Membership.

The Association is constituted from the professional forest nursery associations of member states of the European Union. Any such organisation in a member country can apply to join. Currently the annual subscription is based upon the number of delegates who participate with each organisation appointing as many as it wants and can afford. In recent years the fee has been 300 Euros per delegate.

Until the 2004 enlargement of the European Union, there were 11 member countries participating in the Association’s activities. The countries and their respective associations can be located as follows :- Austria (www.forstpflanzen.info), Belgium (www.avbs.be ), Denmark (www.deg-greenteam.dk ), France (www.pepiniereforestiere.fr ), Germany (www.vdfonline.de), Ireland (the Irish Forest Nursery Association can be contacted through Patrick Long at pat.long@coillte.ie),  Netherlands (www.nbvb.nl and www.anthos.org), Spain (www.fepex.es), Sweden (the Swedish Forest Nursery Association can be contacted through max@ramlosaplant.se) and the United Kingdom (www.the-hta.org.uk and www.confor.org.uk ). At times in the past, Luxemburg, Italy and Portugal have been represented on the Committee but in the absence of professional forest nursery associations in these countries (and Greece) their participation has lapsed.

  

Following the 2004 expansion the Czech forest nursery industry (http://www.lesniskolky.cz/p?edstaveni sdružení. )  and the Hungarian industry www.csemet.hu have joined the Association .  The very small private forest nursery group in Poland was represented as an observer at the 2005 meeting but has so far not been able to join the Association. In an attempt to increase the  participation of nurseries from new member countries EFNA has invited nurseries from those countries without a national nursery organisation to attend as individual observers.

 

   

Typical nurseries in two new member countries of the EU. Conifer production predominates in the Czech Republic (left) whereas in Hungary (right) broadleaves are responsible for the bulk of sales; here rising two year old Fraxinus excelsior.