The association represents animal protection organisations across the 27 EU Member States and several other countries.

[2] It also acts as the secretariat of the European Parliamentary Intergroup on the Welfare and Conservation of Animals, which meets at the European Parliament in Strasbourg for regular sessions.

The organisation is headed by President Philip Lymbery (Global CEO of Compassion in World Farming, and CEO Reineke Hameleers.

[4] The RSPCA founded Eurogroup for Animals in 1980 (Britain was at the time in the European Community) along with five other organisations in other EEC (later EU) Member States (Dierenbescherming in the Netherlands, Deutscher Tierschutzbund in Germany, Dyrenes Beskyttelse in Denmark, La Société Protectrice des Animaux (SPA) in France and Lëtzebuerger Déiereschutzliga in Luxembourg).

It is one of the longest established lobby groups in Brussels, and has grown over the years to represent animal protection organisations in the 27 Member States of the European Union, as well as in several third countries, including the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Norway, and Australia.