[1] The organisation represents the interests of more than 10,000 breweries in 29 European countries, employing more than 200,000 people and producing around 40 billion litres of beer per year.
Founded in 1947, the European Brewery Convention (EBC) is the scientific and technological arm of The Brewers of Europe, defining itself in terms of "facilitating knowledge creation, transfer and collaboration among partners, beer producers and academic organisations, for the benefit of the brewing sector, consumers and the community."
By promoting its interests and advising the EU institutions and international organisations on all aspects of policy and legislation affecting the brewing sector, The Brewers of Europe is thus able to inform the European and international institutions of its special needs and to ensure that legislative initiatives take the sector’s requirements into consideration.
The organisation represents the interests of the roughly 10000 brewers across Europe Archived 2023-04-12 at the Wayback Machine, the vast majority are small and medium-sized, local and family-run establishments.
In addition, the organisation seeks to represent and defend the interests of those 2 million people across Europe whose jobs are due to beer Archived 2023-04-12 at the Wayback Machine.