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
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For regional enquiries contact:
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‍CCEURO Secretariat
German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture
Wilhelmstrasse 54, 10117 Berlin, Germany
Tel :+49 30 18 529 4065
Email: [email protected]

Armenia takes a comprehensive approach to World Food Safety Day

Aug 26, 2021, 14:48 PM by System

In 2021, Armenia’s Food Safety Inspection Body (FSIB) initiated two World Food Safety Day events: A webinar on 4 June that focused on national food safety issues and, a conference on 7-8 June in Aghveran with financial support of the Strategic Development Agency in collaboration with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation in Armenia (SDC).

The virtual event included a presentation from Mary Kenny, FAO’s food safety and consumer protection officer and Peter Hoejskov, a technical officer from the WHO Regional Office for Europe.

As Mary Kenny emphasized, the United Nations recognizes the importance of food safety to ensure food security, improve trade, employment, and alleviate poverty. She pointed at the need for robust food control systems to protect the consumer and ensure fair trade practices. To this end, Kenny talked about an ongoing FAO project that helps set up risk assessment, risk management, and risk communication methodologies on food safety, veterinary, and phytosanitary services in Armenia.

The intervention of WHO’s Peter Hoejskov centred around the idea of ensuring safe food now for a healthy tomorrow.

The two-day conference was attended by high-level representatives from the Ministry of Economy, Ministry of Health, FAO, World Food Programme, UNIDO, as well as by trade representatives of the Russian Federation, and participants from a number educational institutions, non-governmental organizations, private companies, regional centres and associations.

FSIB has been organizing meetings, information materials for World Food Safety Day and shared them with partners and the general public through social media and also produced a series of food safety information posters targeted at young children, teenagers, and prohibited the sale of unhealthy foods in school cafeterias.

The webinar can be viewed here and has translation into English throughout: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVt1ceYNp3M