Annual Report 2001
02/01/2002
BSE - bovine spongiform encephalopathy ("mad cows disease")
Codex Alimentarius - Codex Alimentarius Commision (The International Commission for Coordination of Standards and Regulations for the Production, Trade and Food Control)
CAI - Czech Accreditation Institute
CSN EN - Czech national standard, respecting European standards
CAFIA - Czech Agriculture and Food Inspection Authority
DNS - desoxyribonucleic acid
EN - European Standard
EC - European Community
EU - European Union
FAO - Food and Agriculture Oraganization of UN
FAPAS - The Food Analysis Performance Assessment Scheme
FEPAS - The Food Evaluation Performance Assessment Scheme
FLEP - Food Law Enforcement Practitioners
FSA - Food Standart Agency
FSAI - Food Safety Authority of Ireland
GMO - genetically modified organisms
GOSKOMSANEPIDNADZOR - State Committee for Sanitary and Epidemiological Surveillance of the Russian Federation
GOSSTANDART
GOST R - Russian National Standard
CHEK - Chemische Kwaliteitsborging (The system of laboratory proficiency testing organised by the Dutch Food Inspection Service)
IAFD - Irish Agri-Food Development (a company organising Phare project on CAFIA personnel training)
IS - Information system
IVVM - The Institute for Public Opinion Survey
MATRA - a financial program of the Dutch government assisting the candidate countries to establish institutions in public sector
ILPT - inter-laboratory proficiency testing
OECD - Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
PCR - polymerace chain reaction
PHARE - the EU financial program assisting the candidate countries in the preparation for integration into EU
QUID Thematic Network (QUID - Quantitative Ingredient Declaration), the European network of laboratories enforcing Directive 79/112/EEC on the quantitative ingredient declaration in practice
SPPI- the Slovak Agricultural and Food Inspection Service
SZPI - The State Agricultural and Food Inspection Service (a proposal of a new CAFIA name)
TAIEX - Technical Assisstance Information Exchange Office - - the institution established by the European Commission for the purpose of providing assistance to the countries of Central and Eastern Europe in the preparation of their integration into EU
TNK - Technical Committee for Standardisation
ÚNMZ - Office of Technical Standardisation, Metrology and Official Testing
Government Decree No. 410/2000 - defining a system of language examinations and the system of language skills verification in the selected public service staff
Government Decree No. 1028/2001 - defining a method of preparation of staff working in public authorities
WHO - World Health Organization |