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CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT ON FRUIT AND VEGETABLES FOR PROCESSING Climate change has become a very serious concern for the fruit and vegetable processing sector, as several consecutive years of extreme ...

From left to right: Mr M. Mayntz (PROFEL President), Mrs A. Rutsaert (PROFEL Secretary-General), Ms S. Selandari (PROFEL Regulatory Affairs Manager), Mr JB. Bonduelle (PROFEL Vice-President Vegeta...

Please see attached a Press Release issued after the Profel Conference entitled: Preserved Vegetables: the ultimate solution to food waste? that took place in Brussels on 23rd Apri...

At its General Assembly end of June 2013 in Madrid, Spain, PROFEL re-elected Mr. Jean-Bernard Bonduelle as its President for the coming 2 years. Mr. Jean-Bernard Bonduelle is Director External Relatio...

European vegetable canners and freezers in major producing countries are concerned over this year’s spring crops: excessive rain in the South and cold weather and a late spring in the North have res...

On April 25 th, the European vegetable processing industry met in Brussels for their 8th conference entitled: Innovation and Communication: How to bring our better products to the consumer.

Scope of the Scheme Of the different policy options proposed, the idea of merging the SFS and the School Milk Scheme would be to the detriment of an improved and more focused SFS. The two schemes and ...

PROFEL Fruit Processors are disappointed at today's EP vote to prolong the sugar quota regime until 2020: “This is a missed chance for liberalisation of the EU sugar market. Prolonging the outdat...

European vegetable canners and freezers in major producing countries report shortages for peas and beans – two key crops for the sector. While the pea crop for important producing areas in Belgiu...

Apple processors inside PROFEL describe the current market situation as difficult. Growers predict that overall apple volumes could be 20-30% down on forecasts in some countries, with some varieties s...

Please find here the pledge by European Young Farmers CEJA who launched a campaign to create a large coalition that calls for specific measures in the new CAP to address the issue of an aging farm pop...

"The European Parliament's Agricultural Committee yesterday missed a chance to introduce a level playing field in the sugar market ", say PROFEL, the voice of the European Fruit and Vegetable Processo...

The fruit processing companies inside PROFEL1 feel the serious impact on their businesses as a result of the high sugar prices and supply shortages on the EU market during the 2010/2011 marketing year...

PROFEL held its first Parliamentary evening on 29th November at the Stanhope hotel in Brussels. The networking dinner was organised as a first step to present the fruit and vegetable processi...