EU’s Farm to Fork Strategy for a fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly food system
The European Green Deal sets out how to make Europe the first climate-neutral continent by 2050. The Farm to Fork Strategy is at the heart of the Green Deal. The strategy is also central to the European Commission’s agenda to achieve the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. A shift to a sustainable food system can bring environmental, health and social benefits, offer economic gains and ensure that the recovery from the crisis puts us onto a sustainable path.
The European Union will promote the global transition to sustainable agri-food systems through its external policies. The strategy recognises the important role of international standard setting bodies such as Codex to support this global transition that has to rely on high safety and sustainability standards.
Read more: https://ec.europa.eu/food/farm2fork_en
At the heart of the Codex mandate are the core values of collaboration, inclusiveness, consensus building and transparency. Governmental and non-governmental, public and private organizations alike play a vital role in ensuring Codex texts are of the highest quality and based on sound science.
Codex would have little authority in the field of international standard setting if it did not welcome and acknowledge the valuable contributions made by observers. Expert technical bodies, industry and consumer associations
contribute to the standard-setting process in a spirit of openness, collaboration and transparency.
Intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) and international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) can apply for observer status in Codex in order to attend and put forward their views at every stage of the standard-setting process.
Current Codex Alimentarius Commission
EU’s Farm to Fork Strategy for a fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly food system
The European Green Deal sets out how to make Europe the first climate-neutral continent by 2050. The Farm to Fork Strategy is at the heart of the Green Deal. The strategy is also central to the European Commission’s agenda to achieve the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. A shift to a sustainable food system can bring environmental, health and social benefits, offer economic gains and ensure that the recovery from the crisis puts us onto a sustainable path.
The European Union will promote the global transition to sustainable agri-food systems through its external policies. The strategy recognises the important role of international standard setting bodies such as Codex to support this global transition that has to rely on high safety and sustainability standards.
Read more: https://ec.europa.eu/food/farm2fork_en
Codex and Observer
around the world since ancient times.
We might not always know where it comes from,
but we expect it to be available, safe and of good quality.
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