPoland seeing record lows.

European pig producers facing crisispigprogress.net - 24 Nov 2008

Both the Dutch and Danish herd sizes are shrinkingand pig producers throughout Europe are in crisis.The Danish herd is nearly eight per cent smaller thanit was a year ago and when viewed against the tenpercent fall recorded in summer; this suggests atentative stabilisation rather than a recovery.Contraction in the Dutch herd started later than inother parts of Europe but is now significant, with thisyear's August census showing a year on year drop offour percent in the breeding herd.

Pig World Publisher Digby Scott has some thoughtson the subject: European pig producers haveinvested heavily in efficient pig production and nowthey see mounting losses, their outlets shrinking andextra environmental and animal welfare costs theycannot afford. European pig producers are in crisisand for the first time units are lying empty becausenew or existing producers are no longer comingforward to step into the shoes of those who havegiven up the struggle.

Even those who are hanging on by their fingertipsare wondering if there is any point, because if red-tape and poor prices don't get them now, low-costimports from Brazil and the United States will getthem in the future. It is a gloomy prospect. Sogloomy that in the next few years Europe's largeprocessors and retailers might find their gravy trainrunning into the buffers as the European pig cyclebreaks beyond apparent repair, just as Britain's did adecade ago.

Brazil will be the meat-giant over 10yearswww.meatandmeal.nl - 06-08-2008

DOETINCHEM – Brazil will grow in the next ten yearsto become the world net-exporter of meat, inparticular beef and poultrymeat, states a study overthe global trade in the meat sector carried out by DG AGRI. This analysis is based on the most recentreport from OECD, FAO, the USDA and the researchinstitute Fapri.

The world production and consumption of meat willincrease by almost 2 percent each year, to reach 327million tonnes in 2017. Brazil will account for about51 percent of the increase of exports. The marketshare of this country in the export for beef andpoultry will be almost 50 percent in 2017. Itrepresents now respectively 25 and 37 percent. Oneof losers is the EU. DG Agri foresees that the share ofour continent in the world meat trade will decline.

EMPLOYMENT AND SOCIAL RIGHTSTyson fined half a million due toemployee’s deathwww.meatandmeal.nl - 07-01-2009

TEXARKANA –American meat company Tyson Foodshas reached a settlement worth half a million dollars(375,000 euro) after the death of an employee. TheUS Department of Justice has announced that TysonFoods has acknowledged its guilt in the maliciousviolation of employee safety regulations. Theemployee died five years ago in the animal feedfactory in Texarkana, Arkansas after being exposedto hydrogen sulphide gas.

Polish slaughterers get their own servicepointwww.meatandmeal.nl - 11-12-2008

ZOETERMEER – Poles, Bulgarians and Romanianswho work in the meat industry will be able to contacta service point as of 1 January.

Productschap Vee & Vlees (the Livestock and MeatMarketing Board) is making two hundred thousandeuro available for the service point, a trade unioninitiative. Three qualified people are being appointedand will be able to assist foreign employees in theirown language where possible. In any case, theintention is to appoint a person who is fluent inPolish.

The trade unions want foreign employees to bebetter informed about laws, rules and workingconditions. The aim is for the working group to do itswork in companies as much as possible and alsoconduct activities in trade unions.

Setting up the service point was not a completelysmooth process as employers believe thatestablishing a service point is not a task for theMarketing Board, but should be a component of theCLA negotiations.

Illegal Bulgarian employees detectedmore effectivelywww.meatandmeal.nl - 30-11-2008

THE HAGUE – The Netherlands and Bulgaria aregoing to combat illegal work, evasion of theminimum wage and abuse of social insurance. Arecent report by the Work Inspectorate revealed thatBulgarians comprise 35% of the illegal employees inthe meat sector.

Cooperation between the Dutch and Bulgarian socialsecurity authorities is being improved in order tocombat illegal work. This cooperation involvesimproved exchanges of data, appointing of contactpersons, performing joint risk analyses and filecomparisons and temporarily exchanging civilservants.

