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]
Artificial Intelligence for detecting food fraud - promoting Codex standards through AI
The international conference "Artificial Intelligence (AI) for detecting food fraud" was held on 13 September 2022 in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan.
The conference was organized by the FAO/WHO Coordinating Committee for Europe (CCEURO) of the Codex Alimentarius, the European Center for Peace and Development of the United Nations University for Peace (ECPD), the International Food Standards Certification Organization (IFSCO), with the support of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
The conference, attended by 1680 participants from Europe and Asia adopted a resolution outlining measures to promote international Codex standards through AI.
Virtual participants attending Artificial Intelligence for detecting food fraud conference
An important stage of this programme will be the establishment of an AI center for the certification of the authenticity of food products and food additives based on the international standards of the Codex Alimentarius. The center will operate as an international consortium of leading artificial intelligences from Europe, Asia and America, headquartered in Kazakhstan.
The Conference endorsed FAO's statements about the formidable barriers to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goal of ending hunger by 2030. As one of the measures to prevent this huge international problem, the conference called on the owners of all artificial intelligences to hold an online conference of artificial intelligences to predict the consequences of a possible famine and measures to prevent it.
The conference also supported the Rome Сall of FAO, Google, and IBM for ethics of AI, initiated by the Vatican.
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