Annual Report 2000
            
              12/31/2000
            
          
           
          
            
    - White Paper - the EU's official report on food safety dated January 12, 2000. This document Formulates the EU's priorities on this subject. 
- CHEK - Chemische Kwaliteitsborging (the system of assessing the laboratory competence organised by the Inspectorate of the Netherlands) 
- Customs Act - Act No. 13/1993 Coll., Customs Act, as amended 
- CIA - the Czech Institute for Accreditation 
- Codex Alimentarius - Codex Alimentarius Commission (the international commission for coordination of standards and directives for production, retailing, and food control) 
- CR - the Czech Republic 
- CSN - the Czech standard 
- ČZPI/CAFIA - the Czech Agricultural and Food Inspectorate 
- DGCCRF - Direction Générale de la Concurrence, de la Consommation et de la Répression des Fraudes (the regulatory body in France) 
- DG SANCO - Directorate General SANCO - the Directorate General of the European Commission for Health and Consumer Protection 
- DNA - deoxyribonucleic acid 
- EEC - European Economic Community 
- EC - European Commission 
- EN - European norm 
- EC - European Community 
- EU - European Union 
- FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN 
- FAPAS - The Food Analysis Performance Assessment Scheme (international assessment of laboratory performance - chemical analysis) 
- FEPAS - The Food Evaluation Performance Assessment Scheme (international assessment of laboratory performance - microbiological analysis) 
- FLEP -Food Law Enforcement Practitioners (association of European inspection body representatives who enforce food law in practice) 
- FSAI - Food Safety Authority of Ireland 
- GEMS/Foodstuffs - the Global Environmental Management System / The programme of food contamination control and determination, generally known by the GEMS/Foodstuffs abbreviation; it was commenced in 1976 as a joint project of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO), UN Environmental Programme (UNEP), and the World Health Organisation (WHO) 
- GMO - genetically modified organisms 
- GOSKOMSANEPIDNADZOR - State Committee for Sanitary and Epidemiological Supervision of the Russian Federation 
- GOSSTANDART - the state standard of Russia 
- Gost R - the system of the Russian certification 
- HACCP - Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points 
- IAFD - Irish Agri-Food Development (the company arranging for the PHARE project for CAFIA employee training 
- ISDN - Integrated Services Digital Network 
- KI - Regional Branch / Regional Inspection 
- PC - personal computer 
- PHARE - the European Commission's financial programme for assisting candidate countries in preparation for the accession to the European Union 
- Public Relations 
- QUID Thematic Network - (QUID - Quantitative Ingredient Declaration) - the European network of laboratories applying the Directive 79/112/EEC on labelling and quantitative ingredient declaration in practice 
- TAIEX - Technical Assisstance Information Exchange Office - the institution founded by the European Commission with the objective of assisting the associated countries of Central and Eastern Europe in preparation for their incorporation into the EU internal market 
- UNEP - United Nations Environmental Programme 
- ÚNMZ - Úřad pro technickou normalizaci, metrologii a státní zkušebnictví (Authority for Technical Standardisation, Metrology, and State Quality Control) 
- Decree of the Ministry of Health No. 294/97 Coll. - the Decree of the Ministry of Health No. 294/1997 Coll. concerning food biological requirements and method for their inspection and evaluation, as amended 
- Decree of the Ministry of Agriculture No. 147/98 Coll. - the Decree of the Ministry of Agriculture No. 147/1998 Coll. concerning the method of determining critical points in production technology. 
- Decree of the Ministry of Health No. 298/97 Coll. - the Decree of the Ministry of Health No. 298/1997 Coll., which stipulates chemical requirements for safety of individual food types and food raw materials; conditions of their use; their labelling on packages; requirements for purity and identity of additive substances and food supplements; and microbiological requirements for food supplements and additive substances, as amended 
- Decree of the Ministry of Agriculture No. 220/98 Coll. - the Decree of the Ministry of Agriculture No. 220/1998 Coll. concerning the method and extent of evaluating food conformity; method of preparing and taking control samples of foodstuffs and tobacco products by the producer; types of foodstuffs for which the producer or importer will issue a written declaration of conformity; and the scope and content of this declaration (evaluation of conformity) 
- WHO - World Health Organization 
- www - World Wide Web 
- Act on the CAFIA - Act No. 63/1986 Coll. concerning the CAFIA, as amended 
- Act on Foodstuffs - Act No. 110/1997 Coll. concerning foodstuffs and tobacco products and alteration and supplementation of some related acts 
- Act on Administrative Proceedings - Act No. 71/1967 Coll. concerning administrative proceedings (administrative order) as amended 
- Act on Vineyards and Viniculture - Act No. 115/1995 Coll. concerning vineyards and viniculture and alteration of some related legal regulations