Both the Netherlands and Bulgaria will get a betterinsight into cross-border employee traffic as a result.The Netherlands will be able to improve its handling

of labour market abuses where Bulgarian employeesare the victims.

Persistent decline of foreignslaughterers in UKwww.meatandmeal.nl - 06-09-2008

LONDON – The British meat industry is facing achronic shortage of foreign workers. This is puttingthe overall production of meat under threat. One ofthe biggest meat companies had to reduce itsproduction by 25% for several weeks because ofshortage of workforce, announced the British MeatProcessors Association.

Since the EU enlargement in 2004, the UK has seenhundreds of thousands workers arrive from EasternEurope. However, since then, large numbers havegone back home. Moreover, the government made itmore difficult to recruit non-EU workers. “Altogether,we are suffering a shortage of skilled workers inslaughtering and deboning plants,” added BMPA.

Bulgarians, new illegal workers in themeat companieswww.meatandmeal.nl - 04-09-2008

THE HAGUE – Bulgarian are the new illegal workersin the Dutch meat companies. Moroccans and Turksare often working illegally too in slaughterhouses inmeat processing plants. Bulgarians represent 35percent of the total illegal workers inspected,followed by Turks (21 percent) and Moroccans (11percent).

This information was publicised by the labourinspections. This administration operated last year209 checks in the meat industry to fight illegal labourand under-payment.

From the checks, it seems that globally speaking,numbers of illegal workers in meat companies aredecreasing. In 2005, 25 percent of companies werebreaching the law; in 2007, only 16 percent were.

A reason for this is the real free movement ofworkers in the EU and also because a growingnumber of companies sign up to the ConvenantFlexibele Arbeid (Flexible Work Agreement). With thisproject, companies promise to work with temporarywork agencies which committed themselves torespect legislation which are registered.

Tönnies pays 80,000 euro for spying onits employeesmeatandmeal.nl - 15-09-2008

RHEDA-WIEDENBRÜCK - Tönnies must pay a total of80,000 euro to compensate for prejudice against theworkers on whom it was spying. The biggestslaughterer of pigs in Germany had more than 200cameras in its factories, which was an infringementon the regulation on data protection according to theregional supervision authority from North Rhine-Westphalia.

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Employees complained because the management ofTönnies was placing cameras in the cloakroom and inthe rooms used to clean themselves. “Presence ofcameras in a company dealing with a high level offood safety is acceptable but Tönnies went too far,”commented Bettina Gayk from theLandesbeauftragten für den Datenschutz Nordrhein-

Westfalen (Regional Data Protection Authority forNorth Rhine-Westphalia).

Tönnies announced that it accepted to pay the fineand that it had already reduced the number ofcameras.

FOOD SAFETYJapan to sell cloned beef and porkmeat international.com - 07 Jan 2009

The Japanese government will state that cloned beefand pork made from cloned eggs or body cells aresafe. This will permit its commercial sale this year,according to reports.

At the Japanese Food Safety Commission expertswere quoted as stating that they concluded thequality of meat and ingredients of milk from clonedcows and pigs are as safe as those of normal meat.

The commission will confirm its decision this yearand report it to the Health, Welfare and LabourMinistry. The Cabinet will have final approval.

According to reports, cloned beef and pork may beon the market this year; however concerns oversafety have risen.

The US Food and Drug Administration and theEuropean Food Safety Authority announced a yearago that meat and milk products made from clonedanimals are safe.

However, in the US, meat from cloned animals hasnot been sold on the market due to ethical andreligious reasons.

Meat sector: “Animal meal back intoanimal feed”www.meatandmeal.nl - 04-12-2008

DOETINCHEM – The meat sector wants to make theuse of animal meal for meat production a discussabletopic again. This statement was made by COVsecretary Richard van der Kruijk in specialistmagazine Meat & Meal this month (December 2008).

Sectoral organisation COV sees sufficient reasons forraising this debate again in the VROM report on theenvironmental effects of eating meat. According toclimate lobbyists, grain and soya culture for animalfeed consumes huge amounts of energy.

