www.ceep.org

CEEP, whose origins go back to 1961, is an international association consisting of all companies or organizations with public participation or which carry out activities of general economic interest, whatever their legal or ownership status.

www.ces.eu.int

The CES is an advisory body that gives Europe's economic and social partners (its employers, trade unions, representatives of small businesses, farmers' associations, consumers and the professions, to name but a few) the chance to issue their formal opinion on EU policies and thus give them a dimension that is both pragmatic and consensual.

www.etuc.org

The process of European integration, including recent developments such as the single Market and Economic and Monetary Union, is fundamentally changing the setting in which European Trade Unions operate. This integrated economic area must be matched by a social and collective bargaining dimension which can safeguard and promote workers’ rights and to achieve this, trade unions must be capable of speaking with a single voice at a European level. This is the challenge which the European Trade Union Confederation has taken up.