More than 50 representatives of the European industry of the arid look for solutions in Galicia

The Galician administrative capital has served like this of stage for these forums of work and debate on the present and the future of the European sector of the arid, that have gathered to technicians and representatives of the 31 integrated cheese cheese associations in the UEPG.

The arid are sands tax and rocks trituradas with destination to the construction and to numerous industrial uses. In Europe, consume near of 3.000 million annual tonnes in some 26.000 quarries and graveras that give employment to some 250.000 direct workers. They are the second prime matter more consumed by the man, after the water: each European citizen consumes every year 5.800 kilograms, this is 16 daily kilograms.

In concrete, the Thursday, 7 March, celebrated the meetings of the Committees of Health and hygiene, chaired by Martin Isles, of the United Kingdom, and in which it is vice-president César Luaces Frades (general director of the FdA), and of Environingingment, headed by François Petry, representative of France.

By his part, along the day of the Friday 8 developed the meetings of the Technical Committees, under the presidency of the Belgian Jean-Marc Vanbelle, and Economic, coordinated by Hans-Peter Braus, of Germany.

The commitment of the European sector with the sustainable development, with the hygiene and health of the workers and with the development of products of greater quality form part of the guidelines of work of this industry extractiva, the one of greater importance in Europe, still in the context of economic crisis in which they see wrapped miscellaneous of the countries of the Union.

UEPG Is acronym of ‘Union Européenne of Producers of Granulats'. From 1987, the UEPG has promoted the interests of the European industry of the arid representing to his members around the economic rights, technicians, of health, hygiene and environingingment of the community politics.