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CEBP ensures through its work that the European Bakery and Confectionery enterprises are heard in the European Commission and Parliament.
CEBP is responsible for communicating relevant information from the European Commission and Parliament to its members and for advocating common interests of the represented enterprises in the EUuropean Commission and Parliament.
CEPB obligates itself in the political work to interfere in the legislation and to influence the economic environment of the small and medium-sized enterprises of the Bakery and Confectionary craft.

CEPB inform members of the work of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). EFSA is the keystone of the EU to risk assessment regarding food and feed safety. Read more about food safety – insert link (http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en.html)

CEBP supports their members by informing the small- and medium-sized enterprises about the EU regulative concerning the addition of vitamins and minerals as well as certain other substances to food
White bread is still one of the least nutritious breads because the flour had been processed to the point where the germ - the most nutritious part - is nearly gone which is why most bread is enriched with vitamins.
With all the nutrients from the wheat left intact, whole wheat bread is truly a life-sustaining loaf. Whole wheat bread provides almost all of the natural vitamins and minerals in wheat, including niacin, riboflavin, thiamine, vitamin E, iron, and calcium. It also contains dietary fibre.

CEBP advises members about the certain production standards concerning organic food. The European Union’s regulative set the standards for all organic food. The ingredients from which the Bakers and Confectioners produce organic food are grown following the EU regulative for organic food.
In most countries, organic produce must not be genetically modified.

Food and Feed are generally derived from plants and animals which have been grown and bred by humans for several thousand years. Over time, these plants and animals have undergone substantial genetic changes as those individuals with the most desirable characteristics for food and feed were chosen for breeding the next generation.
Recently, it has become possible to modify the genetic material of living cells and organisms using techniques of modern gene technology. Organisms, such as plants and animals, whose genetic material (DNA) has been altered in such way are called genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
GMOs are organisms such as plants, animals and micro-organisms (bacteria, viruses, etc.), the genetic characteristics of which have been modified artificially in order to give them a new property (a plant's resistance to a disease or insect, improvement of a food's quality or nutritional value, increased crop productivity, a plant's tolerance of a herbicide, etc.). In order to ensure this development of modern biotechnology, and more specifically the development of GMOs, takes place in complete safety, the EU has established a legal framework comprising various acts.