The triennial General Assembly of FECCIA, the European Federation of Managers in the Chemical and Allied Industries, was held in Paris on 21 October 2000. It conducted a general overview of the economic and social situation, noting in particular these points :

• The increase of companies growth and productivity shows the overall strength of chemical and allied industries in Europe. FECCIA therefore calls upon enterprises to reward wage-earners and especially managers, by increased salary income.
• FECCIA asserts that economic decisions are excessively driven by the returns on the shareholders investments, and that dividends should not be distributed to the prejudice of wage-earners.
• FECCIA established a task force that will report at the next meeting on the effects of stock options on remuneration and retirement pensions.
• FECCIA commends the strengthening of the expression of the European Managers viewpoint through National Confederations and in CEC, the European Confederation of Executives and Managerial Staff.
• FECCIA reaffirms that negotiations on European Work Councils should take place only under the auspices of a genuinely European mode of thought and representation.
• FECCIA resolved to publicise, through the national press and on the web-sites of member federations, the steps taken by FCC (the French Federation of chemical Managers) and C.F.E-CGC (the French Confederation of Managers) that have referred the French "Aubry II" Law to the European Court of Human Rights. This law has reduced the working time (35h), but has instituted an effective discrimination between managers and all other wage-earners by removing from executives and managers the protection granted by French labour laws...

FECCIA re-elected the following Officers :

President : François Vincent (France FCC),

General Secretary : G. von Bredow (Germany VAA),

Treasurer : Andrew Taylor (Great Britain AMPS)