EFFAT is the European Federation of Trade Unions in the Food, Agriculture and Tourism sectors resulting from the merger concluded between two European trade union federations, the ECF-IUF and EFA, on 11 December 2000.

As a European Federation representing 120 national trade unions from 35 European countries, EFFAT defends the interests of more than 2.

6 million members towards the European Institutions, European industrial federations and enterprise management