Among them you will find the Swedish furniture company IKEA; the American banana company Chiquita; the German pencil manufacturers Faber-Castell and Staedler; oil companies in Norway (Statoil), Italy (ENI) and Russia (Loukoil); car manufacturers in Germany and France such as Volkswagen, Daimler-Chrysler, Renault and Peugeot-Citroën; the Spanish and French electricity producers Endesa and EDF; Telecommunications companies in Spain (Telefonica) and Greece (OTE) and retailers in France (Carrefour) and Sweden (H&M). In recent years, the number of global framework agreements has increased in sectors that employ large numbers of women. Global unions recognise that ENGIE recognises the key role played by trade unions and social dialogue in the current crisis in ensuring the long-term sustainability of the company and the health, safety and well-being of its employees. Following the signing in January 2018 of the Global Framework Agreement (GFA) between Finnish renewable materials multinational Stora Enso, IndustriALL, BWI and UNI Global Unions, the social partners held the first biennial meeting of the Agreement Implementation and Review Committee on 3 June in Helsinki. The ILO notes that the number of OF OFAs signed between 2000 and 2016 compared to the previous year increased to 115 agreements in 2016. The European Commission has created a database containing transnational company agreements, including OFAs and ESAs, which indicates that another 10 OFAs were concluded in 2017 and 8 in 2018. . .