SLOVAK ASSOCIATION OF SUGAR PRODUCERS AND ITS INFLUENCE ON SLOVAK SUGAR PRODUCTION ATER YEAR 1989

This article describes the modern history of the Slovak Association of Sugar Producers that dates since year 1990. The Association was established as a response to the development of the sugar market after year 1989, which was influenced by many factors, when it came to distinctive changes in the political system, system of the state management, same as in the entrepreneurial environment. Those changes subsequently required the establishment of the institution able to support and obtain a brief from the sugar producers at home. The gradually growing pressure on the administration of the operations and activities lead to professionalization of the sugar industry association since year 1998. During this short history, Slovak sugar industry went through fundamental changes, such as division of Czechoslovakia, implementation of certain protective measures on the sugar market, changes of the legal system, entering the EU, destructuralization of the sugar industry of EU. The stated destructuralization brought the need for the transformation of the regulations and provisions into the conditions of SR, on which the sugar industry association took part together with the association of the sugar beet cultivators SR and state organs. A plumbless part of the activity takes the participation with the foreign partners and international institutions.