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]
Workshop for World Food Safety Day in Kazakhstan
A scientific and methodological workshop dedicated to World Food Safety Day was held on 7 June, 2022 on the topic: “Safety and quality of various nuts” at the basis of NJSC Kazakh Agrotechnical University named after. S. Seifullin (KazATU). The workshop participants were represented by the KazATU (teaching staff, undergraduates), heads of food markets laboratories, a major supplier of nuts to the markets of Nur-Sultan, WHO international consultant (Eronimas Maskeliunas), consultant of the WHO country office, Kazakhstan Codex Alimentarius Team.
The role of the Codex Alimentarius in food safety, the WHO global strategy for food safety, the role of risk analysis and assessment at the country level were discussed at the workshop. The second part of it covered such issues as food safety control in Kazakhstan, the establishment of Maximum Levels (MLs) for aflatoxins in nuts in the Codex Coordinating Committee for Contaminants in Food (CCCF), the study of various nuts for aflatoxin content and nut quality presented at the country's markets.
By the end of the presentations, the laboratory of the KazATU department has been demonstrated, that analyzes nuts to determine aflatoxins in it.
It was decided to continue the interaction between the Department of Veterinary Sanitation, the laboratory service of the markets, the national Codex contact structure and WHO, to highlight the results of the research work of the department on measures to reduce the aflatoxin impact on the human body.
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