CCAFRICA24

GENERAL INFORMATION

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The 24th Session of the FAO/WHO Coordinating Committee for Africa is scheduled to take place from 5 to 9 September 2022 with report adoption on 13 September 2022. The session will be held virtually from 13:00 – 16:00 CET.

The opening session will begin at 13.00 hours CET on Monday, 5 September 2022. Sessions will take place on 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 September 2022 from 13.00 to 16.00 hours CET. The adoption of the report will take place on Tuesday, 13 September 2022 from 13.00 to 16.00 hours CET

The session will be conducted in English, French, and Portuguese. The working documents will be issued in English and French only.
The provisional timetable for the session is available here.

GUIDANCE TO PARTICIPANTS OF A VIRTUAL CODEX SESSION

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The Codex Secretariat has prepared a guidance for Members and Observers to facilitate the smooth running of CCAFRICA24. The Codex Secretariat has prepared a guidance for Members and Observers to facilitate the smooth running of Codex virtual meetings. Codex members and observers participating in the upcoming virtual meeting are kindly invited to consult the Information for Delegates webpage and in particular to read the Guidance to participants of virtual meetings available in English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese and Russian.

WEBINARS IN PREPARATION FOR CCAFRICA24
Draft Guidelines for Developing Harmonized Food Safety Legislation for the Region and the Regional Standard for Dried Meat - 19 May

This webinar will provide an update and progress regarding ongoing work in the region on draft guidelines for developing harmonized food safety legislation for the region that were recently circulated for comments at Step 3 as well as on the draft regional standard for dried meat currently at Step 7.

Webinar details and programme are available here in English and French

Pre-CCAFRICA 24 webinar – 30th August 2022, 12:00 -13:30 CEST

Join this event to get up to date information from the Chairperson and Codex Secretariat on how you can be an active participant to CCAFRICA24. This event will be very useful for first-time delegates as well as a refresher for returning delegates on how to operate successfully in a virtual Codex Session.

Download the programme here.
Register directly here

ONLINE PRE-REGISTRATION

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All participants should provide their information (names and addresses) through the Online Registration System by accessing the link below, latest by 48 hours in advance of the start of the plenary meeting i.e. 3rd September 12:00 CET.

Login and password for the online registration to the plenary meeting and the meetings of the working groups have been provided to all Codex Contact Points of Member Countries and Observer Organizations. If the login and password have not been received, please contact [email protected]

Provisional TimeTable

Pre-CCAFRICA 24 webinar