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CAFIA launched a project of cross-border cooperation with Saxony in the field of food market surveillance
01/19/2011The initial conference to the project of cross-border cooperation of the Czech Agriculture and Food Inspection Authority and the Saxon Ministry for Social Affairs and Consumer Protection was held in Most on 18. January 2011. CAFIA inspectorates in Plzeň and Ústí nad Labem and Saxon supervisory bodies subordinate to the Saxon Ministry mentioned above are involved in the project.
The aim of the project is to enhance cooperation and establish personal contacts between inspectors in cross-border regions of the Czech Republic and Saxony in the field of official food inspection. Exchange visits of employees at both partnership organisations are the main contents of the project.
In total 24 representatives from each country will participate in these visits. The target group is consisted in particular of inspectors. The exchange stays will include visits at a regional inspectorate/control body where activities of the given body will be introduced and current problems will be discussed. These activities will be further followed by visits of food business operators. These joint inspections are crucial constituents of the whole project; inspectors will have the opportunity to see with their own eyes how their duties are performed on the other side of the border and to compare them with the activities of the own body. The visits will be carried out within the given responsibilities of CAFIA. E.g. bakeries, producers of delicatessen or confectionary products, breweries, wholesales with fruit and vegetables or supermarkets will be visited.
"Both countries create constituents of the single internal market within the European Union. We are aware of the fact that problems related to food safety are not limited by country borders. The single internal market, non-existence of border checks and free movement of goods make much higher demands on cooperation and coordination of activities of supervisory bodies particularly in situations when food safety is threatened. From this reason, I do welcome any project which contributes to further enhancing such cooperation", Martin Klanica, Executive Director of the Control and Legal Division, said during the initial conference. Establishing a common basis for cooperation in the field of food safety in the cross-border area is also expected by the Saxon partner. A short bilateral meeting was held between Director Klanica and representative of the Saxon Ministry Ms Gundula Thomas at the beginning of the conference. The present dioxin crisis and the draft of regulation on food labelling were discussed during this meeting.
The project will last four months, the final conference, at which results will be evaluated, will be held in Meissen in the end of April. The project budget amounts to almost 53 thousand EUR, out of which 85 % are reimbursed by the European Fund for Regional Development.
For the Czech Agriculture and Food Inspection Authority, it is already the third project of cross-border cooperation so far. At the turn of 2005 a 2006, similar exchange visits were carried out in cooperation with Austria and in the first half of 2009, also with Slovakia. The Authority carries on using resources from the European funds and intends to implement similar projects of cross-border cooperation also with the Free State of Bavaria and Poland. The operation programmes of cross-border cooperation enable thus CAFIA to experience functioning of bodies with the same or similar responsibilities in the neighbouring countries and establish contacts that can be used in the future.
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