The CCEURO Region - Regional Coordinator Germany
In 1964, at its second session, the Codex Alimentarius Commission established the Coordinating Committee for Europe to succeed the 'European Council of the Codex Alimentarius' and to replace the 'Advisory Group for Europe' set up at its first session in 1963.
The first meeting of the Coordinating Committee for Europe took place in July 1965 in Berne, Switzerland and was attended by 16 countries from the region.
The current coordinator, Germany, is based in the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL).
Germany’s main priorities as coordinator are to:
- reduce barriers to active participation of Members of the region in Codex work;
- increase the awareness of the role of Codex and food safety in general in the transition towards sustainable food systems; and
- promote the use of Codex standards in priority areas such as antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
In addressing these priorities, the coordinator will use synergies from international and regional level activities of the Codex Secretariat, FAO and WHO as well as Codex Observers.
CCEURO Coordinator
All information on Codex is public and free
For regional enquiries contact:
CCEURO Secretariat
German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture
Wilhelmstrasse 54, 10117 Berlin, Germany
Tel :+49 30 18 529 4065
Email: [email protected]
Czech Republic plans a series of World Food Safety Day publishing activities
Here are the planned activites for World Food Safety Day in the Czech Republic.
26 May 2020
The Ministry of Agriculture - Food Safety Department will publish a short article containing WFSD original key messages on www.bezpecnostpotravin.cz with refence to FAO and WHO activities; and promo materials on social media - Facebook, Twitter (following EFSA activities when key messages and promo materials (images) will be rolled out on social media in a pre-phase starting on 25 May 2020).
2 June 2020
The Ministry of Agriculture - Food Safety Department will publish a second article concerning WFSD on www.bezpecnostpotravin.cz: WFSD history, key messages, links to EFSA, FAO, WHO web pages (following EFSA´s publication of the WFSD page on EFSA’s website on 1 June 2020).
5 June 2020
The Ministry of Agriculture - Food Safety Department will publish the third article concerning WFSD on www.bezpecnostpotravin.cz: food safety issue, key messages, WFSD storyhouse based information.
Ministry of Agriculture will publish a Press Release.
8 June 2020
The Ministry of Agriculture - Food Safety Department will publish an information concerning a joint EFSA/FAO meeting on social media - Facebook, Twitter (following a joint EFSA/FAO live Q&A on Twitter on 8 June 2020).
25 June 2020
The Ministry of Agriculture - Food Safety Department will publish an article in “paper” magazine Food Revue (Potravinářská Revue) on
http://www.agral.cz/nasepublikace/potravinarskarevue/tabid/619/language/cs-cz/default.aspx: food safety issue, WFSD history, key messages.
Food Revueis a technical Journal for Nutrition, Food Production and Trade published since 2004. The aim of the journal Food Revue is to permanently offer space to experts from the above mentioned fields for publishing their opinions and a valuable technical information – workers in food industry, food trade and suppliers and services in the whole sector of food industry; and state administration bodies.
The Food Safety Department (within Ministry of Agriculture) is responsible for communication of risks acting also as the Food Safety Information Centre (www.bezpecnostpotravin.cz), co-ordination of scientific committees providing scientific advice, co-operation with the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), management of the Food Safety Co-ordination Unit, Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) co-ordination and for food from animal clones. The Department coordinates monitoring programmes for contaminants in the food chain, it co-operates with European Commission in the field of food contaminants legislation.
The Department processes applications for placing of novel foods and genetically modified food and feed on the market. It is also responsible for preparing food safety strategies.
Regarding campaign on World Food Safety Day, the Food Safety Information Centre (as a part of Food Safety Department of the Ministry of Agriculture) will publish all above-mentioned relevant information at website www.bezpecnostpotravin.cz, Facebook and Twitter (with link to FAO, WHO and EFSA websites as well).
Users of mailing list (more than 4.000 e-mail addresses for automatic dissemination of food safety messages) will be every time informed about the changes and new campaign topics when published.
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