Animal Task Force

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Animal Task Force (ATF)

EU Transparency Register

398736910798-22 First registered on 12 Mar 2013

Goals / Remit

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

Main EU files targeted

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

Address

Head Office

149 rue de Bercy
Paris 75012
FRANCE

EU Office

Rue de Trèves 61
Brussels 1040
BELGIUM

Website

http://www.animaltaskforce.eu

People

Total lobbyists declared

5

Employment time	Lobbyists
50%	1
25%	4

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

1.5

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

No lobbyists with EP accreditations

Complementary Information

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).

Person in charge of EU relations

Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR

Person with legal responsibility

Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR

Affiliation

None declared

Member organisations

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.

Financial Data

Interests represented

Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members

Closed financial year

Jan 2023 - Dec 2023

Lobbying costs for closed financial year

50,000€ - 99,999€

Major contributions in closed year

None declared

Intermediaries for closed year

None declared

Intermediaries for current year

None declared

Closed year Costs

50,000€ - 99,999€

Other financial info

None declared

EU Structures

Groups (European Commission)

None declared

Groups (European Parliament)

N/A

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

Other activities

None declared

Meetings

10 meetings found. Download meetings

The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.

1 July 2024: We have noted that some meetings are appearing in duplicate, ie. some meetings seem to be listed twice. This seems to be because the Commission changes some element of a meeting data after the meeting has first been listed, which causes LobbyFacts to register it as a new meeting. We are investigating further.

Date	24 Oct 2023	Location	video-call
Subject	Methane from livestock
Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič
Portfolio	Energy Union
Attending	Dino Toljan (Cabinet member) Lukas Visek (Cabinet member)

Date	24 Oct 2023	Location	video-call
Subject	Methane from livestock
Cabinet	Cabinet of Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič
Portfolio	Interinstitutional Relations and Foresight
Attending	Lukas Visek (Cabinet member) Dino Toljan (Cabinet member)

Date	13 Jan 2021	Location	Brussels - Webex
Subject	Presentation of the upcoming ATF Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda
DG	Agriculture and Rural Development
Attending	Wolfgang Burtscher (Director-General)

Date	13 Nov 2020	Location	Virtual meeting
Subject	Exchange of views with the Animal Task Force on Farm to Fork, sustainable livestock systems, latest innovations and scientific finding as well as international partnerships.
Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Stella Kyriakides
Portfolio	Health
Attending	Panayiotis Pourgourides (Cabinet member) Ines Prainsack (Cabinet member)

Date	04 Nov 2020	Location	Brussels - webinar
Subject	Speech on circularity
Cabinet	Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans
Portfolio	European Green Deal
Attending	Lukas Visek (Cabinet member)

Date	16 Sep 2020	Location	Brussels - Webex meeting
Subject	Livestock and the Green Deal
DG	Agriculture and Rural Development
Attending	Wolfgang Burtscher (Director-General)

Date	09 Jun 2020	Location	Brussels - video conference
Subject	Sustainable food systems
Cabinet	Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans
Portfolio	European Green Deal
Attending	Lukas Visek (Cabinet member)

Date	05 May 2020	Location	videoconference
Subject	To introduce ATF work and discuss on the Farm to Fork Strategy and how the livestock sector could evolve in the future.
Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski
Portfolio	Agriculture
Attending	Catherine Geslain-Lanéelle (Cabinet member) Janusz Wojciechowski (Commissioner)

Date	29 May 2018	Location	Brussels
Subject	The importance of Research and Innovation (R&I) supporting a sustainable and competitive livestock production sector in Europe
Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan
Portfolio	Agriculture & Rural Development
Attending	Tom Tynan (Cabinet member)

Date	09 Dec 2014	Location	Brussels
Subject	Animal Health
Cabinet	Cabinet of Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis
Portfolio	Health & Food Safety
Attending	Arunas Ribokas (Cabinet member) Nathalie Chaze (Cabinet member) Marco Valletta (Cabinet member)

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