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.
News from the region
World Food Safety Day campaign in the Russian social media
The 2nd World Food Safety Day (WFSD) took place on 7 June 2020 to raise awareness and inspire action to contribute not only to food security and human health, but also sustainable development. This Day proved to be of special value in the unprecedent time of the COVID-19 pandemic as the food safety is a shared responsibility of all sectors and society as a whole.
The WHO Country Office in the Russian Federation used this year’s theme “Food safety, everyone’s business” to [...]
19 June 2020
Food Safety is always a priority for Armenia!
FAO Armenia is closely collaborating with the Food Safety Inspectorate of the Government of the Republic of Armenia, which implements assessment of food products conformity with the applicable standards, regulates the administration of veterinary and sanitary services, as well as ensures control and imposes sanctions acting on behalf of the Republic of Armenia.
To celebrate the World Food Safety Day (WFSD) this year, the Head of the Food Safety Inspection Body Mr Georgi Avetisyan delivered a video speech, congratulating everyone on [...]
18 June 2020
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 [...]
15 June 2020
Celebrating the World Food Safety Day in Turkey
On 7 June, the Bursa Food Engineer’s Chamber organized a food safety panel with representatives from the Ministry of Agriculture, Bursa Chamber of Commerce and Industry, WHO Country Office and Consumer right association. The panellists insisted on the need to team up across sectors to improve food safety and stressed the importance of collaboration on risk evaluation, management and collaboration. The panel discussed the mechanisms to be implemented to strengthen the collaboration between FAO, OIE and WHO to implement the [...]
15 June 2020
FAO Interview - Europe and Central Asia - adapting to maintain food safety in times of COVID-19
Mary Kenny, FAO food safety and consumer protection officer for the Europe and Central Asia region spoke in a recent interview from Budapest about how all those involved in food safety will need to adapt in order to maintain the safety and integrity of the food supply chain and support international trade.
Read the full interview here on the FAO regional web pages.
Photo credit
© UN Ukraine/Volodymyr Shuvayev
11 June 2020
Food Nation promotes Danish food safety and quality
Food quality and safety is key to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the growing population is pressuring food producers to provide a sufficient supply of healthy, safe and accessible food. On the second observance of World Food Safety Day (7 June 2020), Food Nation used the occasion to promote the Danish food quality and safety and urge action by highlighting what everyone can do to ensure food safety.
This happened, among other things, during a webinar on Monday June 8, [...]
10 June 2020
#AskESFA Twitter Q&A explores shared responsibility of food safety
A live Twitter Q&A hosted by the European Food Safety Authority in collaboration with the Codex Alimentarius Commission answered questions about the #OneHealth approach, sustainable #foodsystems and the shared responsibility of #foodsafety.
Bernhard Url, Executive Director EFSA teamed up with Tom Heilandt, Codex Secretary to tackle a range of challenging food safety issues that you can read about by following the Twitter thread below:
EFSA WFSD Twitter Q&A
09 June 2020
University POLITEHNICA Timisoara, Romania holds poster competition
The Faculty of Industrial Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, University POLITEHNICA Timisoara, Romania is joining the WHO and FAO campaign on World Food Safety Day by organizing the Youth and Food Safety Competition. Because the day is 7th of June, 7 themes on food chain components that greatly impact food safety are proposed to middle school, high school and college students for a poster presentation.
The aim is to raise awareness on food safety importance, to inform and to involve more and [...]
08 June 2020
Luxembourg launches online quiz for World Food Safety Day
Luxembourg has launched an online quiz (www.secheriessen.lu) on food safety topics (from 3 until 14 June, available in French and Luxemburgish) to celebrate the World Food Safety Day edition 2020.
A press communication (in French) accompanied the launch of the quiz and shares the links to the EFSA website, to the new F2F strategy and to the results of the Eurobarometer 2019.
The press release was also published on the national food safety website using communication materials of the WHO and FAO campaign [...]
06 June 2020
“Food Safety and COVID-19, Connection or Obsession?” A webinar by FEDALCYTA
This year, to mark the second celebration of World Food Safety Day, FEDALCYTA, the Food Campus of the University of Barcelona and FEDNU, are holding a webinar on 8 June.
The webinar “Food Safety and COVID-19, Connection or Obsession? Exploring reality based on risk analysis” aims to provide an outlook of the changes required to prevent the impacts of COVID-19 impact on consumer health, global food trade, local markets and the food supply chain.
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8 June, 16:30 CEST
Register at: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/dmia-2020/register
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05 June 2020
Video Message
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]