Areas of competence include:

- Agriculture, life stock management
  and viticulture
- Automotive and supply chain
- Banking and finance
- Brewing trade
- Chemical industry
- Energy
- Environmental technology
- Fashion and textiles
- Fishing

- Food and gastronomy
- Hydraulics and pneumatics
- Insurance
- IT
- Lighting technology
- Market and consumer research
- Mechanical engineering
- Medicine/ dentistry/ pharmaceuticals
- Metal processing
- Plumbing and heating

- Politics
- Print and media (movies + TV)
- Public and administrative law
- Social dialogue, European Works
  Councils, conversions to SEs,
  trade union meetings
- Sports
- Supervisory board meetings
- Transport
- Waste and water management