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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
Europatat elects Kees van Arendonk as new president
The Europatat general assembly has unanimously elected Mr. Kees van Arendonk (NL) as successor of Mr. Joop Stet to chair the European union of the potato trade for the next 2 years.
He is the actual president of the Europatat 2010 working group, which will draft a proposal to enlarge the Europatat activity scope and the secretariat.
During the Europatat congress the seed and consumption commissions discussed a number of important trade issues while the RUCIP commission has been made progress in the revision of the RUCIP 2006 rules.
The tradional Europatat workshop, organised in collaboration with the French hosts Fedepom focused on the variety registration and use of farm saved seed, the revision of the European plant health policy, the need for generic promotion for potatoes and the availability of credit insurances.
The next Europatat congress is scheduled from 27 till 29 May 2010 in Edinburgh (Scotland).
