What is the AATP?
Delivered during AgTrace Australia’s first proof of concept, the AATP serves to govern how data can be attached to a Digital Product Passport (DPP). Designed as a scalable, transparent, and permission-based mechanism, the AATP helps Australian producers meet emerging environmental, social, and governance (ESG) regulatory and consumer requirements in both domestic and export markets.
In June 2025, the AATP was officially added to the UN Traceability Protocol (UNTP) Extensions Register, formally recognising it as interoperable with UNTP.
UNTP is designed as a common core that is usable by any industry sector or in any regulatory jurisdiction. This cross-industry and cross-border interoperability is a core value of UNTP because almost every value chain will cross industry and/or national borders.
The AATP is not a new system or platform, it is a digital standard that facilitates interoperability between existing ones. In much the same way as interoperability standards for banking and telecoms allow us to choose any service provider (i.e. Bank A) and still be confident that we can pay anyone or call anyone irrespective of the other party’s service provider (i.e. Bank B), so the AATP allows all actors in an agriculture value chain to use their preferred systems and platforms without any dependency on other actor’s choices.
Following the UN/CEFACT adoption of Recommendation No. 49 (Transparency at Scale – Fostering Sustainable Value Chains) in July 2025, Food Agility, represented by Professor David Lamb, is a member of the Steering Group for the supporting instrument; the United Nations Transparency Protocol (UNTP).
The UNTP Steering Group has been created to guide, coordinate, and support the work of the technical UNTP working groups developing the numerous extensions which currently include electrical, electronic & automotive parts, construction, agriculture, critical minerals mining & processing, battery manufacturing and value chains, copper mining & processing.