Membership
Being a member of ATF allows you to provide input for the research agenda developed by the Animal Task Force.
Scope
The ATF is made up of national research organisations (one per country, representing the animal sciences organisations in that country), organisations representing the European private sector and European farmer organisations in animal production. The activities of the ATF relate to the sustainability and competitiveness of the entire terrestrial livestock production sector, including related by-products and co-products.
Members
Membership of the ATF is open to organisations within the scope defined in the above “scope” section.
To ensure that the activities of ATF are widely shared and informed, the ATF aims to achieve a fair balance of members from across the Member States of the EU and from transnational European bodies from across the livestock production chain.
The ATF recognises that there may be several knowledge providers in the domain of animal sciences within each Member State who would wish to have membership, but ATF will offer membership to only one knowledge provider per Member State. That member is expected to liaise with other relevant knowledge organisations within its Member State for an overall national representation and so that the activities of ATF are widely shared and informed. In some countries where research institutions are fragmented, they will create a consortium of institutes.
The ATF recognises that there are many national and transnational industry and farmer organisations in the domain of livestock production that would wish to have membership, but ATF will only offer membership for European-wide industry and farmer organisations. Members from the provate sector will be preferably European Technology Platforms representing several European industry branch organisations. When there is no European Technology Platform membership from a sector, membership is open to European Branch Industry Organisations. Only one representative per sector-branch can be a member, or two representatives per sector-branch can join into engaged-partnerships.
Engaged partners
A status of engaged partner is set up in order to facilitate the involvement of private sector organisations in sector branches that are not represented by a member organisation.
Engaged partnership of the ATF is open to organisations within the scope defined in the above “scope” section.
Engaged partners can be European farmers organisations established at European level or European industry organisations.
Engaged partnership is open to a maximum of two representatives per sector-branch industry. Over two engaged partners of the same branch industry have to create a consortium.
European branch organisations in the area of livestock non-food products will be considered as one sector-branch industry (fur, leather, rendering, pet food, cosmetics, etc.).
Associated organisations
Associated organisations can be European Technology Platforms and European branch industry organisations outside the direct animal domain, or farmers groups. Associated European organisations will contribute to the ATF via input for the strategy.