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17 agri-food stakeholders (including Europatat) have co-signed a joint open letter stressing the potential impact of the current proposal on Sustainable Use of Plant Protection Products Regulation (“SUR”) on the EU agricultural value chain, considering the current...

Europatat, together with other 26 agri-food value chain partners, has sent a letter to the Commission welcoming the plans for an Initiative on New Genomic Techniques (NGTs) and supporting the proposal for an enabling regulatory framework. Given that discussions on the...

The Horizon 2020 EU project Accelerated Development of multiple-stress tolerAnt PoTato (ADAPT), in which Europatat is participating, aims at developing new strategies to make potatoes fit for the challenging growth conditions of the future. Similarly, variety testing...

On 7 and 8 September, Europatat travelled to Germany to attend PotatoEurope Germany 2022 at the Rittergut Bockerode in Springe-Mittelrode (near Hanover). After a forced break due to Covid-19, the event was once again a successful meeting place for potato professionals...

On 1st of August, Europatat relocated its offices to a new building that will answer better to the needs of the association following the adoption of a new Strategy for the period 2022-2025. The new office is located on the third floor of Rue des Deux Eglises 26 in...

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...