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Project of cross-border cooperation with Bavaria in the field of food inspection was launched by CAFIA in Plzeň
03/14/2013
The initial conference to the project of cross-border cooperation of the Czech Agriculture and Food Inspection Authority and the Bavarian State Ministry for Environment and Health was held in Plzeň on 7 March 2013. CAFIA will be represented by its inspectorates in Plzeň and Tábor and besides the Bavarian ministry, also supervisory bodies subordinate to the Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority will be 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 Bavaria in the field of official food inspection. Exchange visits of employees at both partnership organisations are the main contents of the project.
In total 20 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 an opportunity to see with their own eyes how their duties are carried out 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.
The top representatives of both partners agreed on the fact that establishing a joint base for co-operation in the field of food inspections in the cross-border region is one of the priorities for both of them. Agreement on long-term co-operation between the Czech and Bavarian supervisory bodies was also signed in the course of the conference.
The project will last about four months. Its results will be evaluated at the final conference. The project budget amounts to almost 70 thousand EUR, out of which 85 % are reimbursed to the Czech side by the European Fund for Regional Development and 70 % are reimbursed to the Bavarian side.
For the Czech Agriculture and Food Inspection Authority, it is already the fourth project of cross-border cooperation so far. At the turn of 2005 a 2006, similar exchange visits were carried out in cooperation with Austria, in the first half of 2009, then with Slovakia, and in the first half of 2011 with the Free State of Saxony. 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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