Welcome to Europatat!
Welcome on the Europatat website...
Europatat, the Union of the European Potato Trade, gathers national potato trade associations and private companies from all over Europe.
This new website enables the professional seed and ware potato merchants to get intensively involved into potato trade issues.
News
New Europatat secretary general starting today
As previously announced the Europatat meeting of the general assembly in Edinburgh has recently approved a number of decisions allowing this union of the European potato trade to become more than ever the voice of this important European sector.
As such new statutes have been approved, giving the union the status of an international non profit association according to Belgian law, a new board has been installed composed out of Kees van Arendonk (NL) - president and Thomas Herckenrath (D) and Didier Binst (B).
The most innovating part is the important role of the different commissions which have been set up (seed / early / ware potatoes, prepackers, RUCIP, technical and regulatory commission).
In order to have a maximum collaboration between Europatat and the trade companies, apart from national associations also companies can apply for membership. The first group of new direct members have been registered already.
In order to coordinate the activities in the 'new Europatat' structure, Frédéric Rosseneu has been selected as new secretary general. He has been active within Freshfel and his appointment allows Europatat to work with a secretariat which is independent from any national association.
The new Europatat secretariat can be contacted at :
Seat and offices
Av. De Broqueville 272 bte 4
1200 Brussels
Belgium
T +32 2 777.15.85
F +32 2 777.15.86
E secretariat@europatat.eu
