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The legal framework for EU safety and hygiene requirements

The legal framework for EU safety and hygiene requirements. Christophe Wolff - Legislative Officer. 1. General frame for EU Food Legislation 2. Hygiene Legislation: Existing requirements Future Legislation 3. Other EU pieces of legislation Animal Health and Feed Safety Additives

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The legal framework for EU safety and hygiene requirements

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  1. The legal framework for EU safety and hygiene requirements Christophe Wolff - Legislative Officer • 1. General frame for EU Food Legislation • 2. Hygiene Legislation: • Existing requirements • Future Legislation • 3. Other EU pieces of legislation • Animal Health and Feed Safety • Additives • Contact Materials • Contaminants and Residues • Official controls TAIEX Seminar, Warsaw

  2. F a c t o r y F a r m Feed R e t a i l Food Input of material C o n s u m e r Risks The legal framework for EU safety and hygiene requirements TAIEX Seminar, Warsaw

  3. The legal framework for EU safety and hygiene requirements 1. General Frame for EU Food Law: Regulation 178/2002 • General Principles of Food Law • Objectives • Risk Analysis (assessment, management & communication) • Precautionary principle • General requirements of Food Law • Food/Feed Safety • Traceability • Responsibilities/Liability TAIEX Seminar, Warsaw

  4. The legal framework for EU safety and hygiene requirements 1. General Frame for EU Food Law: Regulation 178/2002 • Safety of Food - Monitoring • Rapid Alert System • Crisis Management • Emergencies • The European Food Safety Authority • Risk Assesser and role in risk communication • Management Board includes stakeholders • Scientific Panels TAIEX Seminar, Warsaw

  5. The legal framework for EU safety and hygiene requirements 2. Hygiene Legislation: Existing Requirement • Directive 93/43 on General Food Hygiene • HACCP Principles • National and EU guides to good hygiene • Recommends the application of EN standards • Controls to be carried out by competent authorities (inc. imports) • Imports conditions and notification procedure • General requirements for premises, transport, equipment, water supply and staff • Without prejudice to more specific EU hygiene rules TAIEX Seminar, Warsaw

  6. The legal framework for EU safety and hygiene requirements 2. Hygiene Legislation: Existing Requirement • Directive 92/46 on Dairy Hygiene • Definition of milk and milk products, HACCP principles, derogations for traditional products and following requirements: • At the level of production: • Animal health rules for raw milk • Hygiene of the holding • Milking, collection and transport • Standards be met TAIEX Seminar, Warsaw

  7. The legal framework for EU safety and hygiene requirements 2. Hygiene Legislation: Existing Requirement • Directive 92/46 on Dairy Hygiene • At the level of treatment establishments: • Conditions for approval • Hygiene conditions in treatment and processing establishments • Registration of collection and standardisation centres • Premises equipment and staff • Requirements for the production of liquid milk and milk-based products • Microbiological criteria for liquid milk and milk-based products • Packaging, health marking and labelling • Storage and transport requirements • Health checks and supervision of production TAIEX Seminar, Warsaw

  8. The legal framework for EU safety and hygiene requirements 2. Hygiene Legislation: Future Legislation • Key proposals • Proposal for a Regulation on Hygiene • Proposal for a Regulation laying down specific hygiene rules for food of animal origin • Proposal for a Regulation laying down detailed rules for the organisation of official controls on products of animal origin intended for human consumption • Proposal for a Regulation laying down the animal-health rules governing the production, placing on the market and importation of products of animal origin intended for human consumption (already adopted as Directive 2002/099/EC) • Proposal for a Directive repealing certain Directives on the hygiene of foodstuffs and the health conditions for the production and placing on the market of certain products of animal origin intended for human consumption, and amending Directives 89/662/EEC and 91/67/EEC TAIEX Seminar, Warsaw

  9. The legal framework for EU safety and hygiene requirements 2. Hygiene Legislation: Future Legislation • Key measures • Implementation of a ‘farm to table’ approach; • Introduction of a ‘Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points’ system (HACCP) for all food business operators to identify any step in their activities which is critical to ensuring food safety and ensure that adequate safety procedures are identified, implemented, maintained and reviewed; • Registration or approval for certain food establishments; • Development of guides to good practice for hygiene (GHPs) and for the application of HACCP principles by food business operators; • Set-up of a special provision to ensure flexibility for food produced in remote areas (high mountains, remote island) and for traditional production and methods. TAIEX Seminar, Warsaw

  10. The legal framework for EU safety and hygiene requirements 3. Other EU Legislation: Animal Health an Feed Safety • Prevention and control of animal diseases (Foot-and-Mouth Disease, zoonoses and specified zoonotic agents in animals and products of animal origin…) • Legislation on BSE (Animal By-Products, Removal of Specified Risk Materials, Feed ban) • Marketing and labelling of feed materials, of compound feedingstuffs, of feedingstuffs intended for particular nutritional purposes, of bioproteins and of genetically modified feed • Authorisation, marketing and labelling of feed additives • Undesirable substances in feedingstuffs (mycotoxins, heavy metals etc.) • Approval and registration of animal feed producing establishments • Official inspections in animal nutrition TAIEX Seminar, Warsaw

  11. The legal framework for EU safety and hygiene requirements 3. Other EU Legislation: Additives, Contact Materials • Additives • Framework Directive 89/107 laying down general rules on additives • Directives in application of 89/107 laying down conditions under which these additives can be used (incl. colours and sweeteners) • Purity criteria are also defined in specific directives • Directive 88/388 and Regulation 2232/96 laying down general and basic rules on flavourings • Contact Materials • Framework Directive 89/109 laying down general rules for food contact materials • Specific directives cover single groups of materials and articles listed in the framework Directive TAIEX Seminar, Warsaw

  12. The legal framework for EU safety and hygiene requirements 3. Other EU Legislation: Contaminants and residues, Official controls • Contaminants in food • Regulation 315/93 defines the basic principles • ALARA (as low as can reasonably be achieved) principle applies • For safety reasons, maximum levels for certain contaminants must therefore be set • Regulation 466/2001sets these levels notably for nitrates, aflatoxins, heavy metals and dioxins • Official controls • Feed: Directives 70/373 (sampling and analysis) and 95/53 (inspections) • Food: Directives 89/397 and 93/99 • Food/feed of animal origin: Directives 89/662 (veterinary checks), 97/78 (inspections on imports) and 2002/99 on animal health rules (veterinary controls and certificates, incl imports) TAIEX Seminar, Warsaw

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