Cooperation Partners

	BirdLife International is a global Partnership of non-governmental conservation organisations that strives to conserve birds, their habitats and global biodiversity, working with people towards sustainability in the use of natural resources. BirdLife’s work aims at preventing extinction and maintaining the status of bird species, and conserving and improving the quality of sites and habitats for birds. It also aims at integrating bird conservation into sustaining people’s livelihoods. BirdLife has national partner organisations in more than 100 countries and territories worldwide, including all 27 EU Member states. The decline of farmland birds has been identified as one of the key conservation problems in Europe and BirdLife has been working for sustainable farming, including a long term engagement in the CAP reform campaign. Recently, BirdLife International presented its new vision on the future of the Common Agricultural Policy. For more information please visit our website europe.birdlife.org
	CEJA, the European Council of Young Farmers, is gathering young farmers on a European level and is considered one of the key advocates for the agricultural sector. This non-profit organisation has, at present, 26 member organisations and one observer member from 21 different European countries, representing around one million young farmers. Its main objectives are to ease installation of young farmers in Europe, to inform, train and represent them, to act as a forum for communication and dialogue between young farmers and to sensitize European citizens to farming-related issues. CEJA maintains regular contact with European institutions, European decision-makers as well as organizations dealing with agriculture or young people and takes part in 18 Agricultural Advisory Committees of the European Commission. CEJA’s role is to examine the overall problems of young farmers and to seek solutions that represent the common interests of its members. One of its main activities is the organization of at least four seminars every year on particular subjects related to young farmers or linked to the future of agriculture. These seminars allow young farm leaders from all over Europe to stay informed about the latest developments of the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union and to share experiences and opinions with European decision makers, experts, different stakeholders and civil society on how agricultural policy should be developed in order to meet the needs of the young generation. CEJA does not represent and does not depend on any political ideology and gathers a broad variety of young farmers and rural youth members. For more information on CEJA please visit our website http://www.ceja.org/.
	EFFAT is the European Federation of Trade Unions in the Food, Agriculture and Tourism sectors resulting from the merger concluded between two European trade union federations, the ECF-IUF and EFA, on 11 December 2000. As a European Federation representing 120 national trade unions from 35 European countries, EFFAT defends the interests of more than 2.6 million members towards the European Institutions, European industrial federations and enterprise management. EFFAT is an autonomous European trade union federation. As a member of the ETUC, EFFAT is promoting the members' interests jointly and with strength regarding all the European interprofessional issues. As the regional organisation within the IUF, EFFAT is defending the members' interests world-and sectoral-wide. In recent years EFFAT has set up European Works Councils in more than 100 transnational groups and has a successful social dialogue under way in, among others, the agriculture, hotel & restaurant, contract catering, sugar and tobacco sectors. EFFAT supports its member organisations in Central and Eastern Europe in building up free and strong trade unions. For quite a time EFFAT has given its support to a sustainable development of the agrofood- and tourism policy in which ethnical, social and ecological aspects are considered. Only safe and high quality food can also guarantee safe jobs and working conditions. For more information please visit our website http://www.effat.org/