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Profile of registrant

Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board

Identification number in the register: 77241847641-50
Registration date: 09/01/12 15:13:38

The information on this organisation was last modified on 10/01/13 10:29:10
The date of the last annual update was 10/01/13 10:29:10


Registrant : Organisation or self-employed individual

Name/company name: Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board
Acronym: AHDB
Legal status: Non departmental public body
Website address: http://www.ahdb.org.uk/home.aspx

Sections

Section: VI - Organisations representing local, regional and municipal authorities, other public or mixed entities, etc.
and more precisely: Other public or mixed entities, etc.

Person with legal responsibility

Surname, Name: Mr  Tom Taylor
Position: Chief executive

Permanent person in charge of EU relations

Surname, Name: Mrs  Kathy Roussel
Position: Head of Brussels office

Contact details:

Contact details of organisation's head office: 1 Stoneleigh Park Kenilworth
Warwickshire CV8 2TL
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone number: (+44) 247 669 2051
Fax number: (+) 
Other contact information: AHDB - Brussels office
61 rue de Trèves
1040 Brussels
Tel: 022308668
Fax: 022308620

Goals / remit

Goals / remit of the organisation: The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) has a pivotal role to help make the six commodity sectors we support more competitive and sustainable.

We undertake research and development (R&D) and farm-level knowledge transfer (KT) and knowledge exchange (KE) activity. We also provide essential market information to improve supply chain transparency, deliver marketing promotion activities to help stimulate demand and also work to maintain and develop export markets.

Covering about 75% of total agricultural output in the United Kingdom (UK), we support:

•Pig meat in England - through our BPEX division
•Beef and lamb in England - through our EBLEX division
•Commercial horticulture in Great Britain - through our HDC division
•Milk in Great Britain - through our DairyCo division
•Potatoes in Great Britain - through our Potato Council division
•Cereals and oilseeds in the UK. - through our HGCA division

AHDB also ensures that proper account is taken of Government priorities for agriculture and the agri-food industry, where appropriate.
The organisation's fields of interests are:
  • national

Number of persons engaged in activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register

Number of persons: 1
Complementary information:

Persons accredited for access to European Parliament premises

No accredited persons

Activities

Main EU initiatives covered the year before by activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register:



Fields of interest for e-mail alerts on consultations and roadmaps;

Fields declared by the organisation:
  • Agriculture and Rural Development
  • Budget
  • Climate Action
  • Consumer Affairs
  • Economic and Financial Affairs
  • Enterprise
  • Environment
  • Food Safety
  • General and Institutional Affairs
  • Internal Market
  • Public Health
  • Trade

Structure

Total number of members that are natural persons: 450
Number of member organisations:
Member organisations (Number of members) :
The organisation has members/is represented in the following country(countries):

Complementary information:

Networking

Information on (i) organisation's membership of any associations/federations/confederations or (ii) relationships to other bodies in formal or informal networks.





Financial data

Financial year: 04/2011 - 01/2012
Total budget: 50,000,000
of which public financing: 50,000,000
- from European sources:
- Procurement:
- Grants:
- from national sources: 50,000,000
- from local/regional sources:
from other sources:
- donations:
- contributions from members:
Estimated costs to the organisation directly related to representing interests to EU institutions in that year: 50000  € - 100000  €
Other (financial) information provided by the organisation:


Code of conduct

By its registration the organisation has signed the Transparency Register Code of Conduct.