“It is good that policymakers and NGOs have realisedwhat one of the most important causes of thequantity of vegetable animal feed needed to produceone kilo of meat is,” said Van der Kruijk in themagazine, referring to the BSE crisis. Animalresidues have been banned from use in animal feed

since the BSE crisis, and more grain and soya havebeen used as a result.

“Instead of making over-simplified calls for less meatto be eaten, we should discuss whether animalproteins from non-risky animals such as chickens andpigs could be used in our animal feed again. Ofcourse, this would happen under strict conditions.”

French meat scandal is expandingmeatandmeal.nl - 16-09-2008

PARIS - Four well-known French meat processorsand slaughterhouses seem to be involved in the bigmeat scandal on canned meat, in which by-productswere processed.

Meat processors Charal and Soviba and meat retailerCovi were already involved. The first two aresupposed to have delivered the meat to Covi, whichthen sold the cans of corned beef. It seems now thatthe sheep slaughterhouse Arcadia South-West andAlliance subsidiary Défial are involved too. They aresuspected to have delivered by-products to Covi.

The affair started in January after inspections ofveterinary services in November 2006. Since then,about 1.2 million cans of corned beef of mutton wererecalled in France, UK, Belgium, Greece and Ireland.Last week, 26,000 tonnes of meat were seized inArcadia South-West. According to inspectors, themeat was even not suitable for feeding dogs andcats.

Big fraud with poultrymeat in Belgiummeatandmeal.nl - 09-09-2008

BRUSSELS – The Belgian ministry of justice isinvestigating a big fraud on frozen poultrymeat. Itconcerns 1,400 tonnes of poultry in 32 train wagonson their way to Ukraine.

The meat was no longer suitable for humanconsumption and had been stocked in freezers foryears. The suspects wanted to process the meatprocess in a factory in Dnepropetrosk, wherepoultrymeat would have been mixed in snacks likecurry sausages and hamburgers. The Belgianauthorities are not trying to trace back the meat. Itcould be leftover meat from the dioxin crisis. Theseized meat is now being processed to be used foranimal feed.

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VIONAgreement on Vion social planwww.meatandmeal.nl - 11-12-2008

MEPPEL – Vion and the trade unions have reached anagreement on a social plan for the employees at theabattoir in Meppel. Further strikes are off. FNVwanted to pursue matters further, but the employeesfelt that sufficient steps had been taken.

Vion accommodated the trade unions further onWednesday evening, meaning people will receive aredundancy payment that is based on their monthlyincome rather than their period income, as wasoriginally the intention. Moreover, older employeeswho have not found another job by the end of 2009will receive a one-off payment of €7,500.

FNV considered this amount too low, but the Meppelabattoir employees sided with Vion. “They want toagree to the proposals that are available now and wehave to respect this,” said trade union leader RonVos to Meatandmeal.nl. “They have travelled a longroad.”

Incidentally, Vos is somewhat disappointed about thewillingness to take action among employees in otherVion plants. FNV had plans to bring other Vion meatcompanies to a standstill. “Because there will bereorganisations there in the future too,” said Vos.“And we wanted to ensure that all of our demandsfor Meppel were granted.”

However, according to Vos, too few people backedstrikes in other Vion companies.

Vion is looking at whether it can resume productionin Meppel on Monday. “We expect to be able to doso, but nothing has been finalised yet,” said Vionspokesman Marc van der Lee. Vion transferredproduction to other plants during the strikes so itcould continue to serve its customers.

Vion is happy with recent developments. “In anycase, this provides the clarity that Meppel employeesare entitled to, the clarity they asked for. We hopewe can begin to implement the plan quickly.”

Abattoir still closed: Vion and FNVresume negotiationswww.meatandmeal.nl - 09-12-2008

MEPPEL – The Vion abattoir in Meppel remains closedthis week. The reason is the (as yet) unsuccessfulnegotiations between trade union FNV and Vionconcerning a social plan. Negotiations will resume onWednesday.

The trade union and Vion appeared to reach animpasse at the start of this week. Vionaccommodated the trade union with regard to thesub-district court judge’s formula, which wasdisputed, but the trade union found that theproposals were still too weak and considered theconsultation unsuccessful.

