Foodlaw-Reading Dr David Jukes, The University of Reading, UK
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Food Law News - EU - 2022

Commission News Item, 15 July 2022

OFFICIAL CONTROLS - Health and food audits and analysis - Programme 2022, July to December released

Commission publication: Health and food audits and analysis Programme July to December 2022 A copy of this document is available on this site (click on image).

This document sets out the work programme of the European Commission's Directorate for Health and food audits and analysis for the second half of 2022.

The following is the Introduction taken from the publication:

Introduction

The Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety of the European Commission develops and implements the Commission’s policies on food safety and public health. Its Directorate for Health and food audits and analysis dedicates most of its resources to Commission controls. These monitor the implementation and enforcement of European Union (EU) legislation in the policy areas of food and feed safety, animal health, animal welfare, plant health, EU quality standards (the Food domain), and in certain areas of human health protection (the Health domain).

The Directorate-General published the Health and food audits and analysis work programme 2022 on the European Commission’s website at: https://ec.europa.eu/food/horizontal-topics/official-controls-andenforcement/health-and-food-audits-and-analysis/work_en. This provides the priorities for Commission controls in 2021-2025 and the detailed activities planned for 2022.

The present document updates the detailed control programme for the second half of 2022. It takes account of changes that have become necessary as the year progressed. These changes result from the reprioritisation of controls and resources in order to better contribute to the Commissioner’s mandate. Some of the planned controls affected by these changes have been postponed to 2023. A limited number of third countries shown as “to be confirmed” in the published work programme 2022 are named in this update.

Annexes 1 to 3 provide the lists of audits and similar controls planned from July to December 2022 per country:

• Annex 1 relates to Member States,
• Annex 2 relates to candidate countries and
• Annex 3 to third countries.

For the previous news item on this topic, see:

• 1 December 2021 OFFICIAL CONTROLS - Commission publishes its Health and Food Audits and Analysis Programme for 2022