Europe numbers one million agricultural employers who provide work to over 7 million workers. With 15 million farm holdings, in which over 40 million people work, the agriculture sector makes a vital contribution to healthy nutrition, and still plays a key role in the economic, environmental and social policies in Europe. EFFAT activities in the agriculture sector include promoting a sustainable Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), safeguarding employment and fair pay in rural areas, and further developing social dialogue in order to improve working conditions in this sector.
Political Secretary: Arnd Spahn – a.spahn@effat.org
President: Valentina Vasilyonova (FNSZ, Bulgaria)
Vice Presidents: Emilio Térron Ruiz (FICA-UGT, Spain) & Riikka Vasama (TEOLLISUUSLIITTO, Finland)
Brussels 31 May 2023: On occasion of the EFFAT conference Mobile and Migrant Workers: What’s the Road Ahead for their protection in Europe? EFFAT reiterates its call for a new inclusive EU vision on labour mobility and migration and calls for a EU binding initiative...
The expert report "Digitalisation and vocational training in agriculture" aims to provide useful information on the state of digitalisation in agriculture. Produced by the Forum Social Innovation (FSI) on behalf of EFFAT, the report includes information on the impact...
The evidence that the consequences of climate change are severe and potentially catastrophic, is not questionable. We are on a dangerous path which may lead to irreversible changes in Earth's climate systems. Reverting this trend is vital for our planet, for future...
A new summer harvesting season is just starting. Thousands of mobile, seasonal and migrant workers will be heading to the European fields, providing food for all of us. However, while they carry out essential work many of them will be lacking crucial information on...
European social partners in agriculture EFFAT and GEOPA-COPA, representing the interests of workers and employers in the sector, spoke with one voice on the need to work together towards the ratification of the ILO Convention 184 on safety and health in agriculture...
Political resistance against sustainable food policies is threatening to derail the process for an EU Sustainable Food Systems Law. Against this backdrop, EFFAT along with other 285 organisations have issued an open letter urging European Commission President Ursula...
EFFAT, together with industriAll Europe and European Federation of Building and Woodworkers (EFBWW), has adopted a joint position on the new EU Forestry Strategy for 2030. With this position, the trade union federations aim to present a set of common trade union...
EFFAT proposes proportionate and effective sanctioning system to leverage social conditionality's full potential In 2023 Austria, France and Italy will voluntarily introduce Social Conditionality into the new Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) which, as of 2025, will be...
To protect Europeans’ health and the environment, the EU has banned or severely restricted the use of many hazardous chemicals. Furthermore, this European Commission and its commitment in the Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability to protect people’s health and the...
Commission sets ambitious reduction targets but more needed to ensure agri-workers' health and safety protection With a three-month delay, the European Commission has finally released its proposals for the Regulation on the sustainable use of plant protection products...
