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On 23-25 June, the ADAPT consortium held a Network Meeting of all project partners in Wageningen, the Netherlands. The meeting lasted for three days. During the first two days, all project partners made presentations on the progress made under each work package. Every...

On 30 May 2022, the Europatat membership gathered in Dublin approved a new vision and mission for Europatat, as well as the key fields of action and priorities for the next three years (2022-2025) to achieve progress in all of the major objectives of the Association....

June has marked the end of Europatat’s Presidency for Mr Gilles Fontaine, who joined Europatat’s Board in 2014 as Treasurer and became President in 2018. Through these years, he has played an outstanding role in shaping Europatat for what it is today. The entire...

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. This...

Europatat, the European Potato Trade Association, has celebrated today in Dublin (Ireland) its first physical General Assembly meeting since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. Europatat’s members have elected a new Board to lead the association for the coming...

On 5 and 6 April, Europatat travelled to Berlin (Germany) to attend Fruit Logistica 2022, the world’s leading international trade fair for fresh fruit and vegetables with exhibitors from more than 80 countries. Europatat used this occasion to meet with several of its...

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. This...

Today the European Parliament’s Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development held an “Exchange of views on the disruption in the EU-GB trade in seed potatoes" to which Europatat was invited to speak. Europatat used this opportunity to highlight the impact of there...

Europatat warmly welcomes Patatas Conde, a potato family business located right in the heart of the Protected Geographical Indication (IGP) “Pataca de Galicia”. The company took its first steps in the 70's with a small potato warehouse in the city of Ourense. Some...

In 2022 Europatat is celebrating its 70th Anniversary. The “European Union for the Wholesale Trade in Potatoes” was established on 12 January 1952 in Paris, including members from Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Switzerland. Seventy years...