Important information regarding the termination of EU-ETV and VERA
At the end of 2022 VERA was supposed to integrate with EU-ETV. However, following an internal assessment, the European Commission has taken the decision to discontinue its work on the ETV programme. This means that the programme will not be run nor supported by the European Commission anymore as of November 2022. The protocols that were developed will however remain available for use by stakeholders.
Regarding the running applications and verification statements, the VERA Board is currently working on finding a solution. All stakeholders have been informed through e-mail. The VERA website will remain available until the end of 2023.
VERA is a multinational collaboration between Denmark, The Netherlands and Flanders for testing and verifying environmental technologies within the agricultural sector. The purpose of VERA is to enhance a well-functioning international market for environmental technologies to help solve the environmental challenges of agricultural production.
The framework for test and verification is based on test protocols that are developed, or in the process of being developed. Technologies that have been tested according to one of the VERA test protocols can obtain a VERA Verification Statement.A VERA Verification Statement secures documentation for the environmental efficiency and operational stability of a technology and is an important step when introducing a technology to the market.
