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Under the Patronnage of

Her Royal Highness Princess Alia Bent Al Hussein

Workshop on food safety

AGR 42380

organised in co-operation withthe Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of

Planning and International Cooperation

Venue:Ramada Hotel And Suites****

28 Abdullah Bin Omar St.

Amman (Jordan),29-30 November 2010

For more information on TAIEX assistance and to download presentations of

this event, please go to: http://ec.europa.eu/enlargement/taiex.

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Aim of the meeting:

The workshop will provide an overview of EU legislation on food safety and its

implementation. The international dimension of food safety will be addressed as wellas the "farm to fork approach" and hygiene rules. On Day II, EU control rules, rules

for specific foodstuffs and the Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) will

be discussed. There will also be an introduction to the "Better Training for Safer

Food" Programme of the European Commission.

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Day I : Monday 29 November 2010

Chair: Wolf-Martin Maier

08:30 Registration

09:00 Opening

Representative of the Delegation of the European Commission

General Director of the Jordanian Food & Drug Administration

His Excellency the Minister of Agriculture

Section 1: International Dimension of food safety

09:30 EU legislation on food safety - general overview

Wolf-Martin Maier (Directorate-General Health and Consumers,European Commission)

10:00 Coffee break

10:30 Food safety standards in Jordan

Mohammed Al Khraishi (Food and Drug Administration, Jordan)

10:50 Food safety standards in Egypt

Expert from Egypt

11:10 Food safety standards in the Occupied Palestinian Territory

Expert from the OPT

Section 1: "Farm to fork approach"

11:30 EU food safety legislation "farm to fork approach"

Wolf-Martin Maier (Directorate-General Health and Consumers,European Commission)

12:00 Lunch break

13:30 Risk analysis (Art. 6 Reg. 178/2002)

Yves Opsomer (Federal Agency for the Safety of the Food Chain, Belgium)

14:00 Responsibilities and traceability (Art. 17, 18 Reg. 178/2002)

Jaana Elo (Food Safety Authority, Finland)

14:30 Coffee break

Section 2: EU hygiene rules

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15:00 Principles of HACCP

Blanka Slosarova (Department of Food Control of Non-animal Origin,Slovak Republic)

15:30 Hygiene rules for food of animal origin

Conrad Maas (Regierungsprsidium Tbingen, Germany)

16:00 Panel discussion

17:00 End of day I

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Day II : Tuesday 30 November 2010

Chair: Raymond Ellard

08:30 Registration

Section 3: EU control rules

09:00 EU legislation on official controls

Ron Dwinger (Voedsel en Warenautoriteit, The Netherlands)

09:30 EU legislation on official controls for products of animal origin

Alessandro Baiguini (ASUR Marche, Italy)

10:00 EU legislation on controls at border inspection posts

Anton Bartl (Federal Ministry of Health, Austria)

11:00 Coffee break

Section 4: Complementary legislation

11:30 Specific rules (food additives, novel food, food contact material,

GMOs)

Yves Opsomer (Federal Agency for the Safety of the Food Chain, Belgium)

Section 5: RASFF

12:00 Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF)

Raymond Ellard (Food Safety Authority, Ireland)

Questions and Answers

12:30 Q&A session with all speakers

13:00 Lunch

Section 6: EU third country listings

14:00 EU third country listings

Wolf-Martin Maier (Directorate-General Health and Consumers,

European Commission)

Section 7: BTSF and conclusions

14:30 Better Training for Safer Food

Wolf-Martin Maier (Directorate-General Health and Consumers,

European Commission)

15:00 Panel discussion and conclusions

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16:00 End of workshop

This meeting is being organised by theTechnical Assistance Information Exchange Instrument

of the European Commission

CHAR 03/149, B - 1049 BrusselsTelephone: +32-2-296 73 07, Fax: +32-2-296 76 94

Web site http://taiex.ec.europa.eu/

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