(Press)

Cogeca, Euro Coop highlight fair practices to improve relations along food supply chain

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 10:00:37 GMT

BRUSSELS, 24 April 2012 - At yesterday’s high level conference “Cooperatives Working Towards a Fair and Competitive Food Supply Chain” organised by Cogeca and Euro Coop in Brussels, participants highlighted the benefits of the set of fair practices recently agreed to by all actors along the food chain, including farmers, agri-cooperatives, traders, food industry, consumer cooperatives and other retailers.

Euro Coop creates database of national co-operative legislation

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 23:00:00 GMT

Euro Coop creates database of national co-operative legislation

BRUSSELS, 1 March 2012 – Euro Coop, the European Community of Consumer Co-operatives, released yesterday a database regrouping the legislation governing consumer co-operatives in seventeen European countries.

Parliament’s resolution on imbalances of food chain is simplistic, undermines work in progress

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:51:23 GMT

Parliament’s resolution on imbalances of food chain is simplistic, undermines work in progress

BRUSSELS, 20 January 2012 – The resolution voted yesterday by the European Parliament (EP) on the imbalances of the food chain takes a unilateral approach to the question of (un)fair relationships among food operators and seriously undermines the work done so far by the actors of the food chain, including Euro Coop, the European Community of Consumer Co-operatives.

Euro Coop praises EP plenary adoption of food waste report

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:47:17 GMT

Euro Coop praises EP plenary adoption of food waste report

BRUSSELS, 19 January 2012 – Euro Coop applauded the European Parliament for today’s adoption of the report “How to avoid food wastage...

Euro Coop celebrates European launch of International Year of Cooperatives

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:00:00 GMT

Euro Coop celebrates European launch of International Year of Cooperatives

BRUSSELS, 12 January 2012 – Euro Coop, the European Community of Consumer Co-operatives, kicked off 2012 at a joint press conference on 12 January launching the United Nations International Year of Cooperatives (IYC) in Europe.

Euro Coop report advises co-operatives on successful mergers, acquisitions

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 09:56:26 GMT

Euro Coop report advises co-operatives on successful mergers, acquisitions

BRUSSELS, 18 January 2012 - Euro Coop, the European Community of Consumer Co-operatives, released a report today about mergers and acquisitions from the perspective of consumer co-operatives.

European consumer co-operatives renew commitment to combat climate change

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:58:28 GMT

European consumer co-operatives renew commitment to combat climate change

BRUSSELS, 1 December 2011 – Euro Coop, the European Community of Consumer Co-operatives, released today the 2011 report on its project “Climate Change...

B2B relationship - Fair principles in the food chain

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:00:17 GMT

Core principles on fair business relations agreed by food supply chain stakeholders, welcomed by the High Level Forum on a better functioning food supply chain

Next objective is to ensure a rapid and effective implementation of these principles,...

Euro Coop welcomes the European Parliament’s position for a fairer retail market

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 15:11:40 GMT

Euro Coop welcomes the European Parliament’s position for a fairer retail market

Brussels, 06 July 2011 - European consumer cooperatives welcome the endorsement of the Corazza Bildt report on the retail market by the European Parliament yesterday.

Euro Coop regrets deletion of provisions on mandatory front of pack

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 15:11:27 GMT

Euro Coop regrets deletion of provisions on mandatory front of pack

Brussels, 19 April 2011 - Euro Coop strongly regrets the vote in the ENVI Committee today which rejected the amendments establishing the mandatory indication of the five key nutrients (salt, sugar, fat, saturated fats and energy content) on the front of pack.