Przetwórstwo spożywcze w Polsce na tle krajów Unii Europejskiej

The aim of the article is to present the position of the Polish food processing sector in the context of food processing in the European Union countries and to present the food processing in Poland against the whole industry production. The execution of the subject in question started with the literature studies of national and international positions. In the empirical part the data published by the European Statistical Office EUROSTAT and the Central Statistical Office of Poland (GUS) were used. The share of the sold food industry production in the total value of the sold industrial production was used to illustrate the position of the food processing sector. Taking into account the total value of sold production in the European Union countries in 2016, Poland was among the leaders of the member states, occupying the sixth position. With the share of 4% it was placed after Germany, Italy, France, Great Britain and Spain. The comparisons are for the years 2015 and 2016.