Working groups
Presentation of working groups:
Market issues - Contact conditions, Environmental issues, Development bagasse pricing, Evironmental regulator regime.
Markets issue
EU sugar market supply (WG#1): WG gathering EU, ACP and LDC growers, all connected through the EU sugar market. Assessment of EU market supply, flows and prices. Supported by a publication from the secretariat.
- Co Chairman: Otto von Arnold, Sweden
- Co Chairman: Mauritius (Name to be precised later)
Contract conditions
Associated British Foods growers (WG#2): WG gathering all growers delivering their beet/cane to Associated British Foods subsidiaries (British Sugar and Illovo). Possibility of comparing contracts conditions and to reach a joint communication towards ABF.
- Co Chairman: David Wayne, South Africa
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Co Chairman: William Martin, UK
Environmental issues
Bioenergy (WG#4): To create a common policy between WABCG members regarding Bioenergy and enhance communication towards international organisations on this specific issue.
- Co Chairman: Alain Jeanroy, France
- Co Chairman: Christina Pacheco, Brazil
Bagasse pricing (WG#3)
WG dedicated to the bagasse pricing issue. To compare different ways of bagasse pricing and try to establish common methods.
- Chairman: Tim Murray, South Africa
Environmental regulatory regime (WG#5)
To compare/comment on the environmental regulatory regimes and voluntary adoption systems being used across members.
- Co Chairman: Jurgen Winter, Germany
- Co Chairman: Ian Ballantyne, Australia
Development issues
Agricord sub-group (WG#6): to monitor and promote the WABCG AGRICORD programme.
- Chairman: George Mlingwa, Tanzania