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Europatat welcomes the Polish Seed Trade Association as new member
Europatat warmly welcomes the Polish Seed Trade Association – PIN – , the only chamber of commerce in the seed industry in Poland. The origins of the formation date back to the 90s of the twentieth century, and currently there are 95 national and foreign affiliates,...
Europatat participates in a new Horizon Europe project to protect potato plants against emerging new pests
Europatat is proud to become an active partner of a new EU Horizon Europe project called PATAFEST that aims at protecting potato plants by means of pest spreading and resistance characterisation, pre-harvest treatments, and post-harvest solutions. PATAFEST project was...
Europatat Congress 2023: A successful event for the European potato sector!
On 5 and 6 June the European potato community gathered for the Europatat Congress 2023 in Gdansk, Poland. Under the slogan “The Changing Geopolitical Landscape and the Future for Potato Trade”, the first-time ever Polish edition of Europatat’s annual event focused on...
Europatat Congress 2023 – Food expert and Top Chef jury Grzegorz Łapanowski is now confirmed as keynote speaker!
The organisers of the Europatat Congress 2023, the Polish Potato Federation and Europatat, are excited to announce that Grzegorz Łapanowski, food expert, culinary journalist and creative chef, will give a keynote speech on 6 June during the public session of...
ADAPT news: Early signaling events in response to environmental stress
The Horizon 2020 EU project Accelerated Development of multiple-stress tolerAnt PoTato (ADAPT), in which Europatat is participating, aims to elucidate potato tolerance to single and combined abiotic stresses, and to develop new strategies for potato improvement. Small...
Joint statement: Safeguarding the Internal Market Legal Basis of PPWR to obtain best possible outcomes
Europatat has joined other 120 European associations linked to the packaging supply chain in a common statement urging co-legislators to preserve in its entirety the internal market legal basis of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR), as the best way to...
Europatat Congress 2023 – Main speakers confirmed!
On 6 June 2023, under the slogan “The Changing Geopolitical Landscape and the Future for Potato Trade”, the first-time ever Polish edition of the Europatat Congress will focus on the impact of current geopolitics for international agri-food trade and on the effect of...
“Potatoes, prepare to be surprised” campaign will keep promoting potatoes’ versatility among millennials until end of 2025.
Following the success of the promotion campaign “Potatoes, prepare to be surprised – Europe’s favourite since 1536” that was launched in 2020 and finished at the end of last year, Bord Bia, Europatat and VLAM will continue with the programme’s activities for three...
The potato breeder LIND joins Europatat
Europatat warmly welcomes the Polish company LIND, which was established in 1996 as an investment of a Scottish family-run agricultural business with generations experience in the production of high-grade seed potatoes – J&WF Lind, located in Aberdeenshire,...
Joint Statement: Efforts for more sustainable packaging for the fruit and vegetables sector should be based on realistic, fair, and feasible targets for real environmental impact reduction
Copa-Cogeca, Freshfel Europe, the European Fresh Produce Association, and Europatat, the European Potato Trade Association, have taken note of the European Commission’s proposal for a Regulation on Packaging and Packaging Waste that was published on 30 November 2022,...