Demands“We want the sub-district court judge’s formula for2008 to be based on monthly income rather thanperiod income. Otherwise the employees are stilllosing out,” explained FNV trade union leader RonVos.The trade union also wants a ‘safety net’ for older

employees who lose their jobs and will find it difficultor impossible to find a new one.

ContactThe trade union once again made contact with Vionduring a members’ consultation on Monday evening.Vion said that it was still willing to discuss bothpoints. “We have high hopes that we will still reachour goal,” remarked Vos.

MeppelVion also apparently wishes to reopen the Meppelabattoir when the threats of strikes are past. “Aslong as it remains unclear whether we can achievean acceptable social plan, the situation is toouncertain for us to resume production in Meppel,”said Vion spokesman Marc van der Lee.

He nonetheless hopes to reach an agreement withthe trade unions.

Employees present Vion with anultimatumwww.meatandmeal.nl - 28-11-2008

MEPPEL - Vion Meppel employees have agreedunanimously to issue management with anultimatum. They considered the proposals made byVion to be insulting.

The Steenwijker Courant reported that there iswidespread disgust about the intimidating way inwhich older employees are being treated andthreatened with receiving social security and nothingmore.It is clear that Vion is sticking with its decision toclose the Meppel plant, which the managementbelieves does not have a future. RTV Drenthe hasannounced that the talks the municipality of Meppelheld with the management did not succeed inpersuading it to rethink its decision.

In the ultimatum, trade union FNV Bondgenoten andtrade union federation CNV are demanding aredundancy payment based on the sub-district courtjudge’s formula for 2008 rather than the 2009formula. They also want a ‘safety net’ settlement foremployees aged 55 and over who cannot workanywhere else.

They are also demanding that employees whorelocate to other plants will have costs for travelbetween home and the workplace fully reimbursedand that they will receive compensation for additionaltravel time. Moreover, there must be compensationfor employees who have worked at Vion for years butdo not appear on the payroll.

The employees unanimously decided that they willtake action if Vion does not accede to the tradeunions’ demands. Vion Meppel has approximately115 permanent employees and 51 flexitime workers.

Vion is closing another factory inGermanywww.meatandmeal.nl - 11-09-2008

HELMBRECHTS – Vion is closing another cooked porkmeat factory in Germany. This time, the decisionaffects the plant of Lutz Fleischwaren in Helmbrechts.

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The production will be relocated from 1 Octoberonwards to the Weimarer Wurstwaren factory inNohra. The plant of Lutz in Helmbrechts neededquick modernisation but the building itself is sodamaged that it was not possible to make reasonable

investments. 14 workers will lose their jobs. Lastyear, Vion already closed a plant from LutzFleischwaren, in Kulmbach. Lutz has now 3 remaininglocations: Landsberg am Lech, Hammelburg andChemnitz.

SMITHFIELDSmithfield merger favourable for meatproducts subsidiarieswww.meatandmeal.nl - 06-01-2009

LOVENDEGEM – Belgian meat products companyImperial Meat Products sees growth opportunitiesnow that its parent company Smithfield has mergedwith Spanish firm Campofrío.

As a result of the merger, Campofrío Food Group,with a turnover of €2.1 billion, is the new Europeanmarket leader in meat products. Stegeman, whichhas plants in Deventer, Sint Michielsgestel andWijhe, is also part of the group. “Groupe Smithfieldand Campofrío complement one anothergeographically, so we can primarily focus on what wecan offer one another,” said IMP director Jacxsens innewspaper De Tijd. “We can include Spanishspecialities in our range and they can take on ourBelgian pâté and salami. We can also exchangeexpertise.”

After Ter Beke, Imperial Meat is the biggest meatprocessor in Belgium.

Smithfield closes deal with Campofríomeat international.com -19 Dec 2008

This has been announced by Smithfield Foods. Thenew company will be known as Campofrío FoodGroup and will be listed on the Madrid and BarcelonaStock Exchanges. The merger creates the largestpan-European company in the packaged meatssector and one of the five largest worldwide. Thecompany is the market leader in Spain, France,Portugal and The Netherlands, and maintains animportant presence in Romania, Germany, the UnitedKingdom, Italy and Belgium.

Smithfield Foods owns 37% or approximately 37.8million shares of the new company. PreviouslySmithfield owned 24% of Campofrío and 50% ofGroupe Smithfield. Other significant shareholders areOaktree Capital (24%), Pedro and Fernando Ballve(12%), Diaz Family and Luis Serrano (5%), CajaBurgos (4%) and QMC (2%). The remaining 16% willbe held by the public.

"This is a major step in Smithfield's strategy to growand improve its global packaged meats presence.The companies have complimentary manufacturingand marketing platforms, presenting the opportunityfor value creation and synergies," said C. Larry Pope,Smithfield Foods president and chief executiveofficer.

Smithfield - Campofrío deal completewww.meatandmeal.nl - 18-12-2008

SMITHFIELD – Meat processor Smithfield hasconcluded its merger with Spanish firm Campofrío.The company will be called Campofrío Food Group.

Smithfield now owns 37 percent of the biggest meatprocessor in Spain, having previously held 24 percentof shares in the company. The merged company hasa turnover of three billion dollars. Groupe Smithfield,which owns meat products manufacturer Stegemanin the Netherlands, is a joint venture betweenSmithfield Foods and Oaktree Capital Management.This European branch of Smithfield was created in2006 through the merger of the French group JeanCaby with the meat arm of Sara Lee.

Smithfield chief sells shares to hischildrenwww.meatandmeal.nl - 11-12-2008

SMITHFIELD – Smithfield chairman of the boardJoseph W. Luther III has sold two million shares tohis four children. This sale guarantees themownership of the family property, which has aturnover of over nine billion euro. Luther’s father wasjointly involved in founding the group in 1936, and ithas since developed into one of the world’s biggestmeat processors. Luther (67), who has already beentied to the company for 31 years, sold the shares forover €4.60 each, earning €9.2 million. Luther himselfholds a further 1.6 million shares out of a total of143.6 million shares.

Smithfield Foods Inc. plant - union voteMeatinternational.com - 18 Nov 2008

Meat cutters at Smithfield Foods Inc's big pork plantin Tar Heel, North Carolina, USA will vote on 10 and11 December to see if they are to be represented bythe United Food and Commercial Workers union. Thishas been announced by the company and UFCW in ajoint statement on Monday this week. The results areto be made public immediately after the vote. It hasbeen reported that the two parties made anagreement three weeks ago to a plan, wherebyemployees at the plant would vote if they wantUFCW representation. The agreement assisted tosettle a suit filed by Smithfield against the UFCW.The consensus was also reached that the UFCW willend its public campaign against Smithfield and bothparties agreed to establish and jointly fund a ‘Feedthe Hungry’ Programme.

The Tar Heel facility has about 5,000 employees.

Smithfield and Trade Unions smoke thepeace pipemeatandmeal.nl - 29/10/2008

TAR HEEL – since its launch, the campaign in the USof the trade unions against the meat processorSmithfield Foods cost the company 660 million $.Smithfield and the trade union have signed a peaceagreement. Trade unions election can now take placefor the 4,650 workers of the Tar Heel plant where thedispute was concentrated. At the same time,

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Smithfield stopped dispute against the trade unions.Smithfield compared the negative campaign in orderto get trade unions elections to blackmailing. Inexchange, the trade unions are stopping thecampaigns which called for a boycott of theSmithfield products and created negativeadvertisements of the brand.

Smithfield’s beefmeat division goes toJBS24/10/2008-meatandmeal.nl

MILWAUKEE - Smithfield Foods definitively sold itsbeefmeat division to the Brazilian JBS following thefinal approval by the American authorities. JBS paid565 million dollars for the Smithfield Beef Group.Smithfield Beef Group is in size the fifth beefmeatproducer in the US, while JBS is in third position. Theacquisition of National Beef Packing by JBS has beenblocked by the US Ministry of Justice. Bothcompanies announced that they will try to get achange in the Ministry position. With the sale ofSmithfield Beef Group, which put an end to its

activities in beefmeat, Smithfield becomes thebiggest pigmeat producer in the US. According toLarry Pope, the company’s market share in beefmeatwas too small and it could not expect a substantialgrowth in the branch.

Jean Caby factory threatened withclosureusinenouvelle.com - 11/09/2008

On Wednesday, the Aoste group, a subsidiary ofSmithfield Foods, announced that its Jean Cabyfactory in Saint-Priest-en-Jarez (Loire) will be closingby the summer of 2009. The unit prepares cookedpork delicatessen products and employs over350 people. Production is to be transferred to theLampaul-Guimiliau, Ergué-Gabéric (Finistère) andSaint-André-Lez-Lille (Nord) sites. The managementhas given assurances that it will adopt “all measuresat its disposal to limit the social impact of this projectand provide individual assistance to all employeesconcerned”.

DANISH CROWNDanish Crown relocates boning toGermanywww.meatandmeal.nl - 18-12-2008

SKAERBAK – A portion of Danish Crown’s pigcarcasses will be boned in Germany from now on.The Agrarisch Dagblad reported that the carcasses

concerned come from the abattoir in Skaerbak.Boning will take place in Danish Crown’s Germanplants. The company is aiming to save money withthis step, as boning is less expensive in Germanythan in the Netherlands.

OTHER COMPANIESCargill's meat division acquires CarnecoFoods assetswww.meatprocess.com - 18-Dec-2008

Cargill Meat Solutions (CMS) has purchased assets ofCarneco Foods LLC, including a ground beefprocessing plant in Columbus, Nebraska. CMS said itmade the purchase, effective from 2 January 2009,to replace a plant in Booneville, Arkansas, that wasdestroyed by fire in March. CMS, through its CargillValue Added Meats (CVAM) Food Service unit, isinvolved in further-processed meats. Carneco Foods,owned by Lopez Foods, produces frozen ground beefpatties and chubs, and case-ready beef products soldto food service and retail operators. Since the fire,CMS has been considering several alternatives toreplace the lost capacity. It said the design of theCarneco Foods plant and its product mix matches thecapabilities of the Booneville facility.

Hungarian meat company purchased byconsortiumwww.meatandmeal.nl - 17-12-2008

PÁPA –Hungarian meat processor Pápai Hús Zrt.,which entered liquidation two years ago, has beensold. A consortium of investors made up ofAgroprodukt Zrt., a local water company, the district

of Pápa, employees and managers from the meatcompany and pig breeders have bought the companyfor approximately twenty million euro (following acurrency conversion). However, the consortium onlyhas to pay sixteen percent of the sale price from itsown funds as the rest is being borrowed from theHungarian Development Bank.

Danish Meat Company shuts downwww.meatandmeal.nl - 04-12-2008

VRÅ - Danish Meat Company (DMC) is shutting itsdoors and its 170 employees have been sent home.The company was only set up two years ago, due todissatisfaction with the policy pursued by the muchbigger Danish Crown. The Agrarisch Dagbladreported that according to the small amount ofinformation provided by management, the closure islinked to two associated factors: a lack of capital anda difficult trend in the meat market. In better times,the company processed some 7,000 pigs per week.

Pilgrim’s Pride (temporarily) rescuedwww.meatandmeal.nl - 27-11-2008

PITTSBURGH – Chickenmeat group Pilgrim’s Prideappears to have been rescued (temporarily) fromcollapse now that it has been assigned a third loan.

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Its existing loan was extended for the third time in abrief period. Banks are working with the companybehind the scenes in the aim of finding a solution.Pilgrim’s Pride experienced problems due to high rawmaterial prices and the credit crunch, among otherfactors. The company is also struggling with a hugeburden of debt that it may not be able to pay off. Itinvested 1.5 billion dollars in the takeover of itscompetitor Gold Kist in January. Pilgrim’s Pride hasimplemented measures to reduce costs further andthere are also restructuring plans to improve liquidityfor the longer term. However, experts still estimatethe chance of Pilgrim’s Pride collapsing at 75 percent.

Bernard Matthews lost €94 millionmeatandmeal.nl - 14/11/2008

NORFOLK – Because of the outbreak of avianinfluenza, Bernard Matthews lost about 94 millioneuro in the past. In order to reduce a debt of 80million euro, the company sold the bread/pastrydivision and its activities in New Zealand. Togetherwith other cost-cutting measures as part ofrestructuring programme, the sale helped to reducethe debt from €70 million. The turkey companyannounced a loss of €11.7 millions in its operationalresults in 2007, whereas it made a €27 million profitin 2006.

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Brussels, 18 December 2008

- To all the member organisations

Recast of the EWC Directive

Dear Colleagues,

After nearly 10 years of waiting we finally have a new EWC Directive. Yesterday,the new draft was voted for by a massive majority in the European Parliament.This morning it was accepted unanimously by the Council of Ministers. There isnow a two year period for the Member States to put it into their national laws,during which the old legislation will still apply. However, the fact that this will nowhappen and that Business Europe as well as all the national governments haveagreed these changes will surely play a powerful role in EWC negotiations in theintervening period.

Below we have provided a quick overview of the changes that have been made tothe Directive. EFFAT is working with the ETUC and the European federations ofother sectors with the intention of producing clearer more detailed explanationsand guidance in the early part of next year.

• A new definition of ‘information’ ensures that items of information aregiven “at such time, in such fashion and with such content as areappropriate to enable employees' representatives to undertake an in-depthassessment of the possible impact and, where appropriate, prepare forconsultations;

• A better definition of consultation makes it clear that EWCs should beconsulted on “proposed measures” in time for their views to be “taken intoaccount”;

• A clause in the subsidiary requirements will give EWC representatives theright to have a response with an explanation to any opinions given as theoutcome of consultation;

• A limitation restricting EWCs to transnational issues is clarified to underlinethat “these include matters which, regardless of the number of MemberStates involved, are of importance for the European workforce in terms ofthe scope of their potential effects”;

• A new ‘adaptation clause’ safeguards EWCs effected by mergers andacquisitions and give an entitlement to renegotiate agreements in theevent of structural change;

• ‘Article 13’ agreements (signed before 22 September 1996) are to remainoutside the scope of the directive unless they are allowed to come to anend, or are renegotiated under the new directive either by commonconsent or as a result of the adaptation clause;

• A new assertion in the preamble states that administrative and judicialprocedures, as well as sanctions enforcing the directive should be “effective, dissuasive and proportionate in relation to the seriousness of theoffence”;

• For the first time EWC members will be entitled to be provided withtraining without loss of wages;

• EWCs members are also to be given all the means they need to apply theirrights in the directive and be legally recognized as representatives of theEuropean employees in appropriate matters;

• Companies will be obliged to inform the relevant European trade unionorganisations about the start of new negotiations for EWCs and torecognize the role of trade union experts for SNBs;

• SNB members will be entitled to meet together before and after theirmeetings with management;

• Those responsible for appointing or electing EWC members will berequired to take gender balance into account in their deliberations;

• The entitlement to a select committee of up to 5 members has been addedto the subsidiary requirements;

• The requirement of all management boards to transmit the informationrequired for commencing negotiations to employee representatives onrequest is underlined;

• EU Member States will be obliged to have rules ensuring that informationis given to EWCs at the same time as or before national works councilsand that both levels are properly informed and consulted;

• EWC members will be required to communicate with other levels ofrepresentation;

• New agreements will be required to have arrangements for renegotiationand termination;

• Another review of the Directive is scheduled to take place 5 years aftertransposition.

Of course, there are a number of other improvements we would like to havemade but under the difficult circumstances in which this revision was achieved weare pleased with the outcome. We believe that if we use the new directiveproperly it could lead to significant improvements in the effectiveness of manyEWCs in EFFAT sectors.

Yours fraternally,

Harald WIEDENHOFER, SimonCOX,Secretary-General EWC/TNCCoordinator