Animal Task Force
Acronym: ATF
General Information
Identification Code: 398736910798-22
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Entity Form: Organisation
Registration Category: Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
Registration Date: 3/12/2013
Last Update: 5/31/2024
EP Accredited Number: 0
Mission & Interests
Goals: The Animal Task Force promotes a sustainable and competitive livestock sector in Europe. We are a knowledge-based organisation working on the forefront of livestock related issues. Our members are representatives from knowledge providers, industry organisations & farmers' organisations and have expertise of every aspect within the livestock value chain; from feeding & breeding to production & processing. We aim to create an integrated approach that is needed to contribute to the environmental & societal challenges our mission involves.
Our goals are:
- to stress the importance of sustainable livestock production for Europe’s future, promote a positive image of the entire sector;
- to act as the leading body of expertise on livestock production, be recognised as such by European institutions, policymakers & industry;
- to set a joint European research agenda for the livestock sector;
- to provide informed commentary and start a dialogie with EU Directorates on priorities for R&D
Interests Represented: Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Interests:
- Agriculture and rural development
- Climate action
- Energy
- Enlargement
- Environment
- Food safety
- International co-operation and development
- Maritime affairs and fisheries
- Regional policy
- Research and innovation
Levels of Interest:
- european
Activities
Main EU Legislative Proposals: Horizon2020 research and innovation programmes
Era-Nets
European Innovation Partnership for sustainable agriculture
FACCE-JPI
Common Agricultural Policy
Bioeconomy strategy for Europe
SCAR Standing Committee on Agricultural Research
Farm to Fork
Green Deal
Horizon Europe research and innovation programmes
Communication Activities: - Animal Task Force White Paper 2013
- 1rst Addendum to the ATF White paper, Nov. 2014
- Animal Task Force 2nd White Paper 2016
- ATF Vision Paper, January 2019
- ATF-Plants for the Future ETP joint Position Paper, Sept. 2019
- ATF-Plants for the Future ETP Policy Brief, April 2020
- European Technology Platforms representing the Agri & Aqua Food sector call for a more ambitious budget for Horizon Europe, July 2020
- ATF Strategic Research & Innovation Agenda, April 2021
- ATF Policy Brief on What livestock has to offer to biodiversity and healthy soils, Nov.2021
- ATF Policy Brief on Agricultural Methane, July 2023
Events:
- EAAP-ATF Special Session, Tallinn, Estonia, Aug. 28th, 2017
- Animal Task Force 7th seminar, Brussels, Oct.26th, 2017
- EAAP-ATF Special Session, Dubrovnik, Croatia, Aug. 27th, 2018
- Animal Task Force 8th Seminar, Brussels, Nov. 7th, 2018
- ATF-EAAP Special Session, Ghent, Belgium, Aug. 26th, 2019
- 9th ATF Seminar, Brussels, Nov. 6th, 2019
- Fitter Livestock Farming workshop, Brussels, Belgium, Nov. 6th, 2019
- ATF-Plants for the Future ETP webinar, Nov. 4th, 2020
- ATF-EAAP Special Session, remote meeting, Dec. 1st, 2020
- 10th ATF Seminar, remote meeting, April 21st, 2021
- 1st one-day symposium co-organised by ATF and the EAAP Commission on Livestock Farming Systems, Davos, Switzerland + remotely, Aug. 30th, 2021
- 11th ATF Seminar, Brussels, Belgium + remotely, Nov.18th, 2021
- ATF-FEFAC-H2020 projects stakeholder event, Brussels, Belgium + remotely, Nov.18th, 2021
- 2nd one-day symposium co-organised by ATF and the EAAP Commission on Livestock Farming Systems, Porto, Portugal, Sept. 5h, 2022
- 12th ATF Seminar, Brussels, Nov.17th, 2022
- ATF-BAMST symposium: "The role of meat in society: presenting the Dublin Declaration of Scientists", Brussels, April 12th, 2023
- 3rd one-day symposium co-organised by ATF and the EAAP Commission on Livestock Farming Systems, Lyon, France, Aug.28th, 2023
- 13th ATF Seminar, Brussels, Nov.15th, 2023
- 4th one-day symposium co-organised by ATF and the EAAP Commission on Livestock Farming Systems, Florence, Italy, Sept.1st, 2024
- 14th ATF Seminar, Brussels, Nov.20h, 2024
For past events, see our website: www.animaltaskforce.eu
Inter-institutional or Unofficial Groupings: N/A
Head Office
Address: 149 rue de Bercy
Post Code: 75012
City: Paris
Country: FRANCE
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EU Office
Address: Rue de Trèves 61
Post Code: 1040
City: Brussels
Country: BELGIUM
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Financial Data
New Organisation: false
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Membership Information
Members10 Percent: 0
Members25 Percent: 4
Members50 Percent: 1
Members75 Percent: 0
Members: 5
Members F T E: 1.5
Info Members: The Animal Task Force is managed by a Management Board consisting of a chair, a vice-chair representing the private sector and a vice-chair representing research providers.
Day to day activities are coordinated by the ATF Secretariat (Secretary General + Assistant).
Structure
Structure Type: Structure
Is Member Of: The Animal Task Force is formed by a group of industry representative organisations, knowledge providers and farmers' organisations from all over Europe. Together our members represent 16 different EU member states + Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Norway, Serbia, and several sectors in the animal production chain.
For last updates, please see our webpage: http://animaltaskforce.eu/Join-us/Members
Industry representative organisations are:
- AnimalHealthEurope,
- FABRE-TP,
- FEFAC
- FEFANA,
Farmers' représentatives:
- ECIP
Knowledge providers:
- Luke, Finland,
- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences SLU, Sweden,
- Aarhus University, Denmark,
- Polish Academy of Science, Poland,
- Deutsche Agrarforschungsallianz (DAFA), Germany,
- Wageningen University, Netherlands,
- Teagasc, Ireland,
- INRAE, France,
- INIA-CSIC, Spain,
- CREA, Italy,
- IAS Institute of Animal Science, Czech Republic,
- Agroscope, Switzerland,
- Institute of Food Technology, Serbia,
- BIOS Science Austria,
- INIAV, Portugal,
- NMBU, Norway,
- CIEL, UK
- University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Cyprus University of Technology
- CRA-W, Belgium
Promoting sustainable and competitive livestock in Europe requires a strong link with European policy and policymakers. We therefore have 8 observers who provide advice and guidance to our work.