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
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Celebrating World Food Safety Day 2025 in Ukraine
To commemorate World Food Safety Day 2025, the WHO Country Office in Ukraine organized a series of public engagement activities aimed at raising awareness about food safety. Observing this day has become an annual tradition for the office, and this year’s efforts once again highlighted the importance of safe food practices.
Key activities included:
An interactive food safety quiz launched through Instagram Stories, designed to educate audiences in an engaging and accessible format.
Production of the Ukrainian language version voiceover of WHO’s “5 [...]
24 June 2025
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World Food Safety Day / Spain focuses on food safety culture
To mark World Food Safety Day, the Spanish Agency for Food Safety and Nutrition held a conference titled “Food Safety Culture: From Theory to Practice.”
World Food Safety Day, celebrated every year on 7 June since 2019, serves as a key date to reflect on the importance of ensuring the availability of safe food for all consumers, and what better way to commemorate this day than by talking about a fundamental concept: food safety culture?
The conference highlighted the importance of taking [...]
22 June 2025
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World Food Safety Day / Poland leading the international dialogue on safe and sustainable food systems
In line with this year’s World Food Safety Day theme, the Permanent Representation of the Republic of Poland to the European Union in Brussels, Belgium, hosted an international event on 10 June 2025, titled “Food Safety: Science in Action.”
The meeting was organized by the Agricultural and Food Quality Inspection (AFQI), which acts as the Codex Contact Point for Poland, in collaboration with Poland’s Permanent Representation to the European Union and the FAO Liaison Office in Brussels.
The venue of the event [...]
22 June 2025
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World Food Safety Day / Online nutrition event to address World Food Safety Day themes
In celebration of World Food Safety Day 2025, the Nutrition Research Facility (NRF) will host a webinar titled “Food safety laws and regulations: improving their effectiveness by changing their design,” focusing on how policy design influences food safety outcomes across diverse country contexts.
The webinar will have a special emphasis on case studies from Côte d’Ivoire and Kenya. Organized as part of the Knowledge and Research for Nutrition project implemented by AGRINATURA and funded by the European Union, this event is directly linked to [...]
13 June 2025
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World Food Safety Day / Switzerland celebrates with 4th Microbiological Risk Assessment Seminar
On Friday, 6 June 2025, the celebration of World Food Safety Day took centre stage at the Swiss Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office (FSVO) in Bern, Switzerland. Indeed, in line with the official theme for this year’s World Food Safety Day (WFSD), the event organised by the FSVO was titled: 4th Microbiological Risk Assessment Seminar: A Celebration of Science for Food Safety. This year’s event brought together experts from Federal Institutions as well as representatives from Cantonal authorities and the Academia, to discuss [...]
12 June 2025
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World Food Safety Day / Romania University holds poster competition for students
Romania participated in World Food Safety Day by hosting the 6th edition of the “Youth and Food Safety - PolySafeFood” Competition. The event was organized by the Faculty of Chemical Engineering, Biotechnology and Environmental Protection at Politehnica University Timisoara, Romania. This event encouraged middle school, high school, and college students to explore five key themes impacting food safety within the food chain, which they then presented as posters along with a video containing the presentation of the poster.
This year, the [...]
12 June 2025
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World Food Safety Day / Drinks company treats employees to food safety fun
Refresco France, a food company specializing in beverage packaging, is committed to raising employee awareness about the food safety issues surrounding the products we package... and also the products they consume!
So, they invited them to enjoy some crepes, after exposing them to a UV lamp that unmasked the germs! They got playful, painting the handrails and door handles with developer, so their hands became fluorescent every time. After washing their hands, each employee was able to enjoy crepes with chocolate [...]
11 June 2025
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World Food Safety Day Celebrated in Türkiye
World Food Safety Day was marked in Türkiye with a high-level event held on 3 June 2025, coordinated by the General Directorate of Food and Control under the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.
The event, hosted by the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, İbrahim Yumaklı, brought together a wide range of participants, including representatives from international organizations, public institutions, academia, civil society, and the food industry.
In his opening speech, Minister Yumaklı emphasized the significance of this year’s theme, “Food Safety: Science [...]
11 June 2025
World Food Safety Day / Kazakh students put food safety to music in pop video
Students of the Kazakh Agrotechnical Research University named after S.Seifullin and Associate Professor Laura Auteleeva (Republic of Kazakhstan, Astana) congratulate everyone on World Food Safety Day, with the slogan “Food safety is our priority!”
They produced a music video on Codex Alimentarius and food safety, which was distributed across social media:
Watch the video: https://youtube.com/shorts/qd_wgxHdMz8?si=vN-9imsSwHNetJrF*
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World Food Safety Day 2025 news
*Please note, FAO, WHO and the World Food Safety Day team do not represent or endorse the accuracy or reliability of the [...]
11 June 2025
World Food Safety Day / FAO in Georgia is training cheesemakers on food safety standards
In Georgia, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has been training farmers, and especially women farmers, on modern dairy farming practices and innovative cheese production methods as well as in relevant food safety standards.
The Farmer Field School-based training is facilitated by FAO, and the training is made possible through a Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) project, implemented in partnership with UN Women, as well as the European Union (EU) and Sweden under the European [...]
10 June 2025
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CCEURO Coordinator
